Excerpts from RTLM broadcasts during the genocide in 1994

Rwandan media played a key role in fomenting ethnic divisions and sowing the seeds of mass slaughter in the years leading up to - and the 100 days of - the 1994 genocide.
(source: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda archives)

[@slimshady5757]

I never thought I could be scared of words in a language I don’t understand.

[@maximem1033]

It's even worse when you understand this language !

[@jonnathan1869]

@@maximem1033 Can you maybe sub the speech in French?

[@maximem1033]

@@jonnathan1869 ok

[@maximem1033]

@@jonnathan1869" Aujourd'hui Dimanche 19 Juin 1994, il est 6h22 à Kigali dans les studios de la rtlm, avis à tous les (j'ai pas compris le mot), mais oui, à tous les... Le rwanda appartient à ceux qui le défendent vraiment et vous les... vous n'êtes pas des véritables Rwandais"

[@MrBikboi]

we love this n India ❤️ we praise felicen kabooga we love to much in munbai the man hero for millions of us I wnt to kiss him handsum mannn

[@gustavoritter7321]

This is so chilling, its like entering in a dark room and hearing the mumblings of monsters. RIP to all the victims of that atrocity.

[@nathanseper8738]

It wasn't monsters, but people with hearts and minds. Which makes this so much worse.

[@YizzyRoger]

@@nathanseper8738man I’m glad I was not born in this nightmarish era

[@rippspeck]

Hitler's speeches were less bone-chilling than this broadcast. The bluntness is staggering.

[@anishapoorwakispotta7754]

Does is matter ? In both the cases millions were murdered

[@Holzauktion]

Have you ever listened any Hitler speech? I doubt it.

[@geraldocartier9083]

@regalia they are cockroaches

[@c.9900]

@ThirdeyeStrike Ever actually listened to Antifa's yelling on demonstrations? Awful lot of white folks saying anti-white things and calling for the death of police officers. Its remarkable, despite their resources to carry out such an act not existing, how similar it sounds to broadcasts such as these.

[@cartercartercartercar]

regalia yeahhh no they’re not. you’re comparing the genocide of an unarmed and vastly outnumbered minority to antifa, which is not a centralized movement, has zero institutional power, and is also vastly outnumbered by the majority stop watching whatever dumbass conservative or “enlightened liberal” shit you listen to

[@AthenaMinerva-bn4xf]

Can anyone imagine hearing this dark message on the radio in Rwanda in '94? I would be beyond terrified if I heard it then and now.

[@SkepCakes]

I mean they broadcasted this, right after they got thrown out of the country by the RPF. The radio host themselves probably beyond terrified for the fact that the RPF is coming for them.

[@hithere4719]

@@SkepCakesExactly! People who want to whine about this radio message can go sit on a tack and cry about it. They are damned wrong to do so.

[@flake6057]

@@hithere4719tf do u mean?

[@Co-HostChan]

The sounds of the nightly environment atmosphere and crickets really emphasize the Rwandan genocides were some of the purest form of the darkness any country/continent can see

[@hattanalshutaifi4587]

What in world in could anyone possessed something so horrific and atrocious would do things like mass murder and genocide all because of that mad man in radio say so and they listened encouraging those to commit crimes against humanity is beyond belief

[@Co-HostChan]

@@hattanalshutaifi4587 The mindset of those who led everything I think will be forever beyond anyone's understanding, madness and preying upon social + economic problems achieves this issue and gets scum their way

[@zachflame123]

Lol. You simpleton racist

[@Co-HostChan]

@@zachflame123 Lel

[@daizukkesnabela]

Well. The Belgium colonizers brainwashing and focus on division between Hutus and Tutsis back in time. That had potential to lead into something horrific later on.

[@nathanseper8738]

This broadcast isn't just monstrous. It is evil incarnate. How can someone be so hateful, they would cheerfully sing about the death of others?

[@remy9827]

Literally it makes me feel sick

[@dannygherzgiher8430]

You do know that the Tutsis were the ones who invaded Rwanda right?

