Editing François Mitterrand (section)

===Rwanda===
{{Further|Role of France in the Rwandan genocide}}

Paris assisted [[Rwanda]]'s president [[Juvénal Habyarimana]], who was assassinated on 6 April 1994 while travelling in a [[Dassault]] [[Falcon 50]] given to him as a personal gift of François Mitterrand. Through the offices of the 'Cellule Africaine', a Presidential office headed by François Mitterrand's son, [[Jean-Christophe Mitterrand]], he provided the Hutu regime with financial and military support in the early 1990s. With French assistance, the Rwandan army grew from a force of 9,000 men in October 1990 to 28,000 in 1991. France also provided training staff, experts and massive quantities of weaponry and facilitated arms contracts with Egypt and South Africa. It also financed, armed and trained Habyrimana's Presidential Guard. French troops were deployed under [[Opération Turquoise]], a military operation carried out under a United Nations (UN) mandate. The operation is currently the object of political and historical debate.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}