Kagame the winner as Macron gives genocide speech in Rwanda

French president says his country bears a responsibility in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, but was not complicit

France bears a terrible responsibility" for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, President Emmanuel Macron has said in a long-anticipated speech in Kigali, the capital of the east African country.

Speaking at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where 250,000 victims of the massacres are buried, Macron said that France had not been complicit in the tragedy but had made errors of judgement that had appalling consequences.