The philosophy behind HRW's blatant falsehoods on Rwanda

A key factor in Human Rights Watch’s undeserved influence derives from its very savvy and active media relations strategy. It very often reaches into the media to recruit some of its most rabble-rousing staffers, itself undoubtedly among the reasons many of its ‘reports’ tend to read more like tabloid hatchet jobs, pushing all sorts of bar-room gossip, rather than engaging in real investigations and serious fact-based analysis.