[@mrnt0222]

@@dannygherzgiher8430 shut up

[@dannygherzgiher8430]

@@mrnt0222 I am right. The Tutsis under Kagane violates international law and invaded Rwanda

[@mrnt0222]

@@dannygherzgiher8430 it doesn't justify hunting civils, children

[@kjelt2798]

Even crazier to think this was only 28 years ago… How can people be this cruel.

[@m33LLS]

When people are in poverth despair and someone points with a finger who is to blame. They blamed that Tutsis were killing hutus.

[@hithere4719]

@@m33LLS”how could anyone be mad that parasites invaded their land and killed their people?!” -idiotic lovers of cockroaches

[@AlexeiIgnavich]

It’s still going on; listen to how these people talked about the Tutsi’s and notice how it’s exactly how the Israeli government and people talk about the Palestinians.

[@NikoHL]

Israelis are doing the same to the Palestinians, , only with bombs, not machetes...

[@fredvima9916]

1:10 creepiest part by far

[@unpopularopinions3285]

The , "so you understand, you cockroaches have no way out" would have sent me. Rest in Peace all these people. This is unimaginable.

[@nathanseper8738]

The pure hatred uttered boggles the mind.

[@reflexnow]

There must be some switch in human brains that makes normal people to such brutal killers. That radio station successfully activated that switch.

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

+Fuck Google+ The Hell does white supremacy have to do with this? No white people were involved in any way with this genocide. A few tried to stop it, in fact. But no whites enforced it. Brown people don't need white masters to tell them to do horrible things. We can do bad by ourselves.

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

Lol, Nazi? I'm darker than a starless night. I'm an Indian, dimwit. South Indian, in fact. I have no interest in 'defending' white people, but they had fuck all to do with this. This isn't their crime.

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

+eviltreemonster Just because they are praising god, doesn't mean they understand anything of Christianity or its tenets. So I wouldn't blame religion here. As staunch of an atheist as I am, I must admit religion played no substantial part here. This was entirely inter-tribal rivalry.

[@maximus9812]

When the Belgians colonized Rwanda, they judged the Tutsi to be racially superior to the Hutu and placed them in positions of power. So there were generations of violent resentment toward the Tutsi that culminated in genocide.

[@princessdior9]

Actually Germans, Rwanda's colonizers, exasperated the divide between hutus and tutsis. They favored the Tutsi ruling class and promoted the racist Hamitic theory, which was one of the main justifications Hutus used for the genocide. The the Belgians made all this worse when they took over. They actually made Hutus and tutsi into ethnic entities, where before it was mostly economic and cultural status. Belgians made it policy that Rwandans had to carry identifications of whether they were Hutu or Tutsi, similar to apartheid.The French who had their own interests, financed the supply of weapons to Hutus before and DURING the genocide. So yes, actually these Western powers and their imperialist actions laid the groundwork for the genocide which too place, and what more they barely lifted a finger to stop it - which is just as complicit.

[@isabellamanzo8280]

the man singing at the 1:08 mark is Kantano Habimana, that broadcast was from July 2 and for context, he was saying, “…So where did all the Inkotanyi who used to telephone me go? They must have been exterminated… Let us sing: ‘Come, let us rejoice: the Inkotanyi have been exterminated! Come dear friends, let us rejoice, the Good Lord is just.”

[@AB-80X]

I'm quite sure that was Georges singing. I believe that song was also used as evidence during his trial. He was also the man urging people to fill the graves I believe.

[@lovedicedtomatoes9653]

@@AB-80X These people were their neighbors right? Did Hutus and Tutsis tend to not interact or intermarry? How did they dehumanize people to the point where they could butcher and mutilate them like that? It's all so confusing to me. I remember watching CNN at the time and they had set up a camera alongside a river and you just see body after body go floating by. The brutality was just unreal.

