One of the major reasons that RTLM was so successful in communication was because other forms of news sources such as televisions and newspapers were not able to be as popularized because of lack of resources . In addition to this communication barrier , areas where there were high rates of illiteracy and lack of education amongst the citizens remain some of the most violent areas during the genocide . The villages outside of the transmission zone of RTLM experienced spillover violence from villages that actually received the radio transmissions . An estimated 10 % of all the violence within the Rwandan genocide is resulted from the hateful radio transmissions sent out from RTLM . Not only did RTLM increase general violence , but full radio coverage areas increased the number of persons prosecuted for any violence by about 62 – 69 % . However , a recent paper questions the findings of that study
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
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