English to French Social Sciences General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters

About the Rwanda genocide and dangerous speech disseminated through the radio and other media to incite violence.

Higiro, the director of Radio Rwanda, analyzed its initial success this way:
“These broadcasts were like a conversation among Rwandans who knew each other well and were relaxing over some banana beer or a bottle of Primus [the local beer] in a bar.
It was a conversation without a moderator and without any requirements as to the truth of what was said.
The people who were there recounted what they had seen or heard during the day.”
The exchanges covered everything: rumors circulating on the hills, news from the national radio, conflicts among local political bosses and other topics that cast a shadow over the dangerous speech being ***penetrated***.