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Candelaria church aroused national and international public opinion, the
proportion rises to 80 per cent. 60/
115. Discrimination against children is also evident in education. For
instance, many authorities refuse to provide schooling for foreign children, on
account of their inadequate knowledge of the language in which instruction is
provided (United States, New Zealand ...) or on account of the irregular
situation of the parents in the territory (a case which was reported in many
municipalities in France in 1993). The aim of Proposition 187, which is
currently suspended on account of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court,
was also to prohibit the access of children of undocumented migrant workers to
education in the state of California.
116. Similarly, in eastern Ukraine, Russian speakers have complained of the
growing use of the Ukrainian language in the schools and in the media. They
claim that their children are at a disadvantage since the introduction of tests
of knowledge of Ukrainian in university entrance examinations. 61/
117. The denial of access to education, in many cases in violation of the law,
blocks the integration of foreign children, an integration for which the school
serves as the first, and probably the most effective, vector.
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Incitement to racial hatred and freedom of opinion and
of expression
118. The role of certain media in reporting racist remarks and appeals to
violence, ethnic or racial hatred and genocide, using either clandestine or
legally established radio stations, is becoming increasingly a matter for
concern.
119. In Burundi, for example, the conflict between the Tutsi and the Hutu is fed
by calls for war and for violence and hatred propagated by clandestine radio
stations such as Radio Rutomorangingo. 62/ The extent of the massacres of the
Tutsi of Rwanda can be attributed to the campaign for the extermination of the
Tutsi orchestrated by Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). 63/
The newspapers Le Carrefour des Idées, L’Aube, Le Témoin, Nyabusorongo,
L’Eclaireur and Le Miroir have helped to transmit those messages. Others have
incited to interethnic violence by means of coded messages.
120. In the former Yugoslavia, the same phenomenon has been observed to the
detriment of the non-Serbs. In Uppsala, in Sweden, Radio Islam engaged in the
same type of propaganda against the Jews. Its Director was sentenced to six
months in prison on a charge of incitement against an ethnic group for having,
in 1989, broadcast programmes which attempted to maintain that one of the
commandments of Judaism was mitzvat Amalek, which was said to make it incumbent
upon Jews to kill all non-Jews.
121. Apart from the hate media, the traditional media contribute to differences
of opinion with regard to immigrants, ethnic minorities and indigenous
populations by propagating stereotypes and summary or tendentious analyses which
help to reinforce the prejudices on which intolerance flourishes.
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