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NEWS & LETTERS, May 2002
Column: Our Life and Times by Kevin A. Barry
Tribunal prosecutes Rwandan genocide
The International Criminal
Court in Arusha, Tanzania continues to prosecute perpetrators of the Rwandan
genocide. Currently, radio broadcaster Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza and other media
personalities are before the court, charged with incitement to genocide for
their role in the 1994 massacre of 800,000 people, mainly from the Tutsi
minority. Barayagwiza and others referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches,"
stating "we will kill you," while also broadcasting names and
locations. Despite the bureaucratic problems that have plagued the Arusha Tribunal—for example, a trial of three top military officers began one day in April but was abruptly adjourned the next day—its actions are historic. They have not received adequate coverage in the Eurocentric global media. Nor has the precedent of trying propagandists of genocide been applied to the former Yugoslavia, where intellectual instigators of Serbian genocide, such as the philosopher Mihailo Markovic, have yet to be investigated, let alone tried. |
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