[@AB-80X]

@@lovedicedtomatoes9653 The dehumanizing really started after WW1. When the Belgians took over, they put the Tutsis in charge. At the same time Phrenology was all the rage in Europe, and the Tutsis were by the Belgians basically told they were dark skinned white people. This meant that for decades, the Tutsi minority along with the Catholic church undermined and suppressed the Hutu majority. This was amplified by the Belgians, as this was sort of what also happened in Belgium between the Valonians and Flanders. Belgians were used to a system where the minority of people ruled, and they ran Ruanda like that. Then later on when the Hutus had had enough in the 60's, they ceased power as Ruanda stopped being under Belgian rule. Now the Tutsi hate went full force, and Hutu Power came to be. Fast forward 30 years and Rwanda was in turmoil as outside Tutsis wanted to establish a nation for both Tutsis and Hutus. Add to this the fact that the Frensh were allies with the Hutu Rwandan government, and Paul Kagames army was Anglican. France wanted to keep Rwanda "French", and it was seen as a shameful loss if yet another African country started to spsak English rather than French. Therefore, France supported the former Rwandan presidency and government, thus creating an unstable situation where the Rwandan government army as well as Ineramwe received both training and weapons. Add to this that in '92, Butrus Butrus-Gali heloed the Rwandan government purchase an insane amount of illegal weapons from Egypt. Funny where that man was later in charge... Anyway, the hate towards the Tutsis had been brewing for 30 years, Interahamwe and Hutu Power was recruiting unemployed and bored young men like there was no tomorrow, so it was a pressure cooker. Then in early '94 massive storages of weapons and machetes from China was set up, and local Interahamwe and Hutu Power leaders were told to be on standby. Then on April 7 '94 the Rwandan army shot down the presidents plane, but blamed RPF. This was the signal to start the extermination of the Tutsis. So as you can see, many things conspired to set off this chain of events and the hate had 70 years to grow.

[@lovedicedtomatoes9653]

@@AB-80X Thank you for such a detailed answer. You are obviously extremely knowledgeable about what happened. I read that Rwanda experienced massive population growth in the decades before the genocide. I wonder if this rapid population growth led to destabilization and competition for resources, jobs, overcrowding, etc. In Syria, before the recent civil war, the population had increased around 8 fold in 50 years, which led to a lot of tension, especially when the drought struck. I'm wondering about the psychology of those who could hack a baby with a machete. To do something that monstrous, and for it to be so widespread with so many people participating- I just can't understand how so many got to be that hateful, that cruel. Did any priests participate in the genocide? Did the church condemn what was happening? Was Rwanda a Christian nation? Were the participants ostensibly Christian? And finally, I read that some of the Tutsi rebels had been given barracks in the capital or something like that as part of the peace accord- and then the plane was shot down. Do you know what happened to the Tutsi rebels who were in the capital as part of the peace accord- did they immediately flee?

[@lovedicedtomatoes9653]

@Koal Kottentail Thank you. Do you ever wonder what it would take to take a machete to a crying baby? People who did that are still alive. And it was done on a massive scale. I wonder if the people who did that feel shame. All the raping and murder and mutilating and torture. How do so many people who probably seem normal now do such unspeakable things? That is what I can't understand. Most Africans I meet seem like friendly people. I bet Rwanda is no different. So how do nice people get turned into monsters?

[@linclokatz]

I wish there was more recordings of this radio

[@filamupictures9349]

there are, but just not on youtube, they have digital archives in their museums,

[@AbramKayanja]

The confusion you feel at the end when he starts singing ''God is merciful''

[@jmurdock8303]

Ameeen

[@purest_evil]

Not exactly, God is merciful, some people are not

[@arturszubert8500]

"Nobody will judge us" We all still judge you and no one will ever stop !!!

[@ElaborateTiger]

The sad thing is that he probably would have been right if they succeeded in killing them all. History is written by the victor. People celebrate perpetrators of genocide like Christopher Columbus or Captain James Cook.

[@Ihrun]

@@ElaborateTiger I heard that Christopher Columbus drove his ship into a group of islanders peacefully protesting the Spanish immigration. And all the barnacles on the bottom of the ship just tore everything to pieces. What a fucking maniac this guy was. What demon even comes up with something like that! This festivity is still remembered by the way in Haiti, where every year they remove barnacles from their ships. The event left SUCH a mark that they are willing to remove the barnacles from their ships, dramatically affecting their effectiveness! Incredible stuff! The more you know about history amirite! Don't fuck with Christopher Columbus''s Human Rights, he takes that shit seriously, and he will come and barnacle you the fuck up.

[@jstevinik3261]

@@ElaborateTiger Not quite. Potential History argued peer-review rebukes the notion of everything is written by victors.

[@cristianm7097]

Who judges communists of Eastern Europe ? No one. They still rule in E.EU.

