In 1994 Rwanda entered an orgasm of murder that shocked the world. Around 1.5 million people were killed during this chilling genocide. This genocide was long in coming as divisions between Hutu and Tutsi had been brewing for a long time. The "trigger" for the genocide was the downing of an airplane carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana..
From WikiPedia:
In March 1993, Hutu Power began compiling lists of "traitors" whom they planned to kill, and it is possible that Habyarimana's name was on these lists;[90] the CDR were publicly accusing the president of treason.[90] The Power groups also believed that the national radio station, Radio Rwanda, had become too liberal and supportive of the opposition; they founded a new radio station, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). The RTLM was designed to appeal to the young adults in Rwanda and had extensive reach. Unlike newspapers that could only be found in cities, the radio broadcasts were accessible to Rwanda’s largely rural population of farmers. The format of the broadcasts mirrored Western-style radio talk shows that played popular music, hosted interviews, and encouraged audience participation. The broadcasters told crude jokes and used offensive language that contrasted strongly with Radio Rwanda’s more formal news reports.[100] In fact, just 1.52% of RTLM’s airtime was dedicated to news, while 66.29% of airtime featured the journalists discussing their thoughts on different subjects.[101] As the start of the genocide approached, the RTLM broadcasts focused on their anti-Tutsi propaganda. They characterized the Tutsi as a dangerous enemy that wanted to seize the political power at the expense of Hutu. By linking the Rwandan Patriotic Army with the Tutsi political party and ordinary Tutsi citizens, they classified the entire ethnic group as one homogenous threat to Rwandans. The RTLM went further than amplifying ethnic and political division; it also labeled the Tutsi as inyenzi, meaning non-human pests or cockroaches, which must be exterminated.[102] Leading up to the genocide, there were two hundred and ninety-four instances of the RTLM accusing the Rwandan Patriotic Army of atrocities against the Hutu, along with two hundred and fifty-two broadcasts that call for Hutus to kill the Tutsis.[101] One such broadcast stated, “Someone must…make them disappear for good…to wipe them from human memory…to exterminate the Tutsi from the surface of the earth.”[103] By the time the violence began, the young Hutu population had absorbed months of racist propaganda that characterized all Tutsis as dangerous enemies that must be killed before they seized control of the country. The RTLM’s role in the genocide earned it the nickname “Radio Machete” as it related to their incitement to genocide.[104] One study finds that approximately 10% of the overall violence during the Rwandan genocide can be attributed to this new radio station.[105] However, a recent paper questions the findings of that study.[106] During 1993, the hardliners imported machetes on a scale far larger than what was required for agriculture, as well as other tools which could be used as weapons, such as razor blades, saws and scissors.[107] These tools were distributed around the country, ostensibly as part of the civil defence network.[107]
Why am I bringing this up? Because the US is behaving in a very similar matter. The recent events in DC has ratcheted this to 100. Where in Rwanda the "enemy" was called "cockroaches", in the US they are called "Nazis" and "White Supremacists". Not that there aren't actual neo-nazis (who are not fed agents) or actual white supremacists, but it is simply not the case that those who have issues with the election, among other things are all white supremacists or Nazis or whathaveyou. This is nothing but the dehumanization of those who disagree with the left.
To see people using eliminationist language such as "cleansing" is extremely disturbing to me. It is even more disturbing to me because it is going unchallenged. The language is being used in national NEWS broadcasts.
Again, the Rwandan genocide was sparked off by a political act. Right now in America a political act has been used by people for rank political ends with genocidal commentary. See below for examples.
