The mandate of a Rwandan inquiry commission on France's role in the 1994 genocide was extended for a third time, commission president Jean de Dieu Mucyo said Friday. "This extension was approved by the government at the demand of the Rwandan parliament," Mucyo said of the new extension stretching until November 15.
Composed of historians and jurists, the commission is tasked with gathering proof of France's alleged implication in Rwanda's genocide that killed some 800,000 people, most of them minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The mission's mandate has already been extended twice - last October and in March.