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Rwandan Genocide and the International Law of Radio Jamming

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Since its first transatlantic use in 1901, the radio has proven a remarkably powerful and versatile tool. It was used to incite racial hatred in Nazi Germany, Bosnia and Rwanda. Through Vatican Radio and other outlets, it has been harnessed to inspire love and peace. It has been used as an implement both to wage war and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of disaster. International broadcast stations like Radio Free Europe and Radio Martí have been viewed by some as a force of liberation, and by others as a tool of imperialism and hegemony.

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26 These included Félicien Kabuga, financial adviser to President Habyarimana and president of die station’s Board of Directors; leader of the extremist Coalition pour la Defense de la République, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza; Minister of Transport and Communications André Ntagerura; and numerous others. The eight employees hired by RTLM had all worked for Radio Rwanda in its earlier, more extremist incarnation and were members of prominent extremist political groups. See Broadcasting Genocide, supra note 3, at 72-77.

27 Id. at 86. In fact, many of the people involved in organizing militias and gangs like the Interahamwe were among the supporters and financiers of RTLM.

28 Id. at 94-95. In one case, a journalist named in such a broadcast called the station repeatedly and begged that his “death warrant” be retracted. A retraction was made and the man’s life was spared.

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38 The linkage of the broadcasts and the killings was demonstrated in part when a 39-year-old auto mechanic was captured but then let go after RTLM called for his release.

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59 The USCR press release stated:

USCR urges the U.S. to use immediately its technical capability to “jam” the radio broadcasts of Radio Milles Collines, which Rwandan extremists have used to disseminate their racist, hate-filled violence. In recent days this radio station has broadcast messages to the militias and to the public exhorting them to accelerate the slaughter. U.S. military personnel have told USCR that the U.S. military has the ability to jam these broadcasts almost immediately. Ending these broadcasts would be extremely helpful and would be a strong signal to extremists [sic] leaders in Rwanda that the international community is serious about curbing their actions.

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65 This letter was paraphrased to the author by a member of Senator Kennedy’s staff who had it in her hand. The letter was undated.

66 Although this article focuses on the United States, it is important to note that there were calls for the French military to jam RTLM broadcasts as well. Although Bruno Delaye, Chief Counselor on Africa to the French presidency, later asserted that “France was willing to stop the broadcasts but was unable to find the transmitter,” Human Rights Watch has strongly rejected this assertion. See Human Rights Watch Arms Project Press Release, Rwanda/Zaire: Rearming with Impunity: International Support for the Perpetrators of the Rwandese Genocide (May 1995).

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71 These provisions are described in part II infra.

72 Interviews by Professor Frank Chalk with senior officials of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. (Apr. & Dec. 1995), cited in Frank Chalk, Hate Radio in Rwanda 12 (on file with author).

73 See Crisis in Central Africa, supra note 64, at 60; Burkhalter, supra note 57, at 51.

74 Interview with Roger Winter, U.S. Committee for Refugees (Feb. 8, 1997).

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80 Id. at 584-85. The terra “on conquered people” again suggests a focus on crimes against the peace.

81 The exact meaning of these holdings was disputed by the Russian judge at Nuremberg. See Whitton & Larson, supra note 9, at 81.

82 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, UN ESCOR, 7th Sess., Supp. No. 6, Art. IV(c), at 8, UN Doc. E/794 (1948).

83 Id., Commentary at 31.

84 UN GAOR, 6th Comm, 3d Sess., 85th mtg., at 230-32 (1948).

85 Id. at 220.

86 UN GAOR, 6th Comm., 3d Sess., 87th mtg., at 253 (1948).

87 UN ESCOR, Ad Hoc Comm. on Genocide, 6th Sess., 16th mtg., at 9, UN Doc. E/AC.25/SR.16 (1948). It should be noted, however, that it was not only the Soviets who wanted a broader definition of incitement. France, for example, was also a vocal proponent of this position. The U.S. stand, however, was polarized out of fear of Soviet and Soviet-bloc abuse of the incitement provision.

88 Genocide Convention, supra note 44, Art. III.

89 International Convention Concerning the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, Sept. 23, 1936, 186 LNTS 301. Article 2 provides that “ [t]he High Contracting Parties mutually undertake to ensure that transmissions from stations within their respective territories shall not constitute an incitement either to war against another High Contracting Party or to acts likely to lead thereto.” Id. at 309.

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92 GA Res. 110 (II) (1947), 1947-48 U.N.Y.B. 93.

93 See UN Charter Art. 2, paras. 4, 7.

94 Letter from Assistant Chief of Telecommunications Policy Staff (Lebel), Department of State, to John Whitton (Aug. 30, 1950), 13 Whiteman Digest 1031-32.

95 UN ESCOR, 11th Sess., Supp. No. 5A, ch. 2, at 2 (1950), cited in Whitton & Larson, supra note 9, at 211-12.

96 Whitton & Larson, supra note 9, at 212; Martin, supra note 13, at 86.

97 GA Res. 217A (III), UN Doc. A/810, at 71 (1948).

98 GA Res. 424 (V), UN GAOR, 5th Sess., Supp. No. 20, UN Doc. A/1775 (1950).

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102 See Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Human Rights Treaties and the Senate 167-68 (1990).

