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Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role during the April–July 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The station's name is French for "Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television", deriving from the description of Rwanda as ''"Land of a Thousand Hills"''. It received support from the government-controlled Radio Rwanda, which initially allowed it to transmit using their equipment. Widely listened to by the general population, it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded by many Rwandan citizens (a view also shared and expressed by the UN war crimes tribunal) as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur. A study by a Harvard University researcher estimates that 9.9% of the participation in the genocidal violence was due to the broadcasts. The estimate of the study suggests that approximately 51,000 deaths were caused by the station's broadcasts.〔(Yanagizawa-Drott, David. (2010) )〕 ==Prior to the Genocide== RTLMC was established in 1993, primarily railing against on-going peace talks between President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose family supported the radio station,〔('Hate radio' journalist confesses ) from BBC News | AFRICA〕 and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front.〔(The impact of hate media in Rwanda ) from BBC News | AFRICA〕 It became a popular station since it offered frequent contemporary musical selections, unlike state radio, and quickly developed a faithful audience among youth-aged Rwandans, who later made up the bulk of the Interahamwe militia. Félicien Kabuga was allegedly heavily involved in the founding and bankrolling of RTLMC, as well as ''Kangura'' magazine.〔http://www.trial-ch.org/en/ressources/trial-watch/trial-watch/profils/profile/96/action/show/controller/Profile.html〕〔NTV Kenya: In the Footsteps of Kabuga; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpxy4NxqboQ&feature=relmfu〕 In 1993, at an RTLMC fundraising meeting organized by the MRND, Felicien Kabuga allegedly publicly defined the purpose of RTLMC as the defence of Hutu Power.〔ICTR Case No. 99-52-T; The Prosecutor against Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Amended Indictment, pg. 19, 6.4; http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ICTR/BARAYAGWIZA_ICTR-99-52/Judgment_&_Sentence_ICTR-99-52-T.pdf〕 The station is considered to have preyed upon the deep animosities and prejudices of many Hutus. The hateful rhetoric was placed alongside the sophisticated use of humor and popular Zairean music. It frequently referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches" (example: "You () are cockroaches! We will kill you!"). Critics claim that the Rwandan government fostered the creation of RTLMC as "Hate Radio", to circumvent the fact they had committed themselves to a ban against "harmful radio propaganda" in the UN's March 1993 joint communiqué in Dar es Salaam.〔 However RTLMC director Ferdinand Nahimana claimed that the station was founded primarily to counter the propaganda by RPF's Radio Muhabura. In January 1994, the station broadcast messages berating UNAMIR commander Roméo Dallaire for failing to prevent the killing of approximately 50 people in a UN-demilitarized zone.〔("...kill as many people as you want, you cannot kill their memory" ) from the website of the International Committee of the Red Cross〕 After Habyarimana's private plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, RTLMC joined the chorus of voices blaming Tutsi rebels, and began calling for a "final war" to "exterminate" the Tutsi. The code word was 'cut down the tall trees'.〔 RTLMC played classical music in the time immediately after the crash. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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