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Listen to this clip carefully. This is the radio broadcast from Rwandan Radio (RTLM) in 1993-1994.

Some background: There were two major tribes in Rwanda called Hutu and Tutsi. The Hutus were a majority and Tutsi minorities. Hutus were in power. (1/6)

In 1990, the army began arming civilians with weapons such as machetes, and it began training the Hutu youth in combat, officially as a programme of "civil defence" against the Hutu threat.
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RTLM Radio was started in Mar-1993 and started with the broadcast of racist propaganda, obscene jokes & music, became very popular throughout the country.

The ground for genocide was being prepared since 1990. And a trigger occurred with Rwanda's president's assassination. (3/6)
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