It is hard to comprehend how Something Like this could happen the. How in 1904 cords of hutu militias would roam the streets and countryside of wonder looking for to seize to kill. It is difficult to comprehend why they would turn on their neighbors their friends and in some cases members of their own families. It was a killing spree that lasted 100 days and came 2800000 lives more than a 10th of the population was lost. It is also hard to comprehend who could instigate such an atrocity. This is the story of frisium computer the role that he and his Radio Station. Played in the rwandan genocide and how could begin managed to evade justice for 26 year. Old girl her. Daughter that her. But it isnt often it is not possible to talk about the genocide we go talking about physical he was the few nuncio of at 10. 20 like it. It was a Radio Station run by genocide i do notes and all day long it was used to insult or demonize to seize to say that of a world because our poor would be. Where. What progress and call took secret sample cockroaches they would refer to them in snakes they were trying to sort of objectified them and distance rwandans from one another were going to offer you the money you got the minute youre on the humanizing a group of people before the actual act explains makes it a lot easier for people what actually sent out the foot soldiers to do the work. Or the work would never hurt. Her or. From the very beginning. Just started with the genocide agenda few days before it even went in there. Because. On its front page and the ties ing at him they said now the tutsis i finished who. From day one up till and what exposure to historic divisions within the country rwanda is majority hutu and minority to its however historically the 2 groups were not divided by ethnicity but by class but took cs were seen as the elites the hutus as subordinates then came colonialism 1st the germans in 1904 then the belgians in 1916 both colonists implemented ethnic hierarchies with europeans at the top then the tootsies in the hutus the minority tootsies were charged with running the country effectively becoming colonial proxies the majority hutus were excluded and what started as a cross defied fest into ethnic hatred. In 1959 the hutus took power from the to seize in a blood soaked revolution independence from colonial forefather 3 years later backed the fear of return it lingered on and over the next 3 decades there were outbreaks of ethnically motivated violence that sent hundreds of thousands of tutsi refugees into neighboring countries. By 1903 when up to them was north just finishing could be a guy and his journalists at the station could play on those entrenched fears and resentments of the took 6. More. With. With what. I want. But 1st the new station needed listeners. And the strategy actin and put in place at a target demographic. And tell him played really quick music i think it was a way of attracting the new field particularly the people who only get Radio Station he wants to plead and use music to engage listeners and then in the middle of a truck he would cut straight to the message and selfhate. One of the gems had to be done the Musical Instruments with song nice today on people who even feel like dancing and dancing using with a demolition to as the attacking the victims. Its evil genius how you into tain killers as as a way of taking away the give. This is what they are to them did. Made clearly many too many my name is by the media i am 65 years old and currently imprisoned in the region to prison for that is speaking in the genocide against the tutsi. Very democratic i was a popular presenter on the tail end i dont know i would love to. Know what the. Good of a program. She openly and repeatedly called for the murder of the church so often by name and when the killings began they can help coordinate the hutu militias known as that into how much by revealing the whereabouts of to seize and moderate hutus who were in hiding not with the government and not about her she told her listeners quote not to kill the cockroaches with a bullet but cut them to pieces with a machete. After the genocide benedict he fled to the congo but was arrested in 1909 and sentenced to life in prison. When asked what compelled her to incite such mass murderous violence a murky place it on fear of her employer radio me a colleague and the man at the top. Stick with it initiative they put in place what was called a student lead they think. They would tell us that if we didnt do as we were told it would be considered a complete sense of the questions they too. Would be viewed as treated just like it would seem so we had to save our lives as were. The catalyst for the genocide occurred on april 2nd 1904 and wonders who took president juvenile happy a minus plane was shocked. Out of t. L. M. Was the 1st station turnouts the news they blamed it on tutsi rebels but in the days leading up to the crash lessness say that they were being told to stay tuned for a big event it was later established that the assassination was carried out by hutu extremists willing to sacrifice a hutu president in order to trigger the genocide. Catherine bond was a freelance journalist based in nairobi at the time when news of his death broke she scrambled to god and would soon experience firsthand the insidious nature of activism sprawl costs catherine bond channel 4 news kigali we were able to get a lift on a convoy of french troops going into kigali into the center kigali to pick up. And at that point radio mill colleen had called people out to greet the french troops and so we saw people come out out of the house alongside the road. When we passed back along the same spot there were just lines of peoples bodies and it transpired that. Colleen heard called everybody out to greet the french and then in doing so people had come out of their houses who were to seize in hiding and. Militiamen had moved in and killed them. And you can see footage is. Television footage is of. He was on the road blocks holding a machete in 100 and the radio on the aga. Whenever someone picked up a machete to go on it was often because he had gated them too and people way we used to get the permission from soldiers. But also from citizens our listeners we used to call into