Communication

THE MEDIA AND THE RWANDA GENOCIDE

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When, on 7 April, people around the world commemorate the 10th
anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, that observance should be fi lled not only
with remorse, but with resolve.
We must remember the victims – the hundreds of thousands of men, women
and children abandoned to systematic slaughter while the world, which
had the capacity to save most of them, failed to save more than a handful,
forever sullying the collective conscience. We must also help the survivors still
struggling with the physical and psychological scars. But most of all, we must
pledge – to ourselves as moral beings and to each other as a human community
– to act boldly, including through military action when no other course will
work, to ensure that such a denial of our common humanity is never allowed
to happen again.
The United Nations has now had ten years to refl ect on the bitter knowledge
that genocide happened while UN peacekeepers were on the ground in Rwanda,
and to learn lessons that all humankind should have learned from previous
genocides. We are determined to sound the alarm about emerging crises and
to help countries tackle the root causes of their problems. I expect soon to
appoint a United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, and
to make other proposals for strengthening our action in this area.

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Series Title

THE MEDIA AND THE RWANDA GENOCIDE

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Publisher

London : Pluto Press., 2007

Collation

1-480

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1–55250–338–0

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edition

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Communication

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