Milo Rau’s ‘Hate Radio’ and the Pelicot Trial

Inside a glass-walled studio, three talk-radio hosts banter, play pop and recreate a 1994 RTLM broadcast in Milo Rau’s "Hate Radio." The piece, which began performances at St. Ann’s Warehouse, draws from archival material to re-stage the station that Hutu hard-liners used to direct attacks against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority during the 100-day genocide.

Between pop songs and quizzes the hosts urge violence — “Be happy, friends!” they sing, in between calls for their neighbors’ deaths. Rau, a Swiss director-activist who leads the International Institute of Political Murder, dissolves the barrier between performance and life.

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