RWANDA - WHEN YOU SILENCE FREE SPEECH, THERE IS "PEACE"

Jeanne To Thanh Hien‎ to Network for Human Rights, Equality and Social Justice

 

PRESS FREEDOM (RWANDA)
'T'he election was a masterpiece of authority. The vote passed in an ambience of total serenity. No negative incidents were reported in the country: there were no protests, no complaints, no boycotts or demonstrations. The people queued up obediently. None of the opposing candidates claimed procedural irregularities.'

'By the end of the election the old guard of news journalists had been done away with: killed, imprisoned, exiled or, by fear, converted into Intore.'

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