Speaking at the genocide memorial in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, President Macron said France had not heeded warnings of impending carnage and had for too long “valued silence over examination of the truth.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame praised his speech, describing it as something more valuable than an apology
In March, a French expert commission found that France under the late President François Mitterrand had borne “heavy and overwhelming responsibility” for the genocide, but had not been complicit.
