Many unacceptable situations and acts require a stressor. Stressors are situations and/or events that lead to a catastrophic outcome, such as the Rwandan genocide. Tension between Hutu and Tutsi already existed; he just needed something to reach the breaking point: a stressor. On April 6, 1994, the plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamina, president of Burundi, crashed due to unexplained circumstances. Over the next three months in Rwanda, after the crash carrying both presidents, mass murders began to occur. The death toll rose dramatically, leaving one million Rwandans dead and two million seeking refugee status among neighboring countries: Zaire, Tanzania, and Burundi (Kellow and Steeves 1998). This stressor is a key contributor to the events that followed; the Rwandan genocide. “The increase in tension and violence, the widespread distribution of weapons to civilians and militias, and the increasingly vehement anti-Tutsi propaganda broadcast by Radio Libre de Mille Collines, are all indicators of the growing power of ethnic hatred” (Uvin 1998, 83-84 ). Ethnic hatred centered on hostility and segregation towards a particular group, in this case the Tutsis. The use of fear, rumors and panic allowed the unstable decline of trust between Hutu and Tutsi, which eventually turned into pure ethnic hatred (Kellow and Steeves, 1998; Straus, 2007; Uvin, 1998). The media's role in the Rwandan genocide contributed to increased violence and hatred among Hutu and Tutsi residents. One of the ways in which easily accessible information could be obtained throughout Rwanda was through public broadcasting, particularly radio. Through radio broadcast it allows the public… the center of the paper… Rwanda before RTLM took control of its frequency during the early stages of the genocide (Thompson 2007, 390). Once again the media is not the cause of genocide but rather a tool used to carry out the devastation of a nation at a rapid pace. Works Cited Kellow, Christine L, and H. Leslie Steeves. "The role of radio in the Rwandan genocide". Journalof Communication, 1998: 107-128.Li, Darryl. "Echoes of violence: consideration of radio and the genocide in Rwanda". Journal of Genocide Research, 2004: 9-27. Straus, Scott. "What is the relationship between Hate Radio and violence? Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete'." Politics and Society, 2007: 609-637.Thompson, Allan. The media and the Rwandan genocide. London: Pluto Press, 2007.Uvin, Peter. Helping Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. Connecticut: KumarianPress, Inc, 1998.