Are pictures portraying brutal elements of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi worth broadcasting or publishing during this period of commemoration?

What happened in Rwanda can’t be forgotten.  Recently during the monthly Presidential press conference, a journalist asked whether the horrific scenes of the genocide should not be aired to prevent trauma to survivors and children. 

Also on the ethics front, the Media should not without due care and sensitivity, present facts , opinions, photographs, graphics or scenes that depict or relate to brutality, sadism, salacity, violence and obscenity except in the Public interest.

I interviewed some people on what their take on the issue is.

JOHN NDUSHABANDI (COUNSELLOR)
These kinds of pictures should be broadcasted and published so that people can get to know what happened. It’s even better when the survivors see them so that they don’t live in denial and its related dangers to human life.

SPICELO SANO (BUSINESSMAN)
Yes the pictures are worth airing so that people remember what happened so that it should never happen again.

JULIE KAITESI (STUDENT)
Those picture are not worth airing or published because they tend to increase the pain of the survivors thus always in a traumatized state.

EUGENE .U. (STUDENT)
I have no problem when the pictures are aired or published, however they have effects on people.

STELLA KATUSIME (PARENT)
Measures should be taken by Media to consider what suits the public eye but personally I would not want to see such pictures.

ERIC GASANA (MANAGER)
If we are to consider children as first priority then I support scrapping of such pictures but then on the other hand they portray history and we can’t forget what happened.

What is your say?

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