RWANDA SUSPENDS BBC BROADCASTS OVER GENOCIDE FILM (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 24, 2014, 20:37

There are numerous memorials around Rwanda to those killed in the genocide

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (Rura) said it had received complaints from the public of incitement, hatred, revisionism and genocide denial.

At least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the genocide.

The BBC has denied that any part of the programme constitutes a "denial of the genocide against the Tutsi".

On Wednesday, Rwandan MPs approved a resolution calling on the government to ban the BBC and to charge the documentary-makers with genocide denial, which is a crime in the country.

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