Verdict on hateful press under the name of free press

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/international/africa/03CND-RWAN.html?hp

Court Finds Rwanda Media Executives Guilty of Genocide
By SHARON LaFRANIERE

Published: December 3, 2003


RUSHA, Tanzania Dec. 3 ― In the first verdict of its kind since the
Nuremberg trials, an international court today convicted three Rwandan
news media executives of genocide for inciting a killing spree by
machete-wielding gangs who slaughtered about 800,000 Tutsis in
neighboring Rwanda in early 1994.

A three judge panel found that the three defendants used a radio
station and a twice-monthly newspaper to inflame ethnic hatred that
eventually led to massacres at churches, schools, hospitals and
roadblocks. The radio station, dubbed Radio Machete in Rwanda, guided
killers to specific victims, broadcasting the names, license plate
numbers and hiding places of Tutsis.

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