Sierra Leone: Politician Warns Colleagues of 'Rwanda-Type Tribalism'

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Rwanda News Agency/Agence Rwandaise d'Information (Kigali)

29 July 2008
Posted to the web 29 July 2008

Kigali

A senior politician in Sierra Leone has warned members of a rival political party against instigating hatred among the population as that would lead to a Rwanda-type ethnic conflict.

Sheikh Sillah - of the ruling All Peoples Congress claims that politicians in the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party are "preaching the Rwanda-type tribalism here, and which is not good", Awoko newspaper reported.

The ruling party politician said that "these so-called intellectuals or useless people are instigating the people against the others, and preaching false information over the media."

A clique of wealth individuals in Rwanda funded the establishment of the infamous hate radio RTLM on which ethnic hatred was propagated. There was also the newspaper Kangura.

Mr. Hassan Ngeze, the owner and editor of Kangura newspaper, Mr. Ferdinand Nahimana and Mr. Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, both founding members of RTLM - are serving terms at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda. The three allegedly used their respective media to incite ethnic Hutu to kill ethnic Tutsi during the April-June 1994 Tutsi Genocide.

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The Sierra Leonean politician told the newspaper that politicians within the opposition party "are poisoning the minds of the people." He was reacting to an election race in which the ruling party candidate had been declared winner.

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