Panel 1: Hate
Media in Rwanda
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Introduction

Alison Des Forges (left)
and Michael Kabanda wait to speak |
Allan Thompson: Thank
you, thank you again, General Dallaire. So we' re now only
45 seconds behind schedule. So we' re going to move directly
into the first panel. If I could ask the panelists to make
their way, and to please watch the giant leap as you get onto
the stage. I' m just going to give you a quick sort of preview
of how these panels are going to work. I' m delegating the
chairperson responsibility to a subject matter expert for
each of these panels. In the case of panel number one, Frank
Chalk, the Co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide
Studies will be chairing this panel. We have several speakers,
who will each present a brief, 10-minute presentation of their
paper. At that point, the discussant for the panel will pose
the first couple of questions, then we' ll move to questions
from the floor. So if we can take a moment while the panelists
take their places, and then we will began. Perhaps if Frank
wants to sort of begin introducing the subject while the panelists
move into place.
Frank Chalk,
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Frank Chalk: Good morning
ladies and gentlemen. My name is Frank Chalk. I am from the
Department of History, Concordia University, and the Montreal
Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. All of you
have programs, and I suggested last evening that instead of
taking the time to read the biographies in your programs covering
the panelists, we save that four or five minutes for the discussion.
Each of our speakers will take 10 minutes or 11 minutes, and
we will do our utmost to ensure that we have adequate time
for you to ask questions, and to hear answers, though I would
ask that you keep your questions as brief as possible, and
I will also ask the panelists to keep their answers as brief
as possible.
General Dallaire left us with many important
recommendations. One of them pertains specifically to the
young people in this room, and that is to learn the languages,
the history, the geography, the sociology of other cultures,
other countries so in the future Canadians and other peoples
are prepared to understand what they see unfolding before
them in the local languages, with an inside knowledge of the
cultures that are revealing themselves. This panel is an attempt
to address the problem of bringing to the public the expertise
of a whole generation of scholars, who studied Rwanda, and
worked on the issues in Rwanda, in some cases for their entire
professional careers. The biographies are in the program.
The expertise is here. The order in which we are going to
present the subject is as follows. We' ll begin first, with
Marcel Kabanda, second Jean-Pierre Chrétien, third
Binaifer Nowrojee, thank you Binaifer, and finally Alison
Des Forges. This order reflects the subjects that each of
the panelists will address, and puts them in approximate chronological
order. The first speaker then is Marcel Kabanda. Panelists,
I' ve set my timer for 10 minutes, when you hear it go off,
you have one more minute, and I' d ask you to please then
conclude.
Next: Marcel
Kabanda
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