{"id":11178,"date":"2014-10-25T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2014-10-25T06:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T10:52:04","slug":"the-guardian-bbc-broadcasts-banned-over-rawanda-genocide-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-guardian-bbc-broadcasts-banned-over-rawanda-genocide-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: BBC broadcasts banned over Rawanda genocide documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-guardian-logo\"<\/a>(Source: The Guardian<\/a> via Andy Sennitt)<\/p>\n

The Rwandan government has suspended all BBC radio broadcasts in Rwanda\u2019s most common language to protest against the news organisation\u2019s recent documentary about the 1994 genocide in the country.<\/p>\n

President Paul Kagame\u2019s government, members of parliament and genocide survivors have expressed their anger at the BBC over the recent documentary that suggested the country\u2019s president may have had a hand shooting down his predecessor\u2019s plane, a crash that triggered the mass killings.<\/p>\n

Its hour-long documentary, Rwanda, The Untold Story, also quoted US researchers who suggested that many of the more than 800,000 Rwandans who died in the 1994 genocide may have been ethnic Hutus, and not ethnic Tutsis as the Rwandan government maintains.<\/p>\n

Late on Friday, the Rwandan Utilities Regulatory Authority announced the suspension of the BBC\u2019s broadcasts in the local language, Kinyarwanda. The board said it took the action because it has received complaints of \u201cincitement, hatred, divisionism, genocide denial and revision\u201d from the public. It said further action could be taken.<\/p>\n

The BBC had defended the film on Friday<\/a>, saying it had a \u201cduty to investigate difficult and challenging subjects\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading at The Guardian…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Guardian via Andy Sennitt) The Rwandan government has suspended all BBC radio broadcasts in Rwanda\u2019s most common language to protest against the news organisation\u2019s recent documentary about the 1994 genocide in the country. President Paul Kagame\u2019s government, members of parliament and genocide survivors have expressed their anger at the BBC over the recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[104,3056],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-rwanda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Ui","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55677,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bbc-world-service-documentary-world-wide-waves-23-the-sounds-of-community-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":11178,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service Documentary: \u201cWorld Wide Waves ’23: The sounds of community radio\u201d","author":"Thomas","date":"February 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"In celebration of the upcoming World Radio Day 2023, our friend David Goren has produced another amazing World Wide Waves episode with Maria Margaronis presenting. 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