Description

• Title:
  Gdy słowa stają się bronią: media w Rwandzie w latach 1990–2016
• Creator:
  Pomiankowska-Wronka, Anna
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Wydział Humanistyczny, Instytut Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Społecznej;
  an.pomiankowska@gmail.com
• Description:
  A free media is crucial for a functioning democracy, but if not truly free, paves the way for manipulation of views, thus cannot to bring democratic changes. Rwandan media played important role before and during the extermination and after this tragedy. Political elites used the Rwandan media like a weapon of words – they demonized Tutsi ethnic population group and aligned with the government spreads hate. Also after the slaughter opposite media were being brutally suppressed, journalists were killed and because of that some of newspapers stopped publication. This article presents the role of the Rwandan media over the period 1990–2016.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2017; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2017
• Date:
  2018.07.04;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica;3;
  41
• Subject:
  media;
  genocide;
  freedom of speech;
  weapon of words
• Identifier:
  1505-9057;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/25250 ;
  2353-1908;
  10.18778/1505-9057.41.13
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image