Macro visits Rwanda: Denoncon's role in the 1994 genocide

Those words he uttered in a long-awaited speech in Kigali, the capital of the East African state.

Speaking at the Genocide Memorial, where 250 thousand victims of the massacre have been buried, Macron said France had not been an accomplice in tragedy but had made mistakes in assessment that caused terrifying conspiracy.

“By engaging... in a conflict in which there was no experience, France failed to heed warnings and overestimated its ability to prevent something happening,” said Macron, follows Periscope.

“France did not understand that, in its efforts to prevent a regional conflict or civil war, it was in fact supporting a genocide regime. Ignoring the warnings of many observors, France took on terrible responsibilities in the chain of events that resulted in the worst possible consequences, even though it was trying to avoid it. ”

Macroni's visit is the first of a 2010 French leader in Kigali, who has long accused France of co-operating in the killing of about 800 thousand Tutsi Rwandans.

French troops had led a military-humanised intervention called “Operation Breshka” launched by Paris under the UN's mandate between June and August 1994, but critics have said it was intended to support the Hutou government, which was responsible for genocide.

The visit is symbolic and tries to remove three decades of diplomatic tensions for France's role in genocide. /Periscope