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Telling truth about the Genocide and Fighting the denial

Crowdsourced hate speech database could spot early signs of genocide

By Kadhim Shubber

The use of hate speech to dehumanise people is widely recognised as one of the first steps towards genocide. From Rwanda, where Hutu radio stations blared out propaganda referring to Tutsis as “cockroaches”, to Nazi Read the rest of this entry »

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Rwanda deportation a ‘poster child’ for problems with Canadian system

MONTREAL – The Conservative government promised a tougher deportation policy after a man accused of inciting the 1994 Rwanda genocide managed to spend nearly two decades in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dealing with Hate Propaganda: The similarities between Nazi and Interahamwe

Discrimination and its promotion through hate propaganda disturb peace and can pave the way to massive human rights violations such as genocide. Hate propaganda is the public promotion or incitement of hatred against people and identifiable groups and that is likely to result in harm to those targeted. Read the rest of this entry »

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