In conflict, the media play an important role: shedding light on events and calling for action to stop the death or injury of innocents. But the media can also play an opposing and less virtuous role, fuelling conflict and promoting violence. And both before and during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, this was the case in Rwanda.
Hassan Ngenze, editor of Kangura. (Internet photo)
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