Rwandan genocide investigation calls for trials for French leaders
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France has been accused of playing an active part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Our Africa correspondent, Andrew Geoghegan, reports an investigation commissioned by the Rwandan government calls for senior French officials to be put on trial.
The Rwandan genocide left around 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.
A report released by the government accuses France of direct involvement in the killings and of supporting the Hutu leaders who instigated the slaughter.
The report names the late French president, Francois Mitterrand, and former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin and Edouard Balladur as being complicit in the genocide.
The investigation found 33 French political and military officials should be prosecuted.
The French government has repeatedly denied any involvement in the atrocities although it has admitted that political mistakes were made at the time.
