The Media and the Rwanda Genocide This page intentionally left blank THE MEDIA AND THE RWANDA GENOCIDE Edited by Allan Thompson With a Statement by Kofi Annan Pluto P Press LONDON • ANN ARBOR, MI Fountain Publishers KAMPALA, UGANDA International Development Research Centre OTTAWA • CAIRO • DAKAR • MONTEVIDEO • NAIROBI • NEW DELHI • SINGAPORE First published 2007 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 www.plutobooks.com International Development Research Centre PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 3H9 www.idrc.ca/
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[email protected] ISBN-10 9970–02–595–3 ISBN-13 978–9970–02–595–4 Copyright © Allan Thompson, 2007. Statement by Kofi Annan, © 2007 The right of Allan Thompson to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Hardback ISBN-13 978 0 7453 2626 9 ISBN-10 0 7453 2626 9 Paperback ISBN-13 978 0 7453 2625 2 ISBN-10 0 7453 2625 0 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Publishing Services Ltd, Fortescue, Sidmouth, EX10 9QG, England Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton Printed and bound in India Contents Message to