Report on France’s Role in Rwanda’s Genocide Fails to Lay to Rest a Dark Past

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron will reportedly visit Kigali in coming weeks, following a report he commissioned which sheds a harsh light on France’s alleged role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.

If Macron hoped the report would put the controversy over French actions to rest, it now seems to be doing the opposite. Sounds of a Paris ceremony a few years ago, commemorating a new memorial to the roughly 800,000 victims of Rwanda’s genocide. The memorial wasn’t enough to end a dark chapter in French-Rwandan relations. Today, it’s uncertain whether a new report by French historians can do so either.