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France holds up mirror in Rwanda genocide trial

By Jamey Keaten
Published February 3, 2014 8:50pm ET
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France holds up mirror in Rwanda genocide trial
FILE - In this April 6, 2004 file photo, Apollan Odetta, a survivor from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide light candles at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda. Two decades after the Rwandan genocide, France is finally opening what critics called its blind eye to justice over the killings. On Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014, a wheelchair-bound Rwandan former intelligence chief appears in Paris court for an expected seven-week trial to face charges of complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File) | Sayyid Azim

PARIS (AP) — Through a ground-breaking trial, France is at last coming to terms with its much-criticized response to Rwanda’s genocide.

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