On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa hosted a one-day symposium on 13 March 2004, entitled ‘The Media and the Rwanda Genocide.’ The symposium examined in tandem the role of both the international media and Rwanda’s domestic news organizations in the cataclysmic events of 1994. [...] He is the author of Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, the 2000 report of the International Panel of Eminent Personalities appointed by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the 1994 Rwanda genocide. [...] He is the author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda and now sits in the Senate of Canada as a member of the Liberal party. [...] NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xv Lindsey Hilsum was one of only two Western journalists on the ground in Rwanda at the time of the genocide and is in a unique position to describe media coverage of the genocide and the disproportionate attention paid to the plight of Hutu refugees who had fl ed to Goma. [...] One of the men huddled in the back of the vehicle waves a hand at the woman who is kneeling on the ground.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Message to Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide 10
- Preface 12
- Notes on Contributors 14
- 1 Introduction 18
- 2 The Media Dichotomy 29
- 3 Rwanda: Walking the Road to Genocide 37
- PART ONE: HATE MEDIA IN RWANDA 56
- 4 Call to Genocide: Radio in Rwanda, 1994 58
- 5 RTLM Propaganda: the Democratic Alibi 72
- 6 Kangura: the Triumph of Propaganda Refined 79
- 7 Rwandan Private Print Media on the Eve of the Genocide 90
- 8 Echoes of Violence: Considerations on Radio and Genocide in Rwanda 107
- 9 RTLM: the Medium that Became a Tool for Mass Murder 127
- 10 The Effect of RTLM’s Rhetoric of Ethnic Hatred in Rural Rwanda 142
- 11 Journalism in a Time of Hate Media 153
- PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE GENOCIDE 160
- 12 Reporting the Genocide 162
- 13 Who Failed in Rwanda, Journalists or the Media? 177
- 14 Reporting Rwanda: the Media and the Aid Agencies 184
- 15 Limited Vision: How Both the American Media and Government Failed Rwanda 205
- 16 Missing the Story: the Media and the Rwanda Genocide 215
- 17 What Did They Say? African Media Coverage of the First 100 Days of the Rwanda Crisis 228
- 18 Exhibit 467: Genocide Through a Camera Lens 248
- 19 Media Failure over Rwanda’s Genocide 252
- 20 A Genocide Without Images: White Film Noirs 255
- 21 Notes on Circumstances that Facilitate Genocide: the Attention Given to Rwanda by the Media and Others Outside Rwanda Before 1990 259
- 22 The Media’s Failure: a Reflection on the Rwanda Genocide 265
- 23 How the Media missed the Rwanda Genocide 273
- 24 An Analysis of News Magazine Coverage of the Rwanda Crisis in the United States 278
- PART THREE: JOURNALISM AS GENOCIDE – THE MEDIA TRIAL 292
- 25 The Verdict: Summary Judgement from the Media Trial 294
- 26 The Pre-Genocide Case Against Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines 325
- 27 The Challenges in Prosecuting Print Media for Incitement to Genocide 347
- 28 ‘Hate Media’ – Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Opportunities Missed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 360
- 29 A Lost Opportunity for Justice: Why Did the ICTR Not Prosecute Gender Propaganda? 379
- PART FOUR: AFTER THE GENOCIDE AND THE WAY FORWARD 390
- 30 Intervening to Prevent Genocidal Violence: the Role of the Media 392
- 31 Information in Crisis Areas as a Tool for Peace: the Hirondelle Experience 398
- 32 The Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies 406
- 33 Censorship and Propaganda in Post-Genocide Rwanda 421
- 34 PG – Parental Guidance or Portrayal of Genocide: the Comparative Depiction of Mass Murder in Contemporary Cinema 434
- 35 The Responsibility to Report: a New Journalistic Paradigm 450
- Bibliography 464
- Index 472
- A 472
- B 472
- C 473
- D 473
- E 473
- F 473
- G 473
- H 474
- I 475
- J 475
- K 475
- L 476
- M 476
- N 477
- O 477
- P 477
- Q 478
- R 478
- S 479
- T 479
- U 479
- V 480
- W 480
- Y 480
- Z 480
