Rights groups press for French army probe on Rwanda genocide


  • World
  • Wednesday, 02 Dec 2015

PARIS (Reuters) - Human rights groups are demanding that French soldiers active in Rwanda in 1994 be formally put under investigation on suspicion of complicity in the genocide at that time.

More than 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed in a three-month rampage by ethnic Hutu extremists in 1994 while the world largely stood by.

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