The idea of comparable wrongs quickly took hold. On 13 April 1994, a week after the genocide of the Tutsi began, at a ministerial meeting in Paris, the head of the French armed forces, Admiral Jacques Lanxade, asked by President François Mitterrand about massacres in Rwanda, had replied, ‘They are already considerable. But now it is the Tutsi who are massacring the Hutu in Kigali.’
