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"In such countries, genocide is not too important…"

— François Mitterrand Attributed

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Wikiquote lists this as attributed to François Mitterrand, but no primary source has been found.

Source: Comments about Rwanda attributed to President Mitterrand by Philip Gourevitch in "Reversing the Reversals of War," The New Yorker, 26 April 1999.
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