Quotes about the Rwandan Genocide
Sunday May 13, 2007
"Rwanda is clinically dead as a nation."
Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1994.
In 1994 approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death in a carefully organized program of genocide. It continues to be a controversial event because of the apparent indifference of the international community to the plight of the Tutsi. The latest twist is the accusation (reported by BBC News) by a French investigative judge, Jean Louis Bruguiere, that the ethnic Tutsi rebel leader at the time, Paul Kagame, was responsible for the shooting down of the plane carrying the then president of Rwanda in April 1994. This event was the "catalyst for the genocide". Read news report and more quotes on the Rwandan Genocide...
Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1994.
In 1994 approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death in a carefully organized program of genocide. It continues to be a controversial event because of the apparent indifference of the international community to the plight of the Tutsi. The latest twist is the accusation (reported by BBC News) by a French investigative judge, Jean Louis Bruguiere, that the ethnic Tutsi rebel leader at the time, Paul Kagame, was responsible for the shooting down of the plane carrying the then president of Rwanda in April 1994. This event was the "catalyst for the genocide". Read news report and more quotes on the Rwandan Genocide...
Comments
i am a 14 yr. old freshman in my cultural studies class wondering about this genocide.
why did they telivise it?
they don’t televise events in iraq now, so why a genocide then?
I’m not an expert in the field, but I think it was televised simply because they had cameras. Remember, the UN was a prominent force in the genocide thereby creating a safe place where journalists could film and report on the happenings. I don’t think its the same in Iraq, there aren’t lots of foreign journalists so there isn’t a lot of good footage to show.
I’m not sure if your British or American. However, in America the Rwanda genocide wasn’t televised hardly at all. I am doing a project on the genocide and the only sources I can find are from British Authors or from BBC News. Also, when they did televise it, it was just little clips, it was never a top news story.