There’s an incendiary report out of Rwanda that accuses — and recommends trial for — some top French officials in the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Rwandans were slain. More:

“A report commissioned by the Rwandan government named 33 senior French military and political figures, among them Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister, and Francois Mitterrand the late former president, who it said should be prosecuted.


It also accused French troops of directly taking part in the slaughter.


‘The French support was of a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature,’ the report said.


‘Considering the gravity of the alleged facts, the Rwandan government asks competent authorities to undertake all necessary actions to bring the accused French political and military leaders to answer for their acts before justice.’


Andrew Tusabe, the acting charge d’affaires for the Rwandan embassy in Washington, told Al Jazeera the report exposed French complicity at the highest levels.


‘If you go to the report you will see for yourself how communication was done from the top leadership in Paris to the embassy in Kigali and how different people who had a role in the genocide were housed at the embassy residence,’ he said.


…Along with Mitterrand and de Villepin, others listed include Alain Juppe, a former foreign minister who is also a senior figure in the party of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Edouard Balladur, a former prime minister. Another suspect is Hubert Vedrine who, like Balladur, is a senior politician.”

Now, there is no love lost between France and Rwanda: The two countries haven’t had relations since 2006. France, which has previously denied aiding or training Hutus who perpetrated the genocide, says it will have a response after plowing through the report, which weighs in at about 500 pages. The BBC reports that Rwanda has kept the report under wraps since November, and that two years of investigation went into the document.

At least one prominent wanted figure in the genocide, former United Nations Development Programme official Callixte Mbarushimana, found haven in France after 1994. He was arrested this June by German officials on his way from Frankfurt to St. Petersburg.