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18 Apr 13
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Some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militias in just 100 days in 1994.
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Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed.
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The Rwandan government has urged the relevant authorities to bring the accused French politicians and military officials to justice
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The two countries have had a frosty relationship since 2006 when a French judge implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the downing in 1994 of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane - an event widely seen as triggering the killings.
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President Kagame has always denied the charge.
He says Mr Habyarimana, a Hutu, was killed by Hutu extremists who then blamed the incident on Tutsi rebels to provide the pretext for the genocide.
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08 Aug 08
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05 Aug 08
Matthew Elliot""French forces directly assassinated Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis... French forces committed several rapes on Tutsi survivors," said a statement from the justice ministry cited by AFP news agency.
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