The BBC have “made no effort to seek out the voices of those who witnessed and suffered through the genocide in 1994,” said Rwanda survivors’ groups in a joint letter to the broadcasting channel.
The author of “Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide,” accused the BBC of overlooking 20 years of academic research in their recent documentary on the genocide in Rwanda, reports the Independent.
“They alleged that instead of 800,000 Tutsi deaths there were only around 200,000. Even more incredibly, they proposed at least 800,000 Hutus had been killed at the hands of the Rwandese Patriotic Front,” said Andrew Wallis.
In their letter to the BBC director on Friday, the groups accused the BBC documentary, “Rwanda’s Untold Story,” of “giving voice to those who deny the genocide without reaching out to a single survivor or survivor organisation.”
The BBC said that it had received 18 complaints about the programme, reports the Independent.
A BBC spokesperson said,
The author of “Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide,” accused the BBC of overlooking 20 years of academic research in their recent documentary on the genocide in Rwanda, reports the Independent.
“They alleged that instead of 800,000 Tutsi deaths there were only around 200,000. Even more incredibly, they proposed at least 800,000 Hutus had been killed at the hands of the Rwandese Patriotic Front,” said Andrew Wallis.
In their letter to the BBC director on Friday, the groups accused the BBC documentary, “Rwanda’s Untold Story,” of “giving voice to those who deny the genocide without reaching out to a single survivor or survivor organisation.”
The BBC said that it had received 18 complaints about the programme, reports the Independent.
A BBC spokesperson said,
“The BBC strongly refutes the suggestion that any part of the programme constitutes a ‘denial of the genocide against the Tutsi’. There are repeated references to the mass killings of Tutsis by Hutus in 1994 and that this constituted genocide. The programme also includes an interview with the Director of the Genocide Museum at Murambi, a Tutsi and genocide survivor, and a convicted Hutu genocidaire who spoke of his part in the killing of thousands of Tutsis.”Protests are expected to take place outside the BBC headquarters in London this weekend.