A report commissioned by the Rwandan government has concluded France bears significant responsibility for, quote, “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” close quote, that killed an estimated 800,000 people in 1994. The 600 page report alleges former French President Francois Mitterand had advance knowledge of preparations for the genocide and yet did nothing to prevent it. The French government was widely criticised at the time for not intervening during the approximately hundred days of ethnic violence in which the ruling Hutu ethnic group massacred their Tutsi compatriots.