Kigali, Rwanda
The Rwandan government said this week it was setting up a commission to investigate whether France was complicit in the Rwandan genocide. In 1994, some 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were hacked to death by thousands of machete-wielding Hutus. Many in the current Rwandan government say that the French knowingly armed the killers and provided them with safe passage out of the country after the massacre. France insists that it did not abet genocide, although it has admitted to supporting the hard-line Hutu-led government that was in charge during the early 1990s. In 1998, a French parliamentary inquiry cleared Paris of responsibility for the genocide.
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