[@Rekkenze]

Well this wasn’t exactly big news and most people don’t know about this. So in the end, no one can judge Plus if twitter got ahold of this. I’d be horrified about how much they’d try defending this.

[@zachyt4643]

To anyone who cares, the first man is called Georges Ruggiu

[@DeepUndaInAmsterdam]

ZachYT and he's white. and he's currently free.

[@tinjos8306]

A white guy was involved in fomenting the hatred and barbarism in Rwanda? Bizarre. I remember when this happened, seeing a news report where they had footage of a river and every few minutes a body would come floating past the camera. One of the most horrific, unreal things I've ever seen. The level of brutality and cruelty, how could so many be so monstrous.

[@mirganeh]

@eviltreemonster he was Belgium native...he was sentenced 12 years prison and deported to Italy..but italy after a year make him free...

[@SuzukiYNathie]

I think the other guy was Froduald Karamira, who was later executed for his role in the genocide.

[@maarten9272]

@@mirganeh he did spend 9 years in jail before being released.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Never in history has a radio station been so deadly

[@DeezN1892]

@regalia you can’t compare twitter beef to this come on now

[@LordMalice6d9]

CNN, MSNBC and Fox News come close

[@4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944]

Did you ever hear Rush Limbaugh?

[@johnnyporker8837]

Don't say that. My little cousin insisted on not switching from the one direction marathon on the 2nd channel.

[@probium2832]

@@LordMalice6d9 Idts. If Putler did this it would be slightly closer

[@benanderson3029]

It's so eerie listening to these broadcasts now.......

[@hattanalshutaifi4587]

What in world in could anyone possessed something so horrific and atrocious would do things like mass murder and genocide all because of that mad man in radio say so and they listened encouraging those to commit crimes against humanity is beyond belief

[@probium2832]

This is beyond terrifying. No doubt one of the scariest of radio broadcasts, this should be on those lists... (When I heard about the genocide itself, I was absolutely shocked, as was the case regarding the Congo "Free" State and "Democratic" Kampuchea...)

[@probium2832]

@@HoloHuuhaa Ok Theonetler Adolfsora

[@hithere4719]

Waaah 😭

[@diontaedaughtry974]

I just saw Hotel Rwanda few days ago and I can't get it out of my head, very heartbreaking.

[@leonardmukuhi4810]

The hero in that movie is now in jail in Rwanda

[@skateboarding118]

The movie “Sometimes in April” is far more realistic and disturbing.

[@RenegadeShepTheSpacer]

@@leonardmukuhi4810 He has since been released, thankfully.

[@Poplopbrine]

This makes me feel so disgusted and terrible... How could something like this happen?

[@accatt2204]

People find ways to justify not doing anything. They say, “never again” and when it does like Syria right now, people don’t demand anything be done because “this time it’s different”, and it’s not. People convince themselves there’s nothing they can do, there is but idk. The world doesn’t do what it knows it needs to and then after suddenly becomes brave when people know it’s too late to take any risk.

[@hattanalshutaifi4587]

What in world in could anyone possessed something so horrific and atrocious would do things like mass murder and genocide all because of that mad man in radio say so and they listened encouraging those to commit crimes against humanity is beyond belief

[@apw9929]

if you listen to the rhetoric of certain people in the us like kevin macdonald or jared taylor it is obvious how it could happen again here

[@melvinmerkelhopper5752]

Would have never happened if Rwanda stayed a Belgian colony.

[@w7lves]

very simple. man is an absolute evil being.

[@intello8953]

My friends as an African these types of radio messages brings so much nostalgia and sadness. People don't realise all over Africa during the 70s, 80s, 90s and even early 2000s these types radio broadcasts was normal 😂. Africans just humiliating each other it was funny, horrific, hilarious and sad all at the same time. Thank God Africa is slowly getting better but it's a long process unfortunately

[@someonerandom7466]

That singing creeps me out, especially knowing that it encouraged the mass slaughter of over 800,000 people back then.

[@Busywolf-xn9gp]

This broadcast is more chilling than any speech made by hitler or another dictator

[@Vainglory100]

Yes

[@sashakirova4911]

Not all dictators are bad. Hitler was just a Nazi and a murderer. Besides, he didn't act alone, he had a political party.

