France opens important archives on the period of the Rwandan genocide

When the report on France's role in the Tutsi genocide was submitted at the end of March.

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LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP

France opened to the general public on Wednesday important archives relating to the situation in Rwanda between 1990 and 1994, twenty-seven years to the day after the start of the genocide of the Tutsis in that country, according to a publication in the

Official Journal

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These are the archives of former President François Mitterrand as well as those of his then Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, to which a commission of historians had access to produce a report pointing out at the end of March the responsibilities of France in Rwanda over this period.

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