Christopher Hitchens - Adam Curtis TV - Congo, My Precious 2017 -
The case of Rwanda, which in 1992 gave the world a new synonym for genocide and sadism. The former Belgian possession is the most Christian country in Africa ... At a given signal the racist militias of ‘Hutu Power’, incited by state and church, fell upon their Tutsi neighbors and slaughtered them en masse. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p190
This party [NRMD], together with other organs of the state was fond of rounding up any women of whom it disapproved as ‘prostitutes’ and of encouraging Catholic activists to trash any stores that sold contraceptives. Over time the word spread that prophecy would be fulfilled and that the ‘cockroaches’ – the Tutsi minority – would soon get what was coming to them. ibid. pp190-191
When the apocalyptic year of 1994 actually hit, and the remeditated and coordinated massacres began, many frightened Tutsi and dissident Hutu were unwise enough to try and take refuge in churches. ibid. p191
They [Belguim] then made each group carry racial identity cards, and created a segregated system in which the Tutsis ruled the Hutus with a brutal arrogance, encouraged by their Belgium masters. But then at the end of the 1950s the Belgiums decided to give independence to Rwanda. And a terrible thing happened. Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace III: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine, BBC 2011
The Rwandan genocide spilled over into neighbouring Congo and lasted until 2003. Congo, My Precious, RT 2017