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| Subject: Journalists get a taste of statism: Tear-gassed in Ugandan media crackdown Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:57 am | |
| JOHANNESBURG: What happens when the president doesn't like what the media say?
Uganda just found out, when two newspapers that published a letter from a general attacking President Yoweri Museveni's increasingly autocratic leadership style were closed down for 10 days, declared ''crime scenes'', raided by police and pressed to reveal the story's source. Later, journalists who protested were tear-gassed.
Rumours swirled that the government would keep the Daily Monitor, widely seen as a serious daily newspaper, and its more sensationalist rival Red Pepper closed until they went bankrupt.
Two sister radio stations to the Monitor, KFM and Dembe FM, were also shut down. Advertisement
When Mr Museveni came to power in 1986, he was seen in the West as one of a new breed of forward-looking African leaders who would replace the ''big men'' who had clung to power for decades. He even wrote in 1986 that ''the problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people, but leaders who want to overstay in power''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/journalists-teargassed-in-ugandan-media-crackdown-20130531-2nh0g.html#ixzz2UwBSVB00
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