The French president has asked Rwandans to forgive his country for its role in the 1994 genocide.
But he stopped short of an outright apology.
Speaking at a memorial where 250,000 victims are buried, Emmanuel Macron says while France was not directly complicit, it backed a genocidal regime.
Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Kigali, Rwanda.
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But he stopped short of an outright apology.
Speaking at a memorial where 250,000 victims are buried, Emmanuel Macron says while France was not directly complicit, it backed a genocidal regime.
Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Kigali, Rwanda.
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