Editor,

Les faits sont vraiment têtus, or when France's future refuses to carry the unbearably abominable legacy of close involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that their elders are so desperate to pass on to them.

No matter the amount of effort they put into keeping the sordid truth from bursting out from behind the high dam of denial and libel against their victims they have erected with considerable state resources, theirs is a losing war. Sooner rather than later the truth will come out.

And this rogues' gallery of genocide enablers and deniers will find that it avails them very little protection to try to hold France's honour and good name hostage as a shield against their personal liability for their role in the Genocide.

These young French people's statement is the damaging first crack in that dam of denial.

Mwene Kalinda, Rwanda

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