France opens to the public important archives on the period of the Tutsi genocide



During the submission of the report on France’s role in the genocide of the Tutsis, at the end of March. – 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 Tutsis in that country, according to a publication in the Official newspaper.

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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