Court Finds Rwandan Media Execs Guilty of Instigating a Genocide
In the first verdict of its kind since the Nuremberg trials, an international court today convicted three Rwandan news media executives of genocide for helping to incite a killing spree by machete-wielding gangs who slaughtered about 800,000 Tutsis in neighboring Rwanda in early 1994.

Anyone who ever refuted the pen being mightier than the sword could learn something from this article. Then again the pen incited the sword to slaughter, hmm.

The article evokes some pretty horrific images of the killings, 800,000 people is an enormous number. Beyond our comprehension really.

"The power of the media to create and destroy human values comes with great responsibility," the court said in a 29-page summary of its judgment. "Those who control the media are accountable for its consequences."

Words are weapons, wield them with care.