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France asks Rwanda for forgiveness over genocide
President Macron stops short of an apology about France's role in the Rwandan genocide - but asks Rwandans for forgiveness.
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Rwandans to forgive France for its role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.
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(Photo: President Macron laid a wreath in Kigali. Credit: AFP)
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