Comment by brookst
19 hours ago
It is very wrong to look at murdered children of one group and say they’re not innocent because their grandparents were killers.
This conflation of group and individual responsibility is at the heart of pretty much every atrocity.
Indeed, but it seems widespread.
Even the trial against a musician who incited violence argues in that direction.
"In addition to other evidence, the prosecution cited a song celebrating the abolition of monarchy and the regaining of independence from 1959 to 1961: a Rwandan expert in the trial later expounded that the latter song could not have been addressed to the Rwandan nation as a whole, because the Tutsis were associated with the Rwandan monarchy and colonial regime, and that it was impossible to hate the monarchy without hating the Tutsis"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bikindi#Details