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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Dina Temple-Raston Free Press www.simonsays.com 302 pp., $25
Who is responsible for genocide? Can the blame extend beyond those who held the guns, wielded the knives, or committed the rapes? Can we hold accountable members of the media who incited their audience to violence by preaching hatred, suspicion, and self-preservation at all costs?
Prize-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston explores these questions in her in-depth look at one case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established by the United Nations Security Council to prosecute those responsible for the 1994 genocide. The trial examined how the acts of three Rwandan journalists--Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, and Hassan Ngeze--contributed to the slaughter.
Like all ethnic strife, Rwanda's is rooted in history. The country has been torn by violence between its two largest tribes, the Hutu and the Tutsi, since the 14th century, when the Tutsi--tall and fairer-skinned--moved into the region already occupied by the stockier, darker-skinned Hutu. The next century, the Tutsi conquered the Hutu and established a kingdom near Kigali and expanded it to eventually include the area of present-day Rwanda. In the first half of the 20th century, with the...
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