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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From the Boston Globe</FONT></DIV>
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<H1 class=mainHead><FONT size=3>Rwanda media struggle with press
curbs</FONT></H1>
<H2 class=subHead><FONT size=3>Constraints in place since 1994
genocide</FONT></H2>
<P class=byline>By Carter Dougherty, Globe Correspondent, 4/5/2004</P>
<P>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.<SPAN class=story> </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
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