Rwanda has formally accused senior French officials of involvement in its 1994 genocide and called for them to be put on trial.
Among those named in a report by a Rwandan investigation commission were former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and late President Francois Mitterrand.France denies any wrongdoing, and says its forces helped protect people during a U.N.-sanctioned mission in Rwanda at the time.Andrew Potter reports.SOUNDBITE: Remy Ourdan, Foreign Editor of Le Monde Newspaper saying (French): "France will have to answer charges of political complicity and supplying arms, because the charges are very concrete. This report goes further than the report of the French investigation commission of 1998. This report gives us new elements. But on the other hand the report is a bit astonishing because a lot of the crime charges against the French are based on human testimony, so the French will certainly say that testimony has been forged, because we know that Rwanda is a dictatorship regime."
