Rwanda Prepares to Charge Senior French Officials for Crimes in 1994 Genocide

"As a result of the publication of the “Mucyo Commission” report detailing the complicity and active participation of France in the 1994 genocide, Rwanda is preparing to initiate criminal charges against senior French civilian and military officials who served in the administration of former president François Mitterand. A Focus Media report says that an anonymous Rwanda administration official said that the process to file charges against senior members of the Mitterrand administration has already started. Much of the basis of the charges are in the Mucyo Commission report which became public on August 5, 2008. Jean de Dieu Mucyo, the former justice minister, headed the commission that investigated France’s role in the genocide...[more]"