103 See Ǻshild Samnoy, Human Rights as International Consensus: The Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1945-1948, at 20-21 (1993).

104 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, supra note 97, Art. 19.

105 Id., Art. 29.

106 UN Doc. E/CN.4/SR.174, at 6 (1950).

107 UN Doc. A/C.3/L.921 (1961).

108 UN Doc. E/CN.4/SR.1078, at 93 (1961).

109 UN Doc. A/C.3/L.925 (1961).

110 For an overview of the debates in the Human Rights Commission on these issues, see Stephanie, Farrior, Molding the Matrix: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of International Law Concerning Hate Speech , 14 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 1, 19-46 (1996)Google Scholar.

111 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Dec. 16, 1966, Art. 19, para. 3, 999 UNTS 171 [hereinafter ICCPR].

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113 See UN Doc. E/CN.4/SR.377, at 6, 8 (1953).

114 ICCPR, supra note 111, Art. 20.

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117 Kaufman, supra note 102, at 9, 12-14, 134-35.

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120 Partsch, supra note 118, at 24.

121 Again, although this article focuses on U.S. and general international law, it is important to note that the European tradition of freedom of expression permits a less absolute understanding of this freedom than traditional U.S. jurisprudence. European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, Art. 10, 213 UNTS 222. See also text at note 112 supra. For a modern interpretation of this provision by the European Court of Human Rights, see Jersild v. Denmark, 298 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) (1994).

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128 See text at note 104 supra. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, supra note 121, tracks Article 19 of the Universal Declaration rather closely.

129 Price, supra note 101, at 391, 393. The United States, for example, accused Cuba of executing a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1983 for allegedly spreading “propaganda to incite armed rebellion.” Elliott, Abrams, Human Rights in Cuba , Dep’t St. Bull., Sept. 1984, at 53 Google Scholar.

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135 These include conspiracy and “fighting words” and are discussed in text at notes 141-45 infra.

136 See Samnoy, supra note 103, at 20-21.

137 See Kaufman, supra note 102, at 17-19. Some of the leading opponents of ratification were, in fact, McCarthyites.

138 The United States ratified the Genocide Convention in 1989, the ICCPR in 1992, and the Racial Discrimination Convention in 1994.

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140 “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . . .” U.S. Const. amend. I.

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142 Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 52 (1919).

143 Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, 516-17 (1951).

144 Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250, 266-67 (1952); Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942).

145 Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969). The Brandenburg Court actually acquitted a Ku Klux Klan member who had made racist remarks at a Klan rally because his remarks did not apparently meet this standard. See also Chief Judge Learned Hand, cited by Chief Justice Vinson in Dennis v. United States: “ [Courts] must ask whether the gravity of the ‘evil’, discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger.” 341 U.S. at 510.

146 The Soviet Union in 1989 removed the conditions it had imposed on ratification of the ICCPR and other human rights treaties. See letter from Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs Eduard A. Shevardnadze to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Feb. 28, 1989), translated in 83 AJIL 457 (1989).

147 The United States, for example, was willing to accept Cuban broadcasts directed at the United States that called on black Americans to rise against the Government rather than to jam these broadcasts because the net advantage still belonged to the United States. Arcia, supra note 127, at 202.

148 The spread of conflict from ethnic strife in Rwanda to civil war in Zaire and then political unrest in Congo also suggests that responding to human rights crises as they develop is an extremely important method of working to forestall larger regional conflicts.

149 UN Charter Art. 2, paras. 4, 7; see also Ian, Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law 287 (4th ed. 1990)Google Scholar.

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154 UN Charter ch. VII. These threats are defined in Article 39 of the Charter.

155 SC Res. 688 (Apr. 5, 1991), reprinted in 30 ILM 858 (1991).

156 SC Res. 770 (Aug. 13, 1992), reprinted in 31 ILM at 1468.

157 SC Res. 794 (Dec. 3, 1992).

158 SC Res. 940 (July 31, 1994).

159 Jean-Pierre, L. Fonteyne, The Customary International Law Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention: Its Current Validity Under the UN Charter , 4 Cal. W. Int’l L.J. 203, 258-59 (1974)Google Scholar.

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161 Id. at 392.

162 See Clarke & Herbst, supra note 69.

163 Brandenburg, 395 U.S. at 444; see also Hess v. Indiana, 414 U.S. 105, 107-08 (1973).

164 The Constitution Act, 1982, enacted as Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), ch. 11, §319, cited in John, Manwaring, Legal Regulation of Hate Propaganda in Canada , in Striking a Balance, supra note 118, at 106, 108 Google Scholar.

165 Manwaring, supra note 164, at 108-09.

166 See note 146 supra.

167 Of course, establishing a right in international law to jam in certain circumstances also opens the door to greater acceptance of unilateral jamming by individual states based on their own determination of these standards. If, however, international norms can be developed, such unilateral actions outside these bounds would be condemned and possibly punished by the international community.

168 Boutros-Ghali, supra note 153, para. 43, at 966.

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171 Even if they were not clearly definable government organs, they would still have been likely to be held liable according to human rights legal standards. See Velásquez Rodríguez Case, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 4, reprinted in 9 Hum. Rts. L. J. 212 (1988).

172 Indictment, Prosecutor v. Nahimana, Int’l Crim. Trib. for Rwanda, Case ICTR-96 (July 12, 1996) (emphasis added).