Pity the nation
From the sublime, alas to the ridiculous, or perhaps straight from the good to the ugly, without the usual intervening bad:
Yves Leterme, Flemish politician and possible Belgian PM, has decided to say something very, very foolish in an interview with two Flemish newspapers:
"Do you know what RTBF [Radio télévision belge de la communauté française] is also known as? Radio Milles Collines".
RMC was the voice of the Rwandan genocide: "Widely listened to by the general [Rwandan] population, it projected hate propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur".
Not big, not clever.
Yves Leterme, Flemish politician and possible Belgian PM, has decided to say something very, very foolish in an interview with two Flemish newspapers:
"Do you know what RTBF [Radio télévision belge de la communauté française] is also known as? Radio Milles Collines".
RMC was the voice of the Rwandan genocide: "Widely listened to by the general [Rwandan] population, it projected hate propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur".
Not big, not clever.
Labels: Belgium, idiots, Media
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