Kagame warns of ‘showdown’ over France genocide remarks
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has scoffed at French investigators’ bid to reopen their probe into the 1994 assassination of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. PHOTO|FILE
What you need to know:
In April 6, 1994, a French-crewed plane carrying Habyarimana was shot down by a missile. His assassination ignited ethnic tensions and helped spark the Rwandan genocide in which about 1 million people were killed in 100 days. In 2006, French investigators implicated several Rwandan officials and issued arrest warrants for several army officers, prompting a diplomatic row, in which Rwanda cut off its diplomatic ties with France that year.
