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29% of Republican Voters Believe They Will Resort to Violence to ‘Save the Country’
20% want Trump to do ‘anything it takes’ to put himself back into the White House.
Mass right-wing hysteria fed by the local Rwandan media kicked off one of the most brutal moments in the history of humankind 30 years ago — the genocide committed by majority Hutus against the minority Tutsis. Over 87 days, 800,000 Tutsis, moderate Hutus, and a smaller ethnic group, the Twa, were butchered mostly by soldiers and Hutu neighbors with machetes. Entire families were ripped from their homes and beheaded on front lawns.
We don’t hear much about this tragedy these days; probably because it happened in Africa; perhaps because the world didn’t do much but just kind of watched, spellbound by the violence. We still don’t hear much about it, even though the flash-paper-like speed with which the killing commenced is something from which we could easily learn. On April 7th, the plane of the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down, killing him.
Rwanda media had been, for years before that crash, laying the groundwork with the majority Hutus by reporting that everything wrong in Rwanda was because the Tutsis were sabotaging the country to keep the Hutus down. The Rwanda media showed Fox News and other…
