Rwanda suspends BBC broadcasts over genocide film

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Rwanda on Friday partially suspended BBC broadcasts over a controversial documentary on the central African country's leadership and the 1994 genocide.

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) said the BBC radio services in the local Kinyarwanda language would be blocked while the affair was investigated, but English and French programmes could continue.

The BBC documentary, "Rwanda's Untold Story", was broadcast earlier this month.

It highlighted growing criticism of President Paul Kagame and revived allegations that his Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) -- then a rebel group, now the ruling political party -- was behind the shooting down of a plane carrying the country's then Hutu president that triggered the genocide.

"Over the last three weeks, we have received complaints directed at the BBC. These have come from members of the public and civil society, especially genocide survivor organisations. They accuse the BBC of denying the history of 1994 genocide against the Tutsi," RURA official Beata Mukangabo told reporters.

"After reviewing the complaints, RURA has assessed that these accusations are serious enough to warrant the temporary suspension of all BBC Kinyarwanda language programmes while investigations are conducted."

"RURA will investigate the allegations of genocide denial and revisionism (and) the findings of the enquiry will determine further action to be taken," Mukangabo said.

President Kagame told parliament earlier this month that the BBC had chosen to "tarnish Rwandans, dehumanise them" and accused it of "genocide denial".

An estimated 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, were killed in just 100 days by Hutu extremists -- a rate of killing that was far faster than the Holocaust in World War II.

Prominent international academics, experts and diplomats have also accused the BBC of being "recklessly irresponsible" by allegedly promoting a revisionist account of the genocide in the documentary, notably by questioning the number of Tutsis who were killed.

The BBC, one of the country's most popular broadcasters, said the programme in "no way" sought "to downplay or conceal the horrifying events of 1994" and subsequent events.

Earlier Friday, a Rwandan media regulatory body said it opposed calls in Rwanda's parliament for the BBC's FM licence to be withdrawn.

The Rwanda Media Commission, an independent body, said the BBC documentary was "insulting" and that the BBC was guilty of "distorting the history of genocide", but added a ban "should not be the solution".


Source: BBC

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/661091-rwanda-suspends-bbc-broadcasts-over-genocide-film.html
 
The is no mercy for any media which is playing with people minds for a very sensitive issue. People are healing tribal strain wounds but irresponsible media are souring it with salt and pepper. What a shame!
 
Stupid, idiotic, frivolous, immature, infantile, puerile, impudence, impetuous, silly, ignorant, fuddy-duddy, blasé`, poo-like, nonchalant, goat-urine smelling ......... decision!
 
Sijali said:
Stupid, idiotic, frivolous, immature, infantile, puerile, impudence, impetuous, silly, ignorant, fuddy-duddy, blasé`, poo-like, nonchalant, goat-urine smelling ......... decision!
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Ya leo kali!
IMETOKA IYOO, IKIRUDI PANCHAAA!
 
Sijali said:
Stupid, idiotic, frivolous, immature, infantile, puerile, impudence, impetuous, silly, ignorant, fuddy-duddy, blasé`, poo-like, nonchalant, goat-urine smelling ......... decision!
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Kill yourself
 
Wangefungia mpaka English and French service au kwa kuwa wananchi wengi hawaelewi lugha hizi.maamuzi ya kijinga.
 
babukijana
Kosa la BBC nini?
Ati kusema RPF walihusika na kutungua ndege ya Rais wa Rwanda?
That is a well known truth, Kagame hawezi kuupiga marufuku ukweli.
Na ndio maana anaogopa kuachia madaraka.
 
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TUJITEGEMEE said:
The is no mercy for any media which is playing with people minds for a very sensitive issue. People are healing tribal strain wounds but irresponsible media are souring it with salt and pepper. What a shame!
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you are a tutsi healing from genocide, understand that there are hutus who are also healing for genocide by kagame's regime. if you the tutsi say the number of victims were over 800,000 to one million while the number of Tutsi in 1994 was only 900,000 you do you want to tell us that all tutsi were killed in the genocide, and would you believe that those skulls yo have in Rwanda are mostly of Hutus not tutsis? kayumba nyamwasa and others have proved that RPF killed a lot of hutus as a regange, that is also genocide because a group of poeple was chosen when killing, and what about the five million people killed in congo by kagame regime? are you tutus only people to be commemorated? so special and better race than hutus? an why is ingabire in prison till now? do you know that the world has understood the truth and you are going to remain naked?
 
Kituru said:
Wangefungia mpaka English and French service au kwa kuwa wananchi wengi hawaelewi lugha hizi.maamuzi ya kijinga.
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katika maisha ukitaka kuumbuka, pambana na vyombo vya habari, the more you fight them the more you are being exposed. kagame's regime is ending. if i was him, i would start freeing ingabire, an giving amnesty and peace talks to the rebels in congo and all diaspora, otherwise, he is going to be dug to the ground and ICTR which we thought was going to wind up may be rejuvenated for kagame.
 

