It's been 20 years since genocide claimed the lives of at least 800,000 Rwandans. As part of the commemoration of the event, VOA this week hosted a panel discussion - focusing on longstanding criticism that international news media underreported the 1994 massacres.
Rwanda was in the midst of a civil war in 1994 and extremist media were encouraging ethnic hatred against minority Tutsis in the run-up to the genocide. At the same time, Allan Thompson of Carleton University in Canada said Rwanda was a low priority for international media even after the massacres began on April 7.
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