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Erdogan blames France for Rwandan genocide

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused France on Wednesday of being responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in which hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in 1994.

"It's obvious who killed 800,000 people in Rwanda 25 years ago, it's France," Erdogan stated, adding: "Those who stir trouble with so-called Armenian genocide allegations, particularly France, have no concern with truth."

A 2017 report by Washington DC-based law firm Cunningham Levy claimed French officials were complicit in the genocide against the Tutsi minority in Rwanda by supplying weapons to the Hutu majority government. The report was commissioned by the government of Rwanda.

Meanwhile, France is marking its first national commemoration of the Armenian genocide today, which was one of President Emmanuel Macron's election promises.

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