[@chasejames5081]

The nonchalant and complety cheerful way he celebrates mass murder is terrifying.

[@lenaramoon4617]

what? are you joking? are you really putting european eugenicists and pro-genociders as morally superior? really? You really think having an automated system of killing isn't equally horrendous as these? you're an idiot. I'm lost for words

[@CClockworkk]

@@lenaramoon4617shut up Toggaf

[@araigneejonjon]

Quelle horreur... Je reviens de voir la pièce "Hate Radio" de Milo Rau au théâtre des Amandiers à Nanterre, à propos des émissions de la RTLM. Merci d'avoir mis ces extraits en ligne, je crois que c'est important de savoir, de se rendre compte, pour ceux qui étaient trop loin, trop jeunes, trop peu impliqués. Il n'y a pas de mots pour décrire ce qu'il s'est passé, mais une chose est sûre : tant qu'on n'arrive pas à en tirer toutes les leçons, ces horreurs arriveront encore.

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

Modi killed jesus Christ children's

[@mehdia4927]

9 ans après vous m'avez fait découvrir le travail de Milo Rau je vous en remercie.

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

First you dehumanize people 'cockroach', when you are dehumanized you are less than human and then your are butchered.

[@hattanalshutaifi4587]

What in world in could anyone possessed something so horrific and atrocious would do things like mass murder and genocide all because of that mad man in radio say so and they listened encouraging those to commit crimes against humanity is beyond belief

[@PhilipDaniel]

First you say a group is responsible for all your misfortunes, then you say that only that group is capable of oppression while your group is incapable of oppressing them back, then you oppress that group with a clear conscience.

[@Endzeitstille]

georges ruggiu only served 9 years in prison, hes one of the persons responsible for the death of 800.000 people.

[@rocknrollmilitant]

White Privilege

[@gurufabbes1]

Repeat for those interested: Concordia University has transcripts of the RTLM broadcasts translated into French and English. All taken from tape recordings from the time. Can't post the link here, but google is your friend. The beginning is an extract from Dated 19th June 1994, p 10 in the PDF. tape0032 Fascinating.

[@Elijah-Setters]

Oh my God thank you

[@TanakaViet82]

0:12 It's not "studio" but "blindé" or "armored car" in English. The RTLM broadcasted their announcement from an armored car, in Kigali.

[@chrisjason7607]

1:08 sounds like those creepy McDonald’s horror commercials from the elder days

[@josefstalin3394]

Or like an old doll, with a failed and aged speaker

[@edacevedo8463]

Listening this on June 19, 2020. 26 Years laters of this Excerpts. 😢😢

[@phantasmtheater6015]

This is what happens when broadcasters and journalists think they are above the laws of God and Man.

[@maxb.244]

At 1:10 the translation is wrong, he's saying "Inkotanyi" which means "Invincibles" and was a nickname for the RPF.

[@SkepCakes]

Maybe the uploader confused "Inkotanyi (RPF/Invincibles)" with "Inyenzi(Cockroaches)"

[@bluasphalt]

This is so fucking eerie.

[@kyledavies9002]

The most chilling thing I have ever heard.

[@Elijah-Setters]

I have had a facanation with the role the radio had in the Rwandan genocide. If you have more exerts, please shere them

[@chasejames5081]

If anyone wonders what pure evil sounds like, this is it.

[@rutonde]

From the judgment of Georges Ruggiu, the individual heard in the opening diatribe: ‘In May 1993, Ruggiu met President *Habyarimana* several times on personal invitation. At one meeting, the President solicited his opinion about means of improving the image of Rwanda and his regime. In November 1993, Ruggiu left Belgium to settle in Rwanda. His employment at "RTLM" [the genocide radio station] was facilitated by President *Habyarimana* who used his influence with Ferdinand Nahimana, the Director of RTLM.’ _(Ruggiu’s Judgment, June 1, 2000)_

[@guilamonster654]

The fact that the Europe had soo much to do with this, and didn’t help the Tutsi people. Edit: The following years when Belgium and Germany stated “Our thoughts and prayers to those suffering”, that brings shame to both countries.

