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Africa Pride
A second bad section is journalists who allow them
selves to be a part of the story. I really hate those too. But here is a new one
especially in case of Uganda journalism, When a population hate a government
whether the leadership or a policy, they hate to see through the hate and critic
the journalism, if a journalists writes bad against a president the population
waves their hands. So you wonder what that journalist will write on a new
government.
And I know it is very complex to understand but we
need to remember that journalists are permanent in any nation they do not go
away after a government leaves power. The moment we allow them to be the judges
and jury we must expect them to go with old governments. And that is what
nauseated me on Andrew Mwenda, is to show us that he absolutely knows that
Uganda government killed John Garanga. That was plain stupid journalism, and as
critical thinkers we must see through Museveni's failures and critic
it.
I am sorry.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is
in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:29
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Subject: [rwandanet] Re: [rwanda-l]
Rwanda: Journalist imprisoned for criticising popular tribunals
For some reason the reports of journalists being arrested are often made
to sound like crimes against humanity. Perhaps it is time to start judging
these arrests case by case. We have all seen good examples of shoddy
journalism, the most recent being the case of Ugandan Press that have
virtually killed all newsworthy Garang Death Probes by Investigative
Journalists.
I still think Journalism is best at its fundamental definition: REPORTING
NEWS....when a journalist assumes the role of a critic he also assumes the
burdens that it comes with....its only fair.
AfricanPride.
Nyemera Emmanuel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rwanda
| 14.09.2005
Journalist imprisoned for criticising
popular
tribunals
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14994
Reporters
Without Borders today condemned the arrest
of Jean Léonard Rugambage of
the fortnightly Umuco on
7 September, 10 days after he wrote an
article
accusing certain popular tribunal judges in the
district of
Ruyamba of corruption.
Police spokesman Deo Badege said he was
arrested on
the orders of judges with the popular tribunals, known
as
gacacas. After being held in a police station in
Gitarama province, he
was transferred to the
provinces main prison on 12 September.
It
is unacceptable that a journalist should be thrown
in prison just for
writing about the functioning of
the gacacas, Reporters Without Borders
said. We also
deplore the lack of transparency surrounding
his
arrest. He has not been told how long he is to be held
or when he
will appear in court.
The organisation added : Coming on heels of
the
imprisonment of Belgian missionary priest Guy Theunis
on 10
September, the news of Rugambages arrest has
increased our concern that
Rwandan justice has become
much harsher.
Umuco editor Bonaventure
Bizumuremyi was interrogated
twice in early August after publishing
articles
criticising the prosecution of President Pasteur
Bizimungu
and accusing members of the police force of
embezzlement. He says he has
continued to receive
telephone threats since
then.
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