Never underestimate the mass media, and the effect it has on your population.
The majority of the killing was done with non-firearms btw.
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Rwandans jailed for 'Hate Media'
Three Rwandan media executives have been found guilty of inciting violence during the genocide of 1994.
Two worked for a radio station which broadcast lists of people to be killed and revealed where they could be found. The three were given long jail terms.
"Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians," said the international court judge.
About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in just 100 days.
Ferdinand Nahimana, who was sentenced to life in prison, and Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, who got 35 years, helped set up a private radio station - Radio Television Libres des Mille Collines (RTLM) - which urged Hutus to "exterminate the cockroaches".
"Nahimana chose a path of genocide and betrayed the trust placed in him as an intellectual and a leader," said Judge Navanathem Pillay.
Hassan Ngeze, who was sentenced to life, was the editor of an extremist magazine called Kangura.
Judge Pillay told him he had "poisoned the minds of your readers" against Tutsis.
'Free speech'
They were all found guilty of genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in the Tanzanian town of Arusha.
The BBC East Africa correspondent, Christian Fraser, says the power of the radio in a poor country with low literacy rates cannot be overstated.
He says that during the genocide, those manning the roadblocks where Tutsis were stopped and slaughtered, were often listening to radios.
Barayagwiza boycotted the trial, saying it would not be fair.
Defence lawyers for the others had argued that the trial was an attack on free speech and the freedom of the press.
Reduced sentence
Nahimana and Barayagwiza were arrested in Cameroon in March 1996 and Mr Ngeze in Kenya in July 1997
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3288267.stm
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If memory serves me correctly.
When the Belgians ran the place during the colonial era the population was divided into two groups.
One group who had 2 cows or more, and the other group who did not.
They were designated as hutus or tutsis.
Which makes what I posted have even less relevance than before.
'Cos it sort of made sense until I said that.
Now It just sounds stupid.
Sort of like if I was an Christian and you were an Islamic two cows dude.
And I chopped your family to pieces 'cos of that.
The Human Race.
Technologically, very advanced.
Psychologically, a bit flipping dim.
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I've just thought of a book title about the human race on planet earth.
The water droplet monkeys.
[This message was edited by eek on December 03, 2003 at 07:46 PM.]
The majority of the killing was done with non-firearms btw.
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Rwandans jailed for 'Hate Media'
Three Rwandan media executives have been found guilty of inciting violence during the genocide of 1994.
Two worked for a radio station which broadcast lists of people to be killed and revealed where they could be found. The three were given long jail terms.
"Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians," said the international court judge.
About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in just 100 days.
Ferdinand Nahimana, who was sentenced to life in prison, and Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, who got 35 years, helped set up a private radio station - Radio Television Libres des Mille Collines (RTLM) - which urged Hutus to "exterminate the cockroaches".
"Nahimana chose a path of genocide and betrayed the trust placed in him as an intellectual and a leader," said Judge Navanathem Pillay.
Hassan Ngeze, who was sentenced to life, was the editor of an extremist magazine called Kangura.
Judge Pillay told him he had "poisoned the minds of your readers" against Tutsis.
'Free speech'
They were all found guilty of genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in the Tanzanian town of Arusha.
The BBC East Africa correspondent, Christian Fraser, says the power of the radio in a poor country with low literacy rates cannot be overstated.
He says that during the genocide, those manning the roadblocks where Tutsis were stopped and slaughtered, were often listening to radios.
Barayagwiza boycotted the trial, saying it would not be fair.
Defence lawyers for the others had argued that the trial was an attack on free speech and the freedom of the press.
Reduced sentence
Nahimana and Barayagwiza were arrested in Cameroon in March 1996 and Mr Ngeze in Kenya in July 1997
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3288267.stm
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If memory serves me correctly.
When the Belgians ran the place during the colonial era the population was divided into two groups.
One group who had 2 cows or more, and the other group who did not.
They were designated as hutus or tutsis.
Which makes what I posted have even less relevance than before.
'Cos it sort of made sense until I said that.
Now It just sounds stupid.
Sort of like if I was an Christian and you were an Islamic two cows dude.
And I chopped your family to pieces 'cos of that.
The Human Race.
Technologically, very advanced.
Psychologically, a bit flipping dim.
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I've just thought of a book title about the human race on planet earth.
The water droplet monkeys.
[This message was edited by eek on December 03, 2003 at 07:46 PM.]
