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Committing genocide by words alone?(Insider Report)
The UN's ad hoc war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has convicted three Rwandan news media executives of genocide, sentencing two of them to life in prison and a third to a term of 27 years. "The power of the media to create and destroy human values comes with great responsibility," asserted the UN tribunal in its December 3 ruling. "Those who control the media are accountable for its consequences."
Two of the defendants, Ferdinand Nahimana and Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, were founders of the RTLM radio station, which became notorious for inciting Hutu mobs against Tutsis during the mass killings of 1994. The third was newspaper executive Hassan Ngezc, who likewise was accused of actively inciting Hutus to acts of mass murder.
"In 100 days, an estimated 10 percent of the Tutsis in Rwanda were wiped out, along with many moderates among the Hutus, who make up a majority of the population," recalled the December 3 New York Times. "The efficiency of the killers, who chased down the Tutsis at roadblocks and in the streets with sharpened sticks, nail-studded clubs and grenades, surpassed even that of the Nazis, some historians contend."
Prosecutor Stephen Rapp hailed the ...
- Rwandan Tutsis Push To Control UN Zone
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Elizabeth D. Wise September 7, 1994 700+ words
...civilians from Rwanda's Tutsi minority. But there...the country, and UN officials worry that...camp as part of a UN effort to separate...return home. The new Tutsi-led government...negotiations with the Tutsi-led government in...leaders of Zaire. The UN plan to shift the...
- Death shadows Africa's Great Lakes. (Hutus and Tutsis)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 19, 1996 700+ words
...skinned. So are the UN workers supervising the...flashy watches. All are Tutsis. Some carry switches...fear and loathing. The UN says it makes no distinctions...these days, you hire Tutsis. The divide has become...difference between Hutu and Tutsi stereotypes. Line up...
- The "Jews" of Africa; The Tutsis.(The Tutsis of central Africa)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 21, 2004 700+ words
...were mostly Congolese Tutsis. The Great Lakes region...16th, Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, called for the UN peacekeeping force in...Hutus have massacred Tutsis and vice versa in 1959...it. The stereotypical Tutsi looks like Rwanda's...
- Refugees flee advancing Tutsi force
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times TONY SMITH November 3, 1996 700+ words
...the path of advancing Tutsi rebels join the refugee...into Uganda this week, UN officials said. Moumtzis...spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for...scurrying through. Zaire's Tutsi insurgency began last...slaughtered about 500,000 Tutsis, then fled to Zaire when...
- Tutsis and Hutus: more blood to come. (ethnic tensions in Rwanda and Burundi)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 22, 1995 700+ words
...driven from power by the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic...shops taken over by Tutsis who came back from exile...Rwandan army waits. UN officials expect it...to the army and the Tutsi Uprona party, which--though Tutsis are a minority in Burundi...
- Burundi on the brink.(ethnic warfare between Tutsis and Hutus)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 8, 1995 700+ words
...underclass by a succession of Tutsi dictators since independence...massacres by Hutus, a Tutsi-led rebel invasion...to Tanzania and Zaire. Tutsi politicians see safety...lead to clashes. The Tutsis are outnumbered. In refusing...class," says a senior UN man. "They're devious...
- The art of death: Rwanda. (massacre of members of the minority Tutsi tribe)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 28, 1994 700+ words
...means of identifying Tutsis for murder later on. "The Tutsis did not go, and those...death list," says a UN consultant until recently...marking of "Hutu" or "Tutsi" in pass books. Quantities...protect the minority [Tutsis] for 15 years. But...
- Tutsi-led army takes over government in Burundi
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times STEFAN LOVGREN July 25, 1996 700+ words
...Civil war between Tutsis and Hutus has ripped...of 6 million, and Tutsis make up 14 percent...Rwanda, most of them Tutsis, in 1994. The army named a former Tutsi military ruler, Pierre...two ethnic groups. UN Secretary-General...
Source: HighBeam Research, Committing genocide by words alone?(Insider Report)