Rwanda prosecutors examine report on France



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KIGALI, August 15, 2008 (AFP) - Rwandan prosecutors are going through the 500-page government report into France's alleged complicity in the 1994 genocide to decide what, if any, action to take, their office told AFP Friday.

'We are in the process of examining the document,' chief prosecutor Martin Ngoga told AFP. 'Once this examination is finished, we will see what further action to take on the report.'

The report, published on August 5, alleges that France was aware of preparations for the genocide, contributed to planning the massacres and actively took part in the killing.

It names 13 senior politicians and 20 military officials as responsible and raises the prospect of Rwandan legal action against them.

France has already rejected the allegations as 'unacceptable'.

France's Defence Minister Herve Morin has also denounced the report, insisting that French soldiers had nothing to be ashamed of from their service in Rwanda.

Ngoga said: 'As the body responsible for prosecutions, we are concerned with the report. The document has been made public. But even if the government had not asked us to, we would naturally have looked at the report.'

The 1994 genocide in the central African nation left around 800,000 people -- mainly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus -- dead, according to the United Nations.



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