President Macron says France and its allies 'could have stopped' the 1994 Rwanda genocide

FILE-French President Emmanuel Macron speaks next to the visitor's book at the genocide memorial site in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 27, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies"could have stopped" the 1994 Rwanda genocide and"lacked the will to do so." Macron's office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide.

He stopped short of an apology, but Rwandan President Paul Kagame signaled that a page had been turned in France-Rwanda ties, following a series of French efforts to repair ties between the two countries.In Sunday’s video, Macron will recall that when the genocide started, “the international community had the means to know and to take actions” based on the knowledge about genocides that had been revealed by survivors of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, his office said.

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