[@chasejames5081]

The U.N. chose not to intervene and save lives. Shameful!

[@fuwa9616]

Why should Europeans have to parent African behavior, when you just told Europeans to stop colonizing them for that reason?

[@stephen1340c]

Also, France. The French government was a major supporter of Hutu Power and Juvenal Habyarimana.

[@slimshidy2451]

Hey bro they need to take accountability for their actions and stop blaming whites

[@lenaramoon4617]

@@fuwa9616 you're an idiot. THE EUGENIC IDEALS THAT THE GERMANS IMPARTED UPONG THE RWANDANS LEAD TO THIS GENOCIDE. IDIOT

[@gurufabbes1]

Concordia University has transcripts of the RTLM broadcasts translated into French and English. All taken from tape recordings from the time. Can't post the link here, but google is your friend.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Chilling.

[@AtulSharma-vc2tg]

Indian Godi media is also doing the same these days!

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

God bless you Atul bro shame indian media and modi

[@rockkyy19]

Exactly!!

[@renaehanley5880]

does anyone know where i can find the audio online? ive tried searching high and low but can only find transcripts

[@thomass1891]

What's astonishing is that the Hutus carried out the atrocities with a happy heart and pre meditation

[@EEdmunds]

PRAYERS PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[@sarahallen7433]

Who is the last person speaking in the video? What transcript was it from?

[@AB-80X]

I forget his name. He was a historian I believe. If I recall correctly, it's from the first few days.

[@roboticbloxxer9427]

I actually learned about this event in either Middle or High school.

[@hlmannea]

He will now hold guiltless who takes his name in vain....

[@TheBotevist]

Do you know where I can find more of these broadcasts?

[@rutonde]

ICTR archives if you can navigate them

[@jkillings772]

Netflix documentary Worlds Most Wanted did a show on the guy that started the radio station and basically funded the genocide

[@susanwojcickiisafuckingwhore_]

@@jkillings772 felicien?

[@user-zl6mm4mr5h]

This voice is so scared. I can't believe this is happening on the other side of the world in the year I was born.

[@justinwooten9998]

The Tutsi is the Manchu of Africa!

[@taimothy]

Scary and sad.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

This gives meaning to the word evil. The lesson from this is we can all end up this way if we are not careful.

[@SkepCakes]

Unfortunately for them (RTLM), the *RPF* exists

[@user-saraswatidevi]

Does anyone have similar creepy broadcasts of similar events?

[@hollymerda8854]

This is creepy

[@mattiaspersson6459]

This speech is horrific, so much extreme hate

[@KOTYAR0]

And US couldn't block this radio because "fuel for our plane would be too expensive, taxpayers won't understand". Disgusting

[@gustavoritter7321]

Well they were broadcasting it out of an armored car for fear of RPF bombings, so I don't know if that would effective.

[@guido7095]

the first speech was made by a white belgian guy called "Georges Ruggiu". he was also responsible for the genocide

[@sadiqsd7800]

Today's India's Godi Media the same to same

[@guilamonster654]

A mostly unknown fact: Clinton new of the events on the 13 day, and requested updates every few days

[@Imnotpolish-]

The song they sang gave me chills

[@travelleryu]

Utterly horrifying

[@darkminister1503]

This is similar the way many Indian news channels are referring to Indian Musl..

[@swapnilgautam9847]

INDIAN MEDIA IS DOING THIS RIGHT NOW. My country is going to end right now.

[@XxAdelaide1994xX]

Republic TV is literally RTLM. The amount of blunt, visceral propaganda against Muslims is bone chilling.

[@RohitSingh-sc4zo]

@@XxAdelaide1994xX Yup... Other channels are also playing a significant role... "Zee News" is the Hindi RTLM. There's one Deepak Chaurasia too, after this tabhligi jamaat fiasco, he called in some people for a debate and said "talibani jamat" twice or thrice in quick succession... When confronted, he simply denied having used such words and started shouting at the panel member.

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

Modi killed jesus Christ children's

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

@@XxAdelaide1994xX today everyone know indian media and modi

[@rockkyy19]

@regalia opposing Modi but supporting trump?? Piss of Evangelic Nazi.

[@vito6238]

I don't like social networks, but I have to admit that if there had been the situation would not have degenerated in that way.

