{"id":4111,"date":"2010-02-25T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:05:12","slug":"sarkozy-admits-rwanda-genocide-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/sarkozy-admits-rwanda-genocide-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy admits Rwanda genocide &#8216;mistakes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sarkozy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4112\" title=\"Sarkozy admits Rwanda genocide 'mistakes' \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sarkozy.jpg\" alt=\"Sarkozy admits Rwanda genocide 'mistakes' \" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>French President Nicolas Sarkozy has acknowledged that France and the international community made &#8220;mistakes&#8221; during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But he stopped short of offering a full apology, saying he hoped those responsible would be punished.<\/p>\n<p>He made his comments during the first French presidential visit to Rwanda since the mass killings.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is intended to symbolise a commitment by both countries to move on after years of acrimony.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda accuses France of training and arming the Hutu extremists who killed some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus &#8211; a charge denied by Paris.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Mr Sarkozy visited a memorial for the victims of the genocide, accompanied by Rwandan President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>At a joint press conference, Mr Sarkozy spoke of his regrets about the sequence of events that culminated in the genocide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened here is unacceptable, but what happened here compels the international community, including France, to reflect on the mistakes that stopped it from preventing and halting this abominable crime,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy has acknowledged that France and the international community made &#8220;mistakes&#8221; during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118],"tags":[1485,709,2963,5199],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","tag-french-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-rwanda-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}