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G_j

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Sat Jun 20, 2015, 10:17 AM Jun 2015

Hate on the airwaves has consequences

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3257748.stm

The impact of hate media in Rwanda

By Russell Smith
BBC News Online Africa editor

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

It is widely believed that so-called hate media had a significant part to play in the genocide, during which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.

There is also little doubt that its legacy continues to exert a strong influence on the country.

The most prominent hate media outlet was the private radio station, Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines.

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It was established in 1993 and opposed peace talks between the government of President Juvenal Habyarimana and the Tutsi-led rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which now forms the government.

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Also,
http://www.rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html
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