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Itsembatsemba: Rwanda One Genocide Later
Alexis Cordesse/Eyal Sivan | France | 1996 | 13 min.

The genocide in Rwanda (Itsembasemba) that began on April 6th, 1994, took place amidst general indifference. Within one hundred days, soldiers and militiamen massacred at least 700,000 Tutsis. Using images taken two years after the genocide, in April 1996, combined with a sound track from Radio Television Mille Collines (RTLM) dating from April to June 1994, the film illustrates how RTLM began to transmit in 1991 with the help of the regime and played a key role in the unleashing and the coordination of the killing.

1997 Human Rights Watch Festival.

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL