Such events had been occurring nationwide, with countless incidents—a ten-year-old boy buried alive, a Hutu housewife strolling over to next-door neighbors and slaughtering the children who had been her children’s closest playmates, untold tortures—as what started out with well-organized militias sent out to the villages to massacre Tutsis turned into a frenzied bloodbath, a killing spree by civilians, who were encouraged by the government and whipped up by the Rwandan state radio blaring out a continuous stream of dehumanizing propaganda, referring to Tutsis not as people but as “cockroaches”
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