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== {{anchor|Hate media as a crime against humanity}}Crime against humanity==

== {{anchor|Hate media as a crime against humanity}}Crime against humanity==



[[Hate speech]] that is promoted by media can be [[Prosecutor|prosecuted]] by national laws; because of its proven ability to contribute to (and incite) [[genocide]], however, hate media which is used to foment the cleansing of a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part, can be prosecuted for inciting genocide under [[international law]]. [[Incitement]] to [[genocide]] was declared a [[Crimes against humanity|crime against humanity]] at the [[Nuremberg trials]],<ref name="ushmm.org">{{cite web |title=Incitement to Genocide in International Law |website=The Holocaust Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007839}}</ref> but only hate-media propaganda which calls for direct extermination was considered a crime against humanity.<ref name="Biju-Duval 2007">{{cite book |last=Biju-Duval, Jean-Marie |chapter='Hate Media'- Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Opportunities Missed b the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |title=The Media and the Rwandan Genocide |url=https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/media-and-rwanda-genocide |editor=Allan Thompson |location=New York, NY |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |date=2007 |isbn=1552503380}}</ref> This definition was modified in the wake of crimes committed in the former [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Rwanda]], and a new definition was provided for the Rwandan tribunals; hate-media propaganda considered to be a crime against humanity must be involved in the direct and indirect incitement of genocide which "must be defined ... as directly provoking the perpetrator(s) to commit genocide, whether through speeches, shouting, or threats uttered in public spaces or at public gatherings or through the sale or dissemination ... of written material or printed matter ... or through the public display of placards or posters, or through another means of audiovisual communication."<ref name="Biju-Duval 2007"/>

[[Hate speech]] which is promoted by media can be [[Prosecutor|prosecuted]] by national laws; because of its proven ability to contribute to (and incite) [[genocide]], however, hate media which is used to foment the cleansing of a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part, can be prosecuted for inciting genocide under [[international law]]. [[Incitement]] to [[genocide]] was declared a [[Crimes against humanity|crime against humanity]] at the [[Nuremberg trials]],<ref name="ushmm.org">{{cite web |title=Incitement to Genocide in International Law |website=The Holocaust Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007839}}</ref> but only hate-media propaganda which calls for direct extermination was considered a crime against humanity.<ref name="Biju-Duval 2007">{{cite book |last=Biju-Duval, Jean-Marie |chapter='Hate Media'- Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Opportunities Missed b the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |title=The Media and the Rwandan Genocide |url=https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/media-and-rwanda-genocide |editor=Allan Thompson |location=New York, NY |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |date=2007 |isbn=1552503380}}</ref> This definition was modified in the wake of crimes committed in the former [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Rwanda]], and a new definition was provided for the Rwandan tribunals; hate-media propaganda considered to be a crime against humanity must be involved in the direct and indirect incitement of genocide which "must be defined ... as directly provoking the perpetrator(s) to commit genocide, whether through speeches, shouting, or threats uttered in public spaces or at public gatherings or through the sale or dissemination ... of written material or printed matter ... or through the public display of placards or posters, or through another means of audiovisual communication."<ref name="Biju-Duval 2007"/>



== {{anchor|Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS1) and War in Yugoslavia|Propaganda as part of the indictment against Milošević|Propaganda as a war crime in the case against Vojislav Šešelj}}Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS1) and the Yugoslav Wars ==

== {{anchor|Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS1) and War in Yugoslavia|Propaganda as part of the indictment against Milošević|Propaganda as a war crime in the case against Vojislav Šešelj}}Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS1) and the Yugoslav Wars ==

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