According to BBC, the report was presented yesterday, two years, after the delegation of 13 historians started reviewing archives on France, Rwanda relations between 1990 and 1994. <\/p>\n
The expert commission presented the report to French President Emmanuel Macron. The report said France had been “blind” to genocide preparations.<\/p>\n
The team studied French official files.<\/p>\n
Rwanda, which has long accused France of complicity, said it welcomed the report.<\/p>\n
The Government said it “represents an important step toward a common understanding of France’s role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi”.<\/p>\n
The report blames the then French President, Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, for a “failure” of policy towards Rwanda in 1994. The findings are being made public after years of French official secrecy over links to the Government led by Juvenal Habyarimana. <\/p>\n
President Macron appointed the 15-member commission two years ago, giving them access to presidential, diplomatic, military and intelligence archives.<\/p>\n
Among the archives are those of Mitterrand, who had close ties to former Rwandan President Juv\u00e9nal Habyarimana. <\/p>\n
The commission members include experts on the Holocaust, on the massacres of Armenians in World War I and on international criminal law. They are led by historian Vincent Duclert.<\/p>\n
In 2015, then-President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande announced that the Rwanda archives would be declassified but two years later, after a researcher sought permission to study them, France’s Constitutional Council ruled that they should remain secret.<\/p>\n
The Government of Rwanda said it would soon release its own report, “the conclusions of which will complement and enrich those of the Duclert Commission”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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