
Theoneste Bagosora, was a retired colonel and chief of staff in Rwanda's defence ministry when, in April 1994, he gave the order to implement a longstanding plan to exterminate his country's Tutsi minority. One hundred days later, about 800,000 people had been murdered.

RADOVAN KARADŽIĆ
Indicted for genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions, deportation, inhumane acts, acts of violence the primary purpose of which was to spread terror among the civilian population, unlawful attack on civilians, taking of hostages.
Founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS); President of the SDS until his
resignation on 19 July 1996; Chairman of the National Security Council of the so-called Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (later Republika Srpska - “RS”); President of the three-member Presidency of RS from its creation on 12 May 1992 until 17 December 1992, and thereafter sole President of Republika Srpska and Supreme Commander of its armed forces.
Racism - The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Determination of attitudes and policies on the basis of racial characteristics, often due to racialism. Racism manifests in hatred and fear of people of different ethnicity, and in overt or covert attempts to keep them in subordinate (less important and less powerful) positions. Whereas individual racism is expressed usually in open antagonism and prejudice, institutional racism involves subtle structuring of organizations and systems in a tacit understanding to keep 'them' down or out.
Bigotry - Bigoted attitude or behaviour.
Bigot - One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. A person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one exhibiting intolerance, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs. The predominant usage in modern American English refers to persons hostile to those of differing race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation and religion. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
Let’s face it. We, at one time or another, have uttered or thought something racist. It is mostly when we are angered by a circumstance, out of earshot or maybe in private. We all have a racist streak in us. It’s a beast in us. It’s a question of controlling that beast. The majority of us do, being able to control that beast, that is.
What are your inner thoughts, nowadays, about immigrant Indonesians (Indon the abbreviated form now deemed derogatory) or Africans or Bangladeshis (Bangla have always been derogatory in our local context) or Myanmarese?
In the Malaysian context, can one be adjudged racist when he has concerns for his race but is tolerant of other races? The act of being tolerant, is to respect and taking the other persons racial sensitivities into utmost consideration. Not only race but religious sensitivities as well. Bigotry is a different matter altogether.
Bigotry by the above definition is evil. Bigotry is a wider spectrum of intolerance. Bigotry encompasses not only an intolerance to race and religion of another, it includes an intolerance to those not of its social status and political affiliation.
A BIGOT poses more of a danger and a bigger threat.
More so when the BIGOT has power and influence or has influence to those in power.
These are the people who must be brought to book and be rid of.
Defending one's race and by extension one's religion, while having tolerance and respect for another person's race and religion, cannot be racist. Neither can it construed to be bigoted.So do we address
RACISM or
BIGOTRY?