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Court weighs survivors' claim that French troops stood by during Rwanda genocide

The entrance to the Bisesero Genocide Memorial, in Bisesero, western Rwanda, on 2 December 2020. The area was the site of a massacre in June 1994. © SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP

The Paris Court of Appeal has set a date to rule on whether to dismiss long-standing accusations that French troops knowingly failed to prevent a massacre in the Bisesero hills of western Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

The court this week began examining an appeal from civil parties against a 2018 decision to dismiss the case.

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