our chain and say we just saw some coke which is he would then but because that information you know and he made a homely and soldiers knew exactly what to do. On sunday when i heard my name greyed out on the radio when caught cold to my stomach i thought its over for me theyre going to kill me. In 1904 sean pearson who too used to sell music to sets in the rwandan capital kigali some of those cassettes contain songs that were popular with tutsi rebels went out of salem acquired one of the cassettes played about and they called psycho hutu out by name he knew that they were putting a target on his back so he went into hiding in a septic tank with a few of them want i entered my home with a small red id listen to at 10 am so legally for a week they used to say shapiro lives in this neighborhood you have to cut you you have to kill him hes very dangerous if you dont kill him hes going to kill you with that was it all until after it was my but truth cannot be run out because i stayed in my home for 2 months and 15 days. Tolman that hero is one of the leading experts on the rwandan genocide whose lifes work has been to document the atrocities that were committed in the lead up to the genocide in that he says that one of the few moderate hutus in government appealed to could be good to stop them from inciting the mass murder of the tootsies. In november and 3 r. T. M. Was someone whod. Then minister of information and couple the head of the delegation they were told that the reveal was incendiary and wasnt the genocide that is the tutsi this warning was not respected and instead the minister and his family were put to them he waited on the 7th of approach and 1000 and. 11 had multiple share hellish thank rooted for one president juvenile hobby of mine and members of his administration and those ties to government would prove critical. A study conducted in 2014 concluded that hutu militia violence increased significantly in for the ages with up to limber section the 3rd of the station signal travel to the more took chiefs would be killed. And it was no accident that villages across the country could choose union to supposedly privately and garley based Radio Stations that were under normal circumstances have limited for each. Other to have them was meant to reach their always administrative area in the country because apart from their own transmitters they were being for through to by the National Review they had some links with rhonda state radio or a way to rhonda and they used it sometimes mission signals and some of its resources when youre talking about the genocide in the segment to genocide watch or talking about it to them and they didnt want. The world watched as for one to 2 points off apart the United Nations reduced its peacekeeping force from 2500 troops to just 5. All over the world there were people like me u. S. President bill clinton would later apologize to rwandans for americas own action saying he was unaware of the scale of the killings he did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror but he said ministration knew what was going on in washington even considered targeting ophir them bombing the stations antenna or jamming it signal by flying a plane overhead the latter option at 8500. 00 per flight was deemed too costly. U. S. Involvement in the story would come but not when it mattered the killings continue. It was not until the one Patriotic Front of the r p f a to see rebel force formed in uganda reach could godly that out of kill em would be targeted the rebels had heard the costs they knew that stopping the station would save lives. Would you know we had that in order to stop us working it will just an april 7th i thought that one going to be able to keep good guys to where they were not success the intent was not hate we kept walking in the records a bit i dont think the rebels had taken more to retirees and you were told it was time to that is when our children stopped and we crossed over to the congo that would call. After the r. P. S. Defeated Government Forces and hutu militias many of the perpetrators of the genocide. Among them fled the country part of a mass exodus of hutu refugees 3 years later in 1907 could be a girl was indicted by the Un International criminal tribunal for 2 counts of crimes against humanity and 5 counts of genocide including the direct and public incitement to commit genocide by that stage on the run. His whereabouts. Here richard prosper served as a prosecutor for the United NationsInternational Criminal tribunal for rwanda from 196998 he prosecuted the 1st ever case of genocide under the un 948 Genocide Convention against a one didnt man named john paul 2 who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity. Genocide. Of people in the 1st case was to investigate the genocide. Ministry. And were able to prosecute him in order to show how the whole thing and by doing that. The International Community and the u. S. In particular had been reluctant to intervene in rwanda seeing what was happening there as an unfixable tribal conflict. However that all changed in march 19th 95 years after the genocide. A group of western tourists on safari in neighboring you can there were attacked by exiled to militiamen 8 were killed including 2 americans reporting at the time described it as an act of revenge against the u. S. For its perceived support of the tutsis but washington that once been happy to take a back seat in the hunt for computer it would now take an active role it may not be easy it may take some time but it will have the highest priority of the United States so now when we move into roughly around 20012002 i am now the u. S. Ambassador at large responsible for war crimes issues we launched an Aggressive Campaign to go after the indicted persons that were at large. They key person for the rwanda context we put them on a poster and held a press conference where we broadcasted throughout the region that were offering up to 5000000. 