Rwanda genocide report exonerates Paul Kagame
(Reuters) A French investigation into the causes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has exonerated the president, Paul Kagame, and his Tutsi allies after Paris had previously accused him of triggering the killings of 800,000 people in 100 days.
Diplomatic relations between Rwanda and France were broken off in 2006 when a French judge said that Kagame the rebel leader at the time of the killings had orchestrated the assassination of the Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, to trigger the bloodshed.
After Habyarimana's plane was shot down, Hutu extremists slaughtered Tutsis and moderate Hutus in some of the fastest mass killings ever perpetrated.
Kagame's Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power in the aftermath of the genocide.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/11/rwanda-genocide-report-paul-kagame