Hate radio journalist makes “taped confessions”

Belgian journalist Georges Ruggiu, accused of inciting genocide over hate radio, has reportedly made at least 35 hours of taped confessions to prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. The independent Hirondelle news agency quoted the bimonthly Rwandan magazine ‘Ubutabera’ as saying on Monday that Ruggiu started his taped confessions on 27 July. Ruggiu, charged with direct and public incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity, is expected to be tried jointly with three other media-linked genocide suspects, Hirondelle said. He was a presenter with Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), which incited people to kill ethnic Tutsis during the 1994 genocide.