Yesterday, I almost posted an argument comparing the 1st Amendment to the 2nd Amendment, about how each can be dangerous to the lives of humans.
I didn’t because I’ve made said argument multiple times over the six point five Earth years of RNS existence.
Turns out, my argument has been made for me in convenient cut-and-paste form
A Rwandan journalist who encouraged Hutus to slaughter Tutsis during the 1994 genocide has been jailed for life.
During her trial Valerie Bemeriki admitted to inciting violence.
In one broadcast attributed to her she told her listeners: “Do not kill those cockroaches with a bullet – cut them to pieces with a machete.”
She was one of the most prominent voices of Radio Mille Collines – a station which became notorious for its encouragement of the slaughter.
The station was launched in 1993, backed by relatives of Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana – whose death in a plane crash helped to trigger the genocide.
Two senior executives of Radio Milles Collines have previously been sentenced to long jail terms by the UN’s Rwanda tribunal, based in Arusha, Tanzania.
About 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in 100 days in Rwanda.
A local court convicted Bemeriki of planning genocide, inciting Hutus, and complicity in several murders.
I am completely surprised that they didn’t kill these people. They most certainly deserve it.
The UN must be involved somewhere.