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Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role during the April-July 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
The station's name is French for "Mille Collines Free Radio and Television", deriving from the description of Rwanda as "Land of a Thousand Hills". It received support from the government-controlled Radio Rwanda, which initially allowed it to transmit using their equipment.
Widely listened to by the general population, it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur. A November 2009 study—by a PhD candidate at the Institute for International Economic Studies of Stockholm University—estimated that the broadcasts explained an increase in violence that amounted to 45,000 Tutsi deaths, about 9% of the total.
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Transcripts from the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda archives
- UNICTR RTLM Tape 1, recording from 14 May 1994 [Kinyarwanda]
- 1994 May 14 (UNICTR RTLM Tape 1) [Kinyarwanda]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 1, recording from 14 May 1994
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 2, recording from 16-17 May 1994 [English translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 3, recording from 14-15 May 1994 [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 4, recording from 12 April 1994 [English translation] [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 5, recording from 15 May 1994
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 6, recording from 15 May 1994
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 7, recording from 15-16 May 1994 [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 8, recording from 17 May 1994 [English translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 9, recording from 17-18 May 1994 [English translation] [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 10, recording from 21 May 1994 [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 11, recording from 28 May 1994 [English translation] [French translation]
- Kinyarwanda transcript of UNICTR RTLM Tape 12, recording from 28 May 1994 [English translation]