― dave q, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― John Darnielle, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"GEORGES RUGGIU is a mystery even to those who savoured his excited, foreign accent invoking Robespierre to keep the blood flowing across Rwanda. The 37-year-old Belgian is the only non-Rwandan arrested by the International Tribunal for complicity in the 1994 genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. He was picked up last month in a swoop in Nairobi that netted six other prominent accused, all Hutus. As far as is known, Ruggiu never wielded a machete or directly oversaw a single killing. Yet the white, Italian-born teacher - who took Belgian nationality 22 years ago - was among the most-wanted for genocide. His tool was the notorious Radio Mille Collines - a private radio station run by Hutu extremists."
I think, in this light, the choice is quite obvious.
― Daver, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)