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Why Did They Kill Their Neighbors? (1998)
Directed by 五十嵐久美子
Documentary · 49m
Rwanda´s Hutu majority butchered at least 800,000 minority Tutsis during the civil war in 1994, a genocidal rampage encouraged by radio broadcasts that fanned fratricidal hatred. This documentary focuses on a young man who was forced by fellow villagers to murder his own sister´s children. Of the 130,000 Hutus detained for war crimes, he was among the few to confess his participation in the mass killings, and won release from custody after three years. A chilling portrait of how media manipulation drove neighbors to frenzied violence.
Crew
- Director
- 五十嵐久美子
Details
- Original title
- Naze rinjin wo koroshitaka
- Release date
- 1998-01-01
- Runtime
- 49m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese