Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:22:20 +0100
"Genocide Denial" in Rwanda: Questioning the Official View of History
BBC joins Rwanda's List of "Genocide Deniers".....Is the UN Rwanda Tribunal
Next?
By <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/peter-erlinder> Prof Peter Erlinder
Global Research, October 27, 2014
Rwanda Genocide: Erlinder v. Kagame, Case Continued in the Court of Public
Opinion
Late last week the Rwandan government banned BBC broadcasts in the central
African country; a day earlier the Rwandan Parliament demanded the
London-based BBC production team be criminally prosecuted for "genocide
denial;" and, a week earlier 38 notables, including former UN Lt. Gen. Romeo
Dallaire (now a Canadian Senator), signed an open letter accusing the BBC of
"irresponsible journalism."
A casual observer would be justified in concluding that staid and steady BBC
must have gone "off the rails." How could the BBC possibly deny that the
mass violence and human tragedy that the world witnessed in Rwanda in 1994
did not happen. The short answer is.it didn't.
The Victors Tell the Story of the War: Always
The supposed "crime" that triggered such intense reaction was the October 1
UK broadcast of a one-hour BBC documentary Rwanda, The Untold Story that
describes the last 100-days of the four-year civil war in Rwanda won by the
RPF army of President Paul Kagame in July 1994. For the past 20 years, the
history of the Rwanda genocide has largely been told by the "RPF
victors.".......
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