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On May 27, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Rwanda on a state visit, during which he spoke about his country's responsibility for the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of about 800,000 Rwandans, primarily minority Tutsis. France was responsible because it backed the genocidal regime that was then in power in Rwanda and ignored warnings of the impending massacre, Macron said.Radical influencers inside Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic majority orchestrated the mass killing of minority Tutsis in 1994, following the elimination of the moderate Hutu leadership and formation of Hutu militias -- the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi. While the interim government and militia groups were instrumental in carrying out the genocide, ordinary Hutus were encouraged via radio broadcast to kill their Tutsi neighbors. An estimated 200,000 Hutu civilians participated in the mass killings, which lasted for about 100 days.Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda.France had been supportive of the Rwandan Hutu government, and also led the U.N. military mission that was deployed to reestablish peace in the country but failed to halt the violence.Macron’s visit to Rwanda followed Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s trip to Paris last week, during which Kagame spoke with France 24 and Radio France International (RFI).In the interview, after Kagame referred to a long list of genocidaires and genocide deniers" and the need to make them answer for crimes
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