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Here is the article which

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:20:45 +0000

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Here is the article which first sparked my interest. It begins by noting what the author believes to be very poor previous journalism by the documentary's creator. It then goes on:

Nonetheless, Corbin has now fronted a truly disturbing revisionist documentary on Rwanda, called Rwanda’s Untold Story. The programme’s argument is that the official story about a straightforward genocide by the Hutu majority of Rwanda’s Tutsis 20 years ago is highly selective and entirely misleading. One scholar suggests that the narrative we have been fed is the equivalent of reducing the Second World War to the Holocaust and claiming nothing else of significance happened.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39871.htm

And here is one that is very critical of the BBC documentary. This author's judgment of Corbin, the documentary's creator, would probably be much like that expressed in the first paragraph in the above article.

It is not often a documentary comes along that totally reattributes the historical reality of a genocide in a mere one hour. Indeed the BBC programme Rwanda: the Untold Story, broadcast at prime-time on 1 October 2014, managed this in a record of ten-minute section of its airtime.

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Instead, the BBC entrusted the exposure of the "true" story of the genocide to two American academics, Allan Stam and Christian Davenport, who had travelled to Rwanda in 1998 and found everyone they spoke to telling the same story about the genocide. This, they decided, was not because people were recounting what had actually happened but because they had been brainwashed or frightened into a massive cover-up.

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2014-10-07/181691/

The link still works for me

LULU — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:43:32 +0000

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The link still works for me but google had several places it could e seen. It is a recent BBC doc with the above title.

I can't get to the link, so

Aaron Carine — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:47:58 +0000

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I can't get to the link, so maybe I won't be able to watch the documentary.

Going with numbers from

Aaron Carine — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:46:26 +0000

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Going with numbers from earlier. Perhaps I'll watch the documentary.

I won't argue which numbers

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:57:34 +0000

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I won't argue which numbers you believe. What struck me most was the difference in what is commonly believed, what is now accepted as history, from what is reported in this documentary. And, I acknowledge that my skepticism of what is commonly heard from our MSM needs be applied to all media. I am curious though, did you watch the documentary or are you going with figures from earlier?

It has long been known that

Aaron Carine — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:01:22 +0000

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It has long been known that there have been human rights violations in Rwanda since 1994, but that doesn't alter the fact that Tutsis were victims of genocide. There were atrocities against Hutus during the genocide, but there was no equivalence. 800,000 Tutsis were killed, over ninety percent of them noncombatants; 25,000 to 45,000 Hutus were killed, many of them combatants.

This documentary may be

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:08:01 +0000

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This documentary may be complete bs. If it is not, then we must conclude that we were fed a lot of bs when the massacres were going on. Maybe for that to happen is rare. Who knows?