PARIS, 28 May 2021, (TON): French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the capital, Kigali on 27 May 2021, to hold talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. During his visit he delivered a speech in which French President took responsibility for the 1994 genocide of Muslims in the central African country.

Macron highlighted how France role but admitted only to a level that France had failed the 800,000 victims of the genocide.  He said, France “was not an accomplice” in the genocide but ended up siding with Rwanda's “genocidal regime" and bore an “overwhelming responsibility” in the slide toward the massacres.

Speaking at the genocide memorial in the capital, Kigali,  where some 250,000 victims of the mass killings are buried, French President  said, “France has a role, a history and a political responsibility in Rwanda. It has a duty: That of looking history in the face and recognizing the suffering that it inflicted on the Rwandan people by favouring silence over the examination of truth for too long.” 

The acceptance of involvement provided trial in the International Court of Justice as French forces are still occupant force in Mali and many other African countries.