Anderson Cooper compares Capitol siege to Rwandan genocide where 800,000 people were killed

By Emma Colton

Published February 10, 2021 12:00am ET

CNN’s Anderson Cooper compared the riots in the Capitol last month to the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s when 800,000 people were killed.

“We’ve seen it in Bosnia, we’ve seen it in Rwanda, where radios was telling people, you know, Hutus were telling the radio listeners that the Tutsi were cockroaches, you know, getting them ginned up for genocide,” Cooper said Tuesday on CNN while speaking with Rep. Adam Kinzinger.