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Rwanda
“One hundred thousand young men must be recruited rapidly. They should all stand up so that we kill the Inkotanyi and exterminate them. Look at the person's height and his physical appearance. Just look at his small nose and then break it.”
-KANTANO HABIMANA, FROM A 1994 RADIO BROADCAST
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Nearly a million
Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were murdered in
100 days in 1994. Their killers, mostly Hutus, were encouraged to
commit genocide by the broadcasts of Radio-Télévision Libre des
Milles Collines (RTLM), a Hutu-run radio station known by most
Tutsis as Radio Hate. This transcript of a broadcast by Kantano
Habimana, a popular RTLM presenter, was evidence in the trial of
three RTLM executives. They were sentenced in 2003 to over 30
years in prison for genocide, direct and public incitement to
commit genocide, and crimes against humanity (extermination and
persecution). Habimana probably died in a Congolese refugee
camp, after fleeing Rwanda.
“So, where did all the Inkotanyi [a derogatory term for Tutsis] who
used to telephone me go, eh? 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. The Good Lord is really just, these evildoers, these terrorists,
these people with suicidal tendencies will end up being
exterminated. When I remember the number of corpses that I saw lying around in Nyamirambo
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yesterday alone; they had come to
defend their Major who had just been killed. Some Inkotanyi also
went to lock themselves up in the house of Mathias. They stayed
there and could not find a way to get out and now they are dying of
hunger and some have been burned. However, the Inkotanyi are so
wicked that even after one of them has been burned and looks like
a charred body, he will still try to take position behind his gun and
shoot in all directions and afterwards he will treat himself, I don't
know with what medicine. Many of them had been burned, but they
still managed to pull on the trigger with their feet and shoot. I do
not know how they are created. I do not know. When you look at
them, you wonder what kind of people they are. In any case, let us
simply stand firm and exterminate them, so that our children and
grandchildren do not hear that word 'Inkotanyi' ever again.”
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From far left to right:
In 1994 this street in Kigali was the site of a roadblock.
A mass grave in a forest near Murambi in eastern Rwanda.
Lime–covered genocide victims at the Technical College in Murambi.
Over a 48–hour period in 1994, 40,000 people were massacred at the college.
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