ABACITSE KW'ICUMU RYA GENOCIDE MU RWANDA BARASABA KAGAME KUREKA UKURI KUKAVUGWA

HOST: Serge Ndayizeye

TOPIC: ABACITSE KW'ICUMU  RYA GENOCIDE MU RWANDA BARASABA KAGAME KUREKA UKURI KUKAVUGWA

GUEST: Callixte Sankara 

A coalition of academics, scientists and journalists has written to the director general of the BBC to accuse the broadcaster of being “recklessly irresponsible” in promoting “genocide denial” in a BBC2 documentary on the Rwanda massacres of 1994.

The letter by 38 experts on Rwanda expresses “grave concern” over the impression left by the film Rwanda’s Untold Story, broadcast earlier this month. The authors demand a BBC inquiry into how the documentary was made and call for the broadcaster to apologise to victims and survivors of the genocide.

“In broadcasting this documentary the BBC has been recklessly irresponsible,” the letter said. “The programme has fuelled genocide denial. It has further emboldened the génocidaires, all their supporters and those who collaborate with them. It has provided them the legitimacy of the BBC.”

The complaint follows earlier protests by Rwandan genocide survivor groups who complained the BBC had followed a political agenda and made no attempt to contact them over what happened in 1994.