[AfricaRealities.com] Despite BBC's support to Kagame’s regime for the last 20 years, Kagame’s war and mass killings of Hutu innocent civilians, BBC has been suspended from broadcasting in Rwanda.

 

 

Despite BBC's support to Kagame's  regime for the last 20 years, Kagame's war and mass killings of Hutu  innocent civilians, BBC has been suspended  from broadcasting in Rwanda.

 

With massive media support by BBC to Kagame's war from Uganda to RDC in 1994, no none could expect that BBC would be suspended in Rwanda. This media support to Kagame has continued for the last 20 years.

 

BBC knows very well that Kagame killed thousands of Rwandan people. BBC witnessed this because BBC journalists were accompanying Kagame and Ugandan 's soldiers in their fighting  from Uganda to Kigali, then from Kigali to RDC where hundreds of thousands of refugees were massacred. I do not know who fight wars without killing.

 

BBC has not yet made any substantial report about  these Kagame's massacres. Now, BBC is free to do and they should it as soon as possible. It is well known that many Hutu civilians were killed by Kagame and then  the bodies were shown by Kagame to international media reporters who were accompanying him. Kagame was saying that the civilians were killed by Hutu militia.  The international reporters only had to report these massacres in that way because it was not possible for them to differentiate to know exactly who killed these Hutu civilians.The untold story about Rwanda's war and genocide has really not yet told by BBC. Let's hope it will come one day !

 

 

EU envoys criticise suspension of BBC service in Rwanda

KIGALI

 

European Union ambassadors criticised on Friday the suspension of the local BBC radio service in Rwanda over a row related to a BBC programme on the 1994 genocide, saying the suspension undermined free speech.

The service was suspended in October after a documentary by the broadcaster questioned official accounts of the genocide, in which 800,000 mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

The state-run Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority said last Friday that the BBC broadcasts were indefinitely suspended. The case has been referred to the prosecutor general.

The BBC's "Rwanda: The Untold Story," which aired in October, included interviews with former aides to President Paul Kagame, a former rebel leader, accusing him of plotting to shoot down a plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana.

The assassination of Habyarimana marked the start of the 100-day genocide. The documentary also suggested that Tutsi rebels, led by Kagame, committed war crimes.

Kagame called the documentary "cynicism of the highest order".

"We recognise the hurt caused in Rwanda by some parts of the BBC 2 documentary "Rwanda's Untold Story," European Union ambassadors in Kigali said in a statement.

"However, we regret the indefinite suspension of the BBC Kinyarwanda service on FM and on the internet in Rwanda, which affects media freedom and limits the space for expressing opinions. We expect legal due process to be followed in further steps," said the envoys, including those from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Belgium, Sweden and the EU mission.

"We expect legal due process to be followed in further steps," the statement said.

Rights groups have criticised Rwanda for clamping down on the media and stifling political dissent, a charge the government dismisses, saying it guarantees free speech.

Rwandan officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the EU statement.

The armed forces of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, led by Kagame, defeated government troops in 1994, stopping a three-month wave of bloodletting by ethnic Hutu extremists

Critics say Kagame, a Tutsi, has taken advantage of Western guilt over the genocide to increase persecution of opponents.

The Kinyarwanda programme, which many Rwandans used to listen for stories and debates that cannot run on local media, used run 30 minutes every day and two hours every Saturday.

(Reporting by Clement Uwiringiyimana; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by George Obulutsa)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/06/05/uk-rwanda-media-idUKKBN0OL1QT20150605

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