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Rwanda's Next Steps

00000176-770f-dc2f-ad76-7f0fad7b0000WYPR's Mary Rose Madden went to Rwanda with the International Reporting Project for two weeks in November 2011.Throughout their travels, they went to the country's capital, Kigali, and into the rural countryside.They met doctors, genocide-rape counselors, Rwandan journalists, President Kagame, and many Rwandans who were very busy farming, making charcoal, or biking their goods through "the land of a thousand hills."Contact Mary Rose Madden at [email protected]. Emily Smith was the Research Assistant. Deb George was the Editor.

Censorship Looms Over Rwanda’s Future Journalists

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Published April 11, 2014 at 3:45 PM EDT

Twenty years ago, the pro-government radio station in Rwanda, RTLM, incited, encouraged, and organized Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic group to find, hunt, and kill their Tutsi neighbors.

It went so far as to air names of Tutsis so they would be easy to find. It called out to Hutus to “get to work” killing their Tutsi neighbors. As WYPR's Mary Rose Madden reported in 2011, media in Rwanda is strictly controlled by the Tutsi- led government. It's another installment of our series, “Rwanda’s Next Steps: A Generation Living in Genocide’s Aftermath.”