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Jean apologizes for Canada’s role in Rwanda

By Editor - April 21st, 2010

Jean apologizes for Canada’s role in Rwanda

Governor-General Michaëlle Jean formally apologized to Rwandans for Canada’s role as part of the international community that failed to act “soon enough” to prevent the 1994 genocide. Declaring the genocide was made possible by the “indifference and inaction of the international community,” Jean said “Canada acknowledges and takes responsibility as part of the international community for not having responded soon enough to what was happening here.”