1. As Horror Recedes In Time, Rwanda Still Restrains Press.
- Author
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Trofimov, Yaroslav
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MASS media policy , *MASS media , *BROADCASTING policy , *COMMUNICATION policy , *RESISTANCE to government , *NEWSPAPERS , *REPORTERS & reporting , *PRESS ,RWANDAN politics & government - Abstract
Focuses on the mass media in the African nation of Rwanda. Number managing editors in the three-year history of Rwanda's only independent newspaper, "Umuseso," noting that previous editors fled in exile after receiving death threats or being arrested because the paper criticized the government; Comments from Charles Kabonero, the current managing editor, regarding the government's crackdown on the newspaper; Number of Rwandans killed during a civil war in 1994 by the majority Hutu group; Role of the media in inciting the violence directed at the Tutsi minority; Efforts of the existing government led by Paul Kagame, a Tutsi rebel who overthrew the previous regime, to stifle the media.
- Published
- 2004