TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: The Real-Life Hero of Hotel Rwanda
6 PM CJSR FM-88.5 Edmonton www.cjsr.com Thirteen years ago, reactionary forces in Rwanda executed a wide-ranging plan involving a months-long radio propaganda campaign, Western military training, blitzkrieg militia-strikes, Western diplomatic cover-fire and finally Western sanctuary . That plan and its horrifying results are known today as the Rwandan genocide. While a final accounting of the death toll remains controversial, at minimum, the militias called the Interahamwe systematically slaughtered three-quarters of a million people in a matter of weeks. Most of the victims belonged to the Tutsi nationality, groomed by decades of Belgian occupation and divide-and-rule tactics to be the privileged and dominant group in Rwandan society. The militias belonged primarily to the Hutu nationality, those destined by Belgian dictatorship to be the doormats of occupation and post-colonial rule. Such Belgian interference was mild compared to Belgium ’s role in Congo , which around 1900 wa...