00 for any information that would lead to their arrest and capture. We put this information on t. V. We put this information on radio we put this information in newspapers and circulated fake kenyan government that press conference took place in kenya with the authorities were concentrating their search efforts could be his name had. Company registers there publicly the more government was saying the right things you know it is also better not if it whatsoever. That doesnt. In getting him up and headed. For privately it was a different story could be because prisons in kenya was an open secret that members of the my government determined to keep. The search continues and it would soon come the life of a kenyan journalist. From a diplomat but just for fun what did they get through my name is just a theory the issue. And the older brother. Is now been 17 years since his death and were still waiting for justice. William turned out to be a person that came forward based on our our campaign. And he came forward with information saying that he knew where it was in kenya and particularly nairobi william we knew him was a journalist who worked for a local newspaper here and aside from the journalism i came to learn he was also. Sort of like a Political Fix for a couple of people in the Civil Service wanted an article written you know positive me they were good to him and he developed a friendship with very very senior members of the morning when we 1st met with him of course we with suspicion as we normally would because you know we thought maybe someone was just trying to get 5000000. 00 but as we began to discuss with him further we started to understand that he had personally seen that he had seen because of his relationship with the kenyan Government Official who was responsible for the Security Services for kenya what people need to remember as well is that the boy that she was very very friendly to that obviously money and therefore that kind of friendship would carry you over to the accommodation of the people who are within that one of these elite thats who felicien couple also came here as we move into late 2002 we had william who gave us credible information that we confirmed through polygraph tests we also approached the kenyan Government Official and gave him a polygraph which he failed. So now we felt that we had enough to move forward and set up an operation to capture the. Plan was simple william a new head would be good to his hearts just outside of nairobi the net the american snow that was there and us agents would move in and make the arrest the operation of the green light and so began the pretender. As the hours passed the days pass so ultimately our security official decided to ignore you you know maybe you better go and try to track down with him to find out what what went wrong. And once he arrived at Williams House it was a long. Look through the bedroom window upstairs and was able to see werent it on his bed in a pool of blood the 1st assertion by the police was that he die you dont of Carbon Monoxide poisoning but his brother as well as a number of other militaries accessed his work and saw the state of the home. Run record that we opened the door and we were shocked there was a rug on the flow that looked like you had blood on it and there was also blood around it then we went upstairs and the bed was covered in blood all over the floor there was no madres on the bed and no blankets. It seemed as if someone had been trying to clean up. And the was never able to get an autopsy done but it became very clear that yet the cue. To calling for an investigation of the time Nothing Happened when looking at the operation what we can see what went wrong is that there was. The information was betrayed in other words that we believe that someone within the kenyan. Security service was aware of our operation and tipped off to not only not be there but also tipped off that william was a source of information and that this was a trap. The same could be eluded the americans his former associates of 39 now him and john but we were sentenced to life in prison in what came to be known as no one does media trial they too were charged with incitement to commit genocide but by that stage biggest trail had once again and for the most part it would stay cold for the next 17 years. One of the most wanted suspects of the rwanda genocide has been arrested in france for this and the man accused of bankrolling and organizing much of it genocide. Is accused of bankrolling and using his Radio Station to broadcast the calls for modern. Finishing could be as funny arrested in this apartment block in the outskirts of powers 6000 miles from. A french court has ruled that his next stop tanzania and the uns International Criminal tribunal for rwanda. One of the Lessons Learned from the. Case outside of the substance of what happened in 1994 and his role is the willingness of people to nor in humanity for financial gain and what i mean by that is you only way to get. All these years. Network of support and that network of support was only viable based on in my view on corruption we need to remember that the genocide happened to people it happened to families it decimated societies and it is that we must return to when we are importing about a trial of a person like for him because a trial in and of itself will have no context or more no meaning if it is not tied to the very fact of the crimes that hes accused of and who would be affected. From behind these wars he has returned to poor costing she now runs the prison as Radio Service providing her fellow inmates with their daily news. During the genocide them ricky says that she didnt fire a single bullet or pick up a machete but she has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life here because of her weaponize the airwaves in a genocide where the killers from the streets with a radio in one hand and a machete in the other. I read the crime that i commuted that i might be lies to people to go out and kill too but i didnt take a decision and if i could speak to god go to deal i would tell him that what he did to us was very bad what he told us was not true and that he created that. With a hidden agenda he said that reduce a strong weapon the strongest one was our tyranny and the owner of that station has been in hiding for 26 years it is something that has caused me great pain but now im happy about his arrest. Unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. From our london broadcast center. On aljazeera. 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