[@TheLocalLt]

Eh it may have actually been worse. Look how Communist China uses social media to sell their people the benefits of genociding the Uighurs

[@Ajclz]

Nah, China is doing the same with uyghurs, Myanmar did the same with Rohingya people, and there was the Tigray genocide recently too, unfortunately people don't care, since it isn't happening in western/rich countries

[@hattanalshutaifi4587]

What in world in could anyone possessed something so horrific and atrocious would do things like mass murder and genocide all because of that mad man in radio say so and they listened encouraging those to commit crimes against humanity is beyond belief

[@PhilipDaniel]

It's a toxic combination of beliefs and attitudes that precipitate genocide. Usually, the group that commits genocide feels aggrieved/victimized by the group it targets. The group that commits genocide views the target group as the source of its oppression and as possessing unearned power and unfair advantage. The group that commits genocide also typically correlates material success and power that it attributes to the target group with inherent moral, spiritual, and cultural inferiority.

[@Mrprince4245]

I know those people were terrified to hear that

[@NikoHL]

That is some scary sh*t... You can imagine being a minority with children and hearing that... Omg.

[@remy9827]

That song creeps me out the most. Ugh. This is honestly horrible.

[@internethardcase]

I didn't know Joy Reid did radio.

[@martinarufarodzimbanhete3725]

Just wonder how could one speak like that in a sober mind.

[@Jiibserjo00]

what a madness

[@teddyfurstman1997]

Too disturbing! 😢

[@linclokatz]

This is history

[@AndreaRizos]

anyone by chance know the translation of this in English?

[@africangenius6696]

Andrea R yes

[@africangenius6696]

Andrea R they are basically saying that the Tutsi went from 10% to 8% and the coachroches made it happen

[@AB-80X]

What video were you watching? It's all there.

[@lonestar2078]

this is why I refuse to think of the average voters who disagree with me as being evil. I cannot in good conscience believe that they are evil; misguided and wanting to help, yes. but evil? no. I do however believe those in charge have some answering to do

[@mnessenche]

We have heard the abyss, the voice of evil, of darkness.

[@poinendev2932]

Fun fact; one of the RTLM staffers was a white man by the name of George's Ruggiu who claims to be Italian but was born in Belgium, he inserted himself into Rwandan politics two years before the genocide and promoted hate and violence against the Tutsi people. He got 12 years in prison in 2000 for his part in the genocide, was shipped back to Italy and was released early in 2009 by the Italian government, violating the original sentence and so is now a free man. A piece of shit lunatic who got a lucky break because he never actually dirtied his own cowardly hands, or perhaps a faithful dog of certain former colonial powers who served time quietly for them.

[@larnolarno6800]

Racist

[@SkepCakes]

@@larnolarno6800 how exactly?

[@melvinmerkelhopper5752]

When you incite genocide for fun Lol bottom text

[@SkepCakes]

@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 Felicien Kabuga:

[@sandro327]

0:00 to 0:28 is the belgian journalist Georges Ruggiu talking.

[@User_jykim19999]

Absolutely terrible.

[@Intilegend]

The same in Ukraine now Close to sailing space, having schools, tv-radio etc. both regions could become animals

[@matthewmann8969]

The extra shenanigans

[@dianehssn1929]

que les victimes du génocide puissent reposer en paix ❤️🕊️

[@BlitztheDragon]

For those asking "how" and "why" this happened, the explanation is longwinded but pretty straightforward. The Belgians instituted a racial code by taking two preexisting ethnic designations that were originally determined by lifestyle (Hutus were farmers and Tutsis were herders), and turning them explicitly genetic designations. It just so happened that Tutsis tended to be taller and lighter-skinned than Hutus, and the ruling Kingdom that was there when the Europeans seized the land was Tutsi. The colonizers perceived this to mean that Tutsis were closer to "white" than the Hutus, and thus they were "natural rulers." So the Belgians declared that all lightskinned and tall Rwandans were Tutsi, and the remaining majority Hutu. They then employed the Tutsi in the colonial government and treated Tutsi slightly less awful than the Hutu. The Rwandan Genocide was a direct result of racial tensions manufactured and actively stoked by the Belgian colonial government that festered for decades after independence. The Hutu-ruled dictatorship that rose after independence would regularly use the specter of a Tutsi coup bringing back the colonial government to keep the people in line and shore up its popularity. On the eve of the genocide, Rwanda had suffered an economic downturn, and Tutsi refugees in Uganda had formed a rebel army to invade Rwanda. The rebels had no intention of restoring the colonial government, just toppling the dictatorship and instituting multiparty democracy. Things came to a head with the still unsolved 1994 assassination of the Rwandan President, whose plane was shot down. That was the spark that lit the powderkeg that the regime and pro-government media had filled and primed over several years.

