[Media-watch] Press Curbs still in place in Rwanda

[Julie-ann Davies]

>From the Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/04/05/rwanda_media_struggle_with_press_curbs/

Rwanda media struggle with press curbs
Constraints in place since 1994 genocide
By Carter Dougherty, Globe Correspondent, 4/5/2004

KIGALI, Rwanda - Ten years after this nation's news media egged on Rwandans to kill their neighbors, journalists in this tiny African nation are struggling to rebuild their reputations. 

Officially, reporters here work under constraints that Western journalists and even others elsewhere in Africa would find oppressive, as a result of the curbs put in place after a murderous regime of the majority Hutu tribe killed 800,000 members of the minority Tutsi group and their Hutu sympathizers.

But 10 years on, some Rwandan journalists and many international observers say media restrictions look less like a means to avoid a repeat of the events of 1994 and more like a way for politicians to dodge criticism.

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