Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says France should should be tried for genocide

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has responded to hints by French investigators to reopen investigations into the death of former leader Juvenal Habyarimana.

The downing of Mr Habyarimana’s plane over two decades back helped trigger the genocide in which hundreds of thousands mainly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

Habyarimana was the third president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his death in 1994. Kagame was at a time leader of a rebel group. He has maintained that he does not have a hand in the shooting down of the plane.

Kagame however insists that it is France that needs to be standing trial with relation to the Rwandan genocide. He added that the judicial system of his country was not subordinate to that of the French.

“After investigating the case for 2 years,not finding anything,they want to start all over again. I have no problem with that, If starting all over again is a show down, then we will have a show down.

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