French President Emmanuel Macron stated in Kigali that only the citizens of Rwanda can forgive France for its role in the genocide in Rwanda back in 1994
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French President Emmanuel Macron stated in Kigali that only the citizens of Rwanda can forgive France for its role in the genocide in Rwanda back in 1994
Source: RTS
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"France did not listen to those who warned it of the impending massacre in Rwanda and de facto sided with the 'genocidal regime,'" Macron said during a speech on the genocide at the Gisozi Memorial Center in Kigali, where more than 250.000 Tutsi people were buried, Reuters reports.
But France, as Macron stated, "was not an accomplice" in the genocide.
"On this journey, only those who experienced and went through that night may be able to forgive and offer us the gift of forgiveness," Macron said.
La France a un rôle, une histoire, une responsabilité politique au Rwanda. Elle a un devoir : celui de regarder l’Histoire en face et de reconnaître la part de souffrance qu’elle a infligée au peuple rwandais en faisant trop longtemps prévaloir le silence sur l’examen de vérité. pic.twitter.com/78YU5P6o9X
Upon his arrival in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, French President was welcomed by the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, according to the AP agency, adding that French President is trying to improve relations with that Central African country 27 years after the genocide.
Macron arrived in Kigali early this morning, after which he went to the presidential palace to meet with Kagame. French President then visited a Kigali Genocide Memorial that witnessed the horrific massacre of 1994, in which about 800.000 people, mostly members of the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus, who tried to protect them from Hutu extremists, lost their lives.
The visit followed the publication of a report by the French investigative commission in March, which said the colonial stance "blinded" French officials and that the government bore "serious responsibility because it did not foresee the massacre".
However, the report freed France from direct complicity in the murder of more than 800.000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who said earlier that France had participated in the genocide, said last week that the report "means a lot" to the citizens of Rwanda. The citizens of Rwanda "may not forget, but they can forgive" France for its role, said Kagame, a member of the Tutsis and a major figure on Rwanda's political scene since his rebel army ended the killings of death squads loyal to the Hutu-led government.
Macron, who tried to distance France from its colonial past, said in April that official Paris would open the archives of former President Francois Mitterrand about Rwanda, as part of efforts to better understand the role of Paris in that African country during the genocide, RTS reported.
Did genocide occur in Rwanda? Yes, it certainly did, but not the kind as claimed occurred in Srebrenica. Rwanda was real genocide in accordance to the UN charter on genocide.
While Srebrenica is a fallacy to belittle the Serbs since they made monkeys out of the US. The act of genocide means the extermination of men, women and children and that certainly did not occur in Srebrenica.
Now why do we have this western clown declaring that the French played a role in the genocide in Rwanda by remaining inactive despite being warned. Why after 27 years does Macron make this statement? Do you think its remorse and seeking a clear conscious? No, it’s not.
It’s all about Chinese influence in Africa and now we have many other former European colonial masters apologising for their behaviour and thinking their former colonial servants/slaves would take a different view and return to the fold rather than allow the Chinese to remain there.
All I can say is read what the Belgians did in the Congo during their stay there and you might get a hint of how successful this call will be. The other masters were no different.
For 75 years they ruled Congo:
“The colonial administration wielded control over the native population by imposing a regime of terror, and there were frequent mass killings and mutilations. Violence and terrorism were the means adopted to impose the will of the Belgian king and the trading agents over the African people.”
(sj, 29 May 2021 14:24)
Did genocide occur in Rwanda? Yes, it certainly did, but not the kind as claimed occurred in Srebrenica. Rwanda was real genocide in accordance to the UN charter on genocide.
While Srebrenica is a fallacy to belittle the Serbs since they made monkeys out of the US. The act of genocide means the extermination of men, women and children and that certainly did not occur in Srebrenica.
Now why do we have this western clown declaring that the French played a role in the genocide in Rwanda by remaining inactive despite being warned. Why after 27 years does Macron make this statement? Do you think its remorse and seeking a clear conscious? No, it’s not.
It’s all about Chinese influence in Africa and now we have many other former European colonial masters apologising for their behaviour and thinking their former colonial servants/slaves would take a different view and return to the fold rather than allow the Chinese to remain there.
All I can say is read what the Belgians did in the Congo during their stay there and you might get a hint of how successful this call will be. The other masters were no different.
For 75 years they ruled Congo:
“The colonial administration wielded control over the native population by imposing a regime of terror, and there were frequent mass killings and mutilations. Violence and terrorism were the means adopted to impose the will of the Belgian king and the trading agents over the African people.”
(sj, 29 May 2021 14:24)
Did genocide occur in Rwanda? Yes, it certainly did, but not the kind as claimed occurred in Srebrenica. Rwanda was real genocide in accordance to the UN charter on genocide.
While Srebrenica is a fallacy to belittle the Serbs since they made monkeys out of the US. The act of genocide means the extermination of men, women and children and that certainly did not occur in Srebrenica.
Now why do we have this western clown declaring that the French played a role in the genocide in Rwanda by remaining inactive despite being warned. Why after 27 years does Macron make this statement? Do you think its remorse and seeking a clear conscious? No, it’s not.
It’s all about Chinese influence in Africa and now we have many other former European colonial masters apologising for their behaviour and thinking their former colonial servants/slaves would take a different view and return to the fold rather than allow the Chinese to remain there.
All I can say is read what the Belgians did in the Congo during their stay there and you might get a hint of how successful this call will be. The other masters were no different.
For 75 years they ruled Congo:
“The colonial administration wielded control over the native population by imposing a regime of terror, and there were frequent mass killings and mutilations. Violence and terrorism were the means adopted to impose the will of the Belgian king and the trading agents over the African people.”
(sj, 29 May 2021 14:24)