Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne
Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne or RTI for short was the state television broadcaster of the Ivory Coast until April 2011 .
The headquarters were in the Abidjan district of Cocody . Since the country's independence in 1960, RTI had a monopoly as a state broadcaster and served as a propaganda instrument first for the Houphouet government , then that of Henri Konan Bédié and later that of Laurent Gbagbo .
The station ended its existence with the bombing of the broadcasting center in Abidjan in connection with the government crisis 2010/2011 on the night of April 10th to 11th, 2011.
history
Since 1960, in the year of independence, RTI, together with the state daily Fraternité Matin , was a monopoly in the information sector. At the beginning of the 1990s the daily newspaper market was liberalized and in 1993 other radio stations ( BBC , Radio France Internationale (RFI), Africa N1 ) received a license for the first time.
From 1988 to 1994 Danièle Boni-Claverie was director of the RTI.
Civil war
Immediately after the start of the civil war 2002-2007 against Laurent Gbagbo on September 19, 2002, the government banned all other broadcast media. Some of their offices were also devastated. RTI sent out aggressive political propaganda 24 hours a day, including inciting against political opponents. During the civil war, the station had clearly sided with Gbagbo and dismissed all supporters of Ouattara , who was competing with President Gbagbo . The station broadcast regular inflammatory speeches against the "rebels" and Ivorians from Burkina Faso . Open calls for the expulsion of the citizens of Burkinabe origin earned the station the nickname "Radio Mille Lagunes" (Radio of the Thousand Lagoon) - based on the " Radio Mille Collines ", whose inflammatory speeches had prepared for the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s and the location of the transmitter near the Abidjan lagoons.
Government crisis
On December 17, 2010, there was fighting at a road blockade in front of the RTI headquarters. Fighters of the Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire (FN) wanted to break through the barrier, which was secured by supporters of Laurent Gbagbo with a tank, among other things, in order to gain access to the transmitter.
While RTI did not broadcast the announcement of the election results by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission of the Ivory Coast, Youssouf Bakayoko , on December 2, 2010, it broadcast the decision of the Constitutional Council of the Ivory Coast in an endless loop from the next day .
After Guillaume Soro was unsuccessful with a march on the RTI on December 16, the opposition founded Télévision Côte d'Ivoire in January 2011 as a counterweight to RTI.
On January 13, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once again complained about the continued use of the station during the 2010/2011 government crisis with the aim of inciting violence against the UN mission.
On January 19, 2011, the Swiss Federal Council decided to freeze all possible RTI assets in Switzerland with immediate effect. The reason given was: “ Public incitement to hatred and violence through participation in disinformation campaigns in connection with the 2010 presidential election ”.
In resolution 1967 of the UN Security Council of January 19, 2011, the broadcaster was requested to refrain from sending false reports about the Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI).
The RTI building was captured by forces of the Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire on March 31, 2011 during the storm on Abidjan . According to eyewitness reports, a battle with many dead between the Invisible Command and the FRCI took place around the RTI building on the night of March 31st to April 1st . The alleged reason was Ibrahim Coulibaly's request to have the leader of the Invisible Command read a message asking him to take over power as head of a military transitional government. The fighting enabled the Gbagbo-loyal Republican Guards to retake the building later. Ouattara and Coulibaly denied the incidents.
Since late in the evening, the state television broadcaster has only broadcast documentaries and has completely dispensed with current reports. On the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd, the Republican Guard managed to retake the station building.
On the night of April 10th to 11th, 2011, the transmitter was bombed and destroyed by UN troops. As a result, former employees of the station were victims of attacks and hostility.
The RTI program can be freely received in Europe via the Badr 4 satellite at 26 degrees east.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Scheen: Brutal battles and massacres. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 3, 2011, accessed April 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Thomas Scheen: Brutal fight for Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 1, 2011, accessed April 11, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Vladimir Cagnolari: The television war in the Ivory Coast. In: Le Monde diplomatique . May 13, 2011, accessed June 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Danielle Boni-Claverie. In: afdevinfo.com. March 26, 2008, accessed on May 9, 2011 (English, biography in tabular form).
- ↑ Sarkozy gives Gbagbo ultimatum. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 17, 2010, accessed May 12, 2011 .
- ^ Secretary-General SG / SM / 13348 AFR / 2096. In: Press Office of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. January 13, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 .
- ^ Ordinance on measures against certain people from Côte d'Ivoire. (PDF; 535 kB) In: Swiss Federal Council . January 19, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Militia leader admits problems within Ouattara's troops. (No longer available online.) In: Yahoo -News. April 18, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 29, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The decisive battle for Abidjan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 1, 2011, accessed April 5, 2011 .
- ^ Johannes Dieterich: Massacre in the Ivory Coast. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 3, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 .
