Reply #8: Guilty -of advocating mass murder...

[cantwealljustgetalong]

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In early December 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda (ICTR) found three African media executives guilty of genocide, incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity for the hateful reports and editorials they had published and broadcast nine years before.

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The ICTR's remarkable 350-page decision noted that under international law states have the powers and right to limit speech to protect their own national security and safeguard their citizens. However, governments additionally have an obligation to restrict and impede speech that advocates: "national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence."

In its decision the ICTR compared the Rwandan defendants to the infamous Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, who published the anti-Semitic Der Stuermer. Decades earlier, the Nuremberg Tribunal adjudicating the war crimes of the Third Reich found that Streicher's racist writings acted as a "poison injected into the minds of thousands of Germans which caused them to follow the National Socialist Party's policy of Jewish persecution and extermination."

The Nuremberg judges gave Streicher the death penalty for his journalistic incitement.

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The reasoning of the ICTR's decision mandates that broadcasters and publishers have an obligation to restrict hate speech or face the penal consequences. Those who provide a media forum to encourage racist violence are guilty of crimes against humanity.

The ICTR's long sentences for criminal incitement that led to murder constitute a powerful example of how seriously hate speech is now viewed under international law.

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1075730352523&p=1006953079865