Rwanda: the François-Mitterrand Institute asks Emmanuel Macron to "remove ambiguity" on his position
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din
The François-Mitterrand Institute denounced, Monday April 8, a “hazardous communication” from the Elysée on the question of France’s role in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, when the socialist president (1981-1995) was in power. He asks Emmanuel Macron to “remove ambiguity” on its position.
In a video broadcast on Sunday (repeated in particular by AFP on Youtube) on the occasion of commemorations around the genocide of the Tutsis, which occurred 30 years ago, which left at least 800,000 dead, the French president said “assume everything and exactly” the speech delivered on May 27, 2021 in Kigali, in which he recognized the “responsibility” of France in the massacres. However, the Elysée had seemed to go beyond a few days earlier: the head of state believes that France “could have stopped the genocide (…) with its Western and African allies”but “did not have the will”the French presidency reported on Thursday.
These words, then interpreted as a further step in the recognition of France’s responsibilities in the genocide, were not used on Sunday by Emmanuel Macron. “The absence of a clear denial” East “likely to create confusion about the president’s position”, estimated Jean Glavany, former socialist minister who heads the François-Mitterrand Institute. The international community “let us all down” during the genocide of the Tutsis, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Sunday.
“If, as his advisors report, the President of the Republic judges that France, with its allies, could have stopped the genocide but did not have the will, we urge him to answer the following questions “explained the Institute. “What more or better could France have done? Is it deliberately ignoring the desire of François Mitterrand and Edouard Balladur to engage it, even alone, in a humanitarian operation aimed at saving lives, as well as than the efforts that Alain Juppé made in May and June 1994 to obtain the vote of the Security Council?”questions Jean Glavany in particular.
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