Paris should face up to the past

"The French have still not honestly faced up to their policy of injustice in Africa", writes the left-wing newspaper die tageszeitung. "Rwanda continues to be taboo in Paris. At best you hear talk of 'errors', which is roughly comparable to Radovan Karadžić calling the massacre in Srebrenica a slip-up. Even today the officials in Paris would prefer to be rid of the report by simply ignoring it, instead of facing up to the facts. The people in Rwanda, whether victims or perpetrators, deserve more. They want to know why their country went through an apocalypse. The [Rwandan] report provides a positive example. Now those named in it should face up to the past in an honest manner."

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