Rwanda: Words Can Spark Genocide, But Does the Media Know It?

In his book We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Phillip Gourevitch quotes an American military intelligence officer he met in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, who equates genocide to "a cheese sandwich" and the Genocide Convention to something that "makes a nice wrapping for a cheese sandwich." The military officer is a non-Rwandan genocide denier, who refuses to admit that a crime against humanity was committed in Rwanda. Sadly, there are many like him, among them Rwandans.