Rwandans jailed for 'Hate Media'

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/3288267.stm

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.

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.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Hannity and Limbaugh need to be tried for the same because of

their support for the Iraqi invasion and what they're trying to do re: Liberals.

Add Coulter to the list.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Hannity and Limbaugh? Or Coulter?

I wouldn't go after them as much as Murdoch and Ailes. They run Fox News. Surveys have shown that those who watch Fox are more likely to believe the lies about Iraq that the Bushies fed them.

Of course, it's all meaningless unless the real criminals are brought to trial -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolfowitz, Rice . . . .

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Heh. Good points, Jack Rabbit. n/t

[UpInArms]

2. gee, sounds like

Manthrax Coulter, Scarborough, Savage, et al

[salinen]

3. I have a bunch of rope.

3,2,1................delete.

[papau]

4. Can I be on the jury?

I promise to be unbiased, fair and balanced.

:-)

[AP]

6. "jailed for 'hate media'" sounds a ltitle mild.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these guys were charged an convicted of crimes much more serious than "hating." They were quarterbacking the death squads in a way that was clearly aiding and abetting/accomplice liability. Correct me if I'm wrong.