[@JohnSmith-sl2qc]

@Newbuild Muse Hutu and Tutsi were invented by Germans and Belgians you apologist. Before colonisation the social barriers between the 2 "ethnic groups" were very few. It was the colonists who made and strengthened them.

[@gerritkorditschke8447]

@@JohnSmith-sl2qc That's what he said! "The Belgians instituted a racial code by taking two preexisting ethnic designations that were originally determined by lifestyle [...], and turning them explicitly genetic designations. "

[@internethardcase]

yeah! Tribes in Africa never killed each other until the Europeans arrived.... LOL🙄

[@davidstrelec2000]

@@JohnSmith-sl2qc Hutus and tutsis are 2 different ethnic groups

[@atlas5653]

Westerners didn't cause this genocide. Hutu and tusti have always been distinct. Stop making excuses for killers

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

Africa's Goebbels

[@DANGERUSSTV]

We not gonna talk about this though right 🤔

[@purest_evil]

0:45 what is that music?

[@roboticbloxxer9427]

Nana Abahutu by Simon Bikindi.

[@roboticbloxxer9427]

Nanga Abahutu by Simon Bikindi.

[@purest_evil]

@@roboticbloxxer9427 thanks man, hutu power forever

[@roboticbloxxer9427]

@@purest_evil No, no Hutu Power, no tribe is superior to the other, every tribe is equal, you know, Black Lives Matter. (No need to remind me of bad apples, because I know if there’s bad apples, it has to be Africans who fight other tribes)

[@CClockworkk]

@@purest_evilyall really trying to have a second round with the Tutsis 😭😭

[@haziqfaisal1270]

God is merciful kek

[@AtrocityEquine01]

The malice...jesus

[@iran747]

Music to my ears.

[@youtubeaccount931]

This is like being in Baltimore

[@vre7474]

No sebrenica or auschwitz

[@josephmontague396]

Hate radio is everywhere

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

Modi killed jesus Christ children's

[@goodstuff8156]

I only listen to Hutu power radio!

[@xMoonlala]

This is so sad and the West kicked back and didn't do shit.

[@xMoonlala]

***** Its all so sad

[@Indrius]

The fuck you're talking about. Felicien Kabuga is a black man born in Rwanda.

[@Max-is4qu]

russia, china, brazil, neighbouring african countries? they all didnt do shit

[@OXiG96]

Because we're all human. If so, why do the "white people" invade countries with resources for much less significant reasons?

[@RyanSmith-np5jq]

PandasDontShare so are you just gonna ignore the Armenian genocide done by the Turks, the najing massacre done by the Japanese, Even the Rwandans killing each other, and the Arab slave trade, and cartels and warlords in Africa trafficking humans

[@gasoreleons2728]

Inyenzi , it's the R.P.F and they called themselves I.N.Y.E.N.Z.I

[@GriefTourist]

One of these guys was a white Belgian

[@duckgames__]

@@NoVaZzE999 look up Georges Ruggiu he was a producer at the radio station. He was a white Belgian

[@Ukrainisch]

​@@duckgames__Looks like someone wanted Leopold's job doned.

[@WhySoSerius]

Exact same thing happening in India

[@asianguy86]

True they killed kashmiris now others too

[@harbingerdown9877]

Shame we never got any catchy music like in the balkands

[@epeacock1363]

who was speaking

[@MrsKwan-jp8lr]

George Rutaganda

[@jasusmaytbari3496]

indian prime minister modi criminal

[@user-ev8lv2rk8i]

jasus mayt bari no one cares

[@warriorson7979]

😢😢😢😢😣😣😣😣