Anti-Tutsi propaganda continues

Mass extrajudicial killings of Tutsis, witnessed in government-controlled areas in 1998, stopped last year and government officials no longer instigated mob violence against unarmed Tutsis, the report continued. “Government detention of at least some Tutsis became increasingly protective rather than punitive,” the report stated. However, it said serious governmental and society violence and discrimination against Tutsis continued, and the government released 1,341 Tutsis from detention only on condition that they leave the country through internationally-sponsored relocation programmes. Government officials and state media continued to publish and broadcast anti-Tutsi propaganda, while security forces, citizens and CPP members were urged to uncover Tutsis in hiding, according to the report. “Senior government officials and state media continued to represent the war as part of a larger supranational conflict between Bantus and Nilotics,” it added.