Kuna interview ya kama dk 45 iko You tube prof mmoja wa sheria US anahojiwa...alikuwa kwenye jopo la watetezi wa watuumiwa Arusha...na ametunga kitabu...huyo nae ameua mbaya....it's real sad kuwa Blair na Bush wamesababisha mauaji ya watu kati ya milioni 5 na 10 DRC kwa kumsafisha PK...maana bila wao jamaa angekuwa rupango long time na asingeua hawa wakongo...
 
Sometimes you wonder kama mko sawa huko vichwani kwenu,FYI most of hao wazungu they are not stupid to believe your stupidity, they know better that's why kuna 5m$ bounty from US for your hero kabuga washenzi wakubwa nyie.
 
Isingekuwa Kagame kuja kuwachomoa na kuwarudisha Rwanda mngekufa wote from cholera and stupid interahamwe waliokuwa wanawatumia as a human shield,nimeshasema mara nyingi NAZI hawakumalizwa by negotiating or sitting with them on the table,dawa yenu ni kuwatandika from all fronts with no mercy mbwa wakubwa nyie.
 

Ahahahhaha, hasira zote hizo za nini we kipanya? tulia unyolewe. Yaani utawachukia watu africa nzima. Mambo yenu sasa yanawekwa wazi kutokana na kujishuku kwa mambo mliyoyafanya.
Mzee wa sumu kaenda wapi? mbona siku hizi simuoni humu? au kagame kamuondoa kwenye payroll? ahahahha...... Wazee wa jenosaidiiiiiiii........LOL
 
TUJITEGEMEE said:
The is no mercy for any media which is playing with people minds for a very sensitive issue. People are healing tribal strain wounds but irresponsible media are souring it with salt and pepper. What a shame!
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Ridiculous. The ones who are twisting facts are responsible in making BBC do the documentary. In my view healing process has to be just. You can not force people to see things in your eyes, facts will always be facts, meddling with them is tantamount to suicide. This is what we see now.

In my view the reaction of Kigali is neither smart nor measured.

Unajua ukiwazuia watu kusema ndani ya Rwanda, unawapa watu wa nje mazingira ya kuuliza kuuliza na hata kusema uongo. If media in Rwanda were free, documentary kama hii ingefanywa na wanyarwanda zamani na ku-neutralize wenye mawazo ya kufanya documentary kama hii. Kuwafungia BBC is unthinkable kuna channels nyingi tu za kuingiza propaganda kwenye nchi zinazobana vyombp vya habari.

Let us forget for a minute about the content of the video which can fairly be contested, let us look at this issue around making of it. Why was it made, is it because BBC is pro interahamwe? is it because it was bought by Bagosoras? is it because it is anti Tutsi media entity. WHY did they make the thing?

Tukianza kuhukumu bila kuwa na fikra, tutakuta CNN na wengine wengi wanatengneza documentary kama hizo.
 
kagame hajui kwamba wazungu wamemchoka na ni suala la muda
 
definition of the genocide: based on international law....
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The crime of genocide is defined in international law in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
The Genocide Convention was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. The Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951. More than 130 nations have ratified the Genocide Convention and over 70 nations have made provisions for the punishment of genocide in domestic criminal law. The text of Article II of the Genocide Convention was included as a crime in Article 6 of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Punishable Acts

The following are genocidal acts when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group's existence:
Killing members of the group includes direct killing and actions causing death....

SOURCE: Genocide Watch
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The term cockroaches was lebelled to who....? and why...?

Ukiitwa mwizi mjini kati...na kupigiwa yowe...tayari wewe ...ni wakupigwa mawe na kuchomwa moto...!

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Some were asking some data on Rwanda population before genocide
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SOURCE:Genocide in Rwanda | United Human Rights Council
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Vyombo vya habari vinaendeshwa na watu....watu hao wanaweza kuvitumia kwa nia njema au mbaya dhidi ya wenzao...BBC,CNN, Aljazeera,RT,Xinnhua,Debka,Global Publisher/uwazi, The sun, name them...vinaendeshwa na watu.

Kunyamaza kimya bila kuwashughulikia watu wanaotumia vyombo vyao vibaya...eti tunaogopa tukiwakanya watu wengine nao watafanya jambo hilo hilo...siyo busara. Aljazeera wameshughulikiwa huko Misri...kwa nia yao mbaya dhidi ya serikali ya Misri...

Hiwezekani watu watumie vibaya vyombo vyao halafu waachwe hivi hivi....Kama wangekuwa na nia njema yakuponya majeraha ya ukabila nchini Rwanda....basi hata wangemshauri rais wa Rwanda muda huu arudishe utaratibu wa GACACA ulioboreshwa....kama GACACA ya mwanzo ilikuwa na mapungufu.
 
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