Ananie Nkurunziza
{{Short description|Rwandan journalist}}
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| birth_date = 1950s
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Ananie Nkurunziza (born 1950s){{cite web
|url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/7195/unictr_rtlm_0016_eng.pdf?sequence=2 |title=Interview transcription
|website=utexas.edu|access-date=8 July 2023}} was a presenter (animateur) on the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, which played a significant role in promoting the Rwandan genocide. Like the station's other broadcasters, Nkurunziza incited violence against Tutsi and moderate Hutu on the air.{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/404468bc2.html|title=Refworld {{!}} The Prosecutor v. Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Hassan Ngeze (Judgement and Sentence)|website=Refworld|access-date=2019-08-27}}
Background
On air, Nkurunziza acted as a political analyst, taking on the role of a serious intellectual and recounting foreign news.{{cite book |editor-last=Thompson |editor-first=Allan |title=The Media and the Rwanda Genocide |url=http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |year=2007 |publisher=Pluto Press, Fountain Publishers, IDRC |isbn=978-0-74532-625-2 |pages=58,98,127 |access-date=2016-11-27 |archive-date=2013-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916062855/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |url-status=dead }} Segments by Nkurunziza accounted for approximately 11% of RTLM airtime. As an animateur, he received the fourth most airtime.{{cite book |editor-last=Thompson |editor-first=Allan |title=Kimani, Mary: RTLM: the Medium that Became a Tool for Mass Murder. In "The Media and the Rwanda Genocide" |url=http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |year=2007 |publisher=Pluto Press, Fountain Publishers, IDRC |isbn=978-0-74532-625-2 |page=116 |access-date=2016-11-27 |archive-date=2013-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916062855/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |url-status=dead }}
Before joining RTLM, Nkurunziza worked for an intelligence officer. He maintained his links to the Rwandan intelligence and police communities during his tenure at RTLM.{{cite book |editor-last=Thompson |editor-first=Allan |title=The Media and the Rwanda Genocide |url=http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |year=2007 |publisher=Pluto Press, Fountain Publishers, IDRC |isbn=978-0-74532-625-2 |page=58 |access-date=2016-11-27 |archive-date=2013-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916062855/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=131 |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.rwandafile.com/rtlm/index.html RwandaFile: Transcripts of RTLM broadcasts, including numerous by Ananie Nkurunziza]
{{Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines}}
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Category:2000s missing person cases
Category:Missing person cases in Africa
Category:Rwandan radio presenters
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