On Thursday April 3, 2014 Dutch newspaper NRC gathered the gall to imply that Rwanda was ‘running behind on schedule’ with regards to ‘coping’ with the 1994 mass slaughtering that robbed 700.000 Tutsi and 100.000 Hutu of their lives. With their “Twenty years later Rwanda hasn’t coped with the genocide yet”-headline the newspaper plays more than its part in illustrating that in Holland’s ghostwhite media landscape there’s no room for Black suffering. The country’s national lack of interest in Africa (‘Country, clan or continent?’) even allows relevance to trump a logic based on chronology. ‘Cause if after 53 years the Netherlands “still” annually commemorates the Dutch casualties of World War II on May 4, where the hell did NRC drag their ‘hasn’t it been a while?’-suggestion from?

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