🕳️ Released Phantom Node 20: Juvénal Habyarimana. The Silent Microphone

🕳️ Released Phantom Node 20: Juvénal Habyarimana. The Silent Microphone

The Phantom of the Loud Silence. Politics That Engineered Death.

The Rwandan genocide was not chaos.

It was a carefully planned and publicly announced campaign.

The microphones did not stay silent — they incited.

And although Habyarimana’s death triggered the genocide,

the machinery was built long before — and he helped construct it.

Node Type: Political phantom

Status: Dead, but the system of hatred still lingers

Holding Mechanism: Propaganda, ethnic policy, international indifference

Phantom Image: A smiling bureaucrat with hollow eyes

What Comes Instead: Acknowledgement of guilt, rethinking the silence

The Core of the Node

— Speech that kills

— State-sanctioned ethnic inequality

— Genocide preparation through media and militia structures

— Soulless silence after roaring hatred

How Did He Become a Phantom?

— Built an authoritarian system based on ethnic quotas

— Allowed the rise of extremist militias

— Tolerated (if not orchestrated) hate speech on national media

— Died leaving behind a burning fuse

Why Does the Phantom Still Exist?

— Because trust between people was shattered

— Because silence about the cause remains

— Because accountability was never truly claimed

Phantom’s Condition

— Body gone, voice lingers

— A ghostly presence in the background of genocide

— Fear that it could happen again

After the Regime

— Millions murdered, broken, displaced

— Empty homes, silent villages

— Deep scars etched into collective memory for generations

Collective Response

We no longer stay silent.

We speak, even when it's too late.

Silence is also a crime.

Alt-text:

A graphite pencil portrait of Juvénal Habyarimana. His expression is still, distant, with lifeless eyes staring into space. Behind him stands a microphone — quiet now, yet symbolic of the incitement it once broadcast. A reminder that silence can be a weapon, too.

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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk

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17.07.2025

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