After CNED, now Canal+ lands in turn

When issuing Canal + ” The landing ” aired last night, some actors have apparently dropped. Not having seen the show personally, I look at the reactions of some viewers who expressed their incomprehension and disgust. Apparently, one can be scandalized!

Pretext to laugh, actors have indulged in dubious “jokes” about the Tutsi genocide perpetrated in Rwanda in 1994. Pretending to parody France 2 program “Voyage en terres inconnues” (“Go into the unknown”), they have devised a … trip to Rwanda. Believing to be funny, an actress saw fit to share his difficulties to adopt an orphan “because everybody knows the country is full of them since the massacres” (the word “genocide ” they do not know!). She then put her disappointment on behalf of a “poor organization of the country”, also implying that genocide may have not done enough vicitims, since orphan can return to their families quite easily everytime she picks one up… Tasting a traditional dish, another actor subtly asks : “Is it Mhutu? No, because the Tutsi and Hutu had quarreled a bit”.

Some may argue that they are just acting as schoolboy or after drinking, and that one can laugh at everything, even the most sordid. One will tell us that we have no sense of humor, and that it was a mere entertainment to audiences in economic crisis time!

Well no! Without being prudes, we believe that humor ends where the dignity of men is violated. The Tutsi genocide laid in death more than a million people, men, women, children, babies, elderly people, all innocent. These people did not die in a natural disaster. They were killed for what they were and the fact that a bloodthirsty state decided to eliminate them. This is called genocide.

As we prepare to commemorate the genocide of Tutsis in the twentieth year, as will finally open in France first Assize trial against a Rwandan genocide suspect who had expected to find in this country a haven of peace, as many other hand, we must devote a portion of our energy to denounce abuses, whether voluntarily deniers, or the result of ignorance or human stupidity, not to use a vulgar term that would better the situation.

Despite this, our commitment is unwavering. Responsible for the genocide must be considered is why the CPCR was created. “Without hatred or revenge,” as we like to remember. And all those who believe that we can laugh at everything going their way. They deserve our contempt.

Alain Gauthier, Chairman of the CPCR