Sharangabo Rufagari
Yes it is good you have joined Ugandanet but you are missing one important fact here that Ugandanet has critical thinkers, so after I read your Rwandese Mumbo jumbo let me ask for a very simple clarification.
 
If Mwenda as a reporter or a program operator made statements that threatening the security of Uganda, why was the radio station closed? Mwenda was just an employee of a radio station.
 
Kindly explain to me why the station was closed.
 
Em
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Subject: [Ugnet] MUSEVENI IS RIGHT ON CRACKING DOWN THE SUBRESIVE PRESS!



sharangabo rufagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Dear netters,dear Africans,
 
              I would like first to thank our Ugandan brothers to have extended me the invitation to joint the wonderful UGANDANET forum which is is quoted on GOOGLE.I usually adress to over 10.000 netters over the world on daily basis and they are usualy from Rwanda and DRC.But this time I feel very privileged to be with our UGANDAN brothers as we share the same background as a People and mostly as BROTHERS.Brothers from the same geograpic area,brothers from our comon history and mostly brothers bound to a comon destiny.
 
MUSEVENI IS RIGHT ON CRACKING DOWN THE SUBRESIVE PRESS!.
 
      Dear friends,
 
               We Africans have to be realistical! There are no way we can extrapolate the western values in our continent.Again if we wish to do that,we should that the right way!
 
     I am talking about the freedom of Press.The mass media communication.And I am coming from to what happened in RWANDA during the 94 Genocide.This human tragedy happened primordialy because the MEDIA tools(Radio,newspapers,etc..) During that time the killers were guided by Radio to the potential target.
 
        Having this fact in mind.I believe that any responsible government in our continent has not only the RIGHT but also the OBLIGATION to intervene as quickly as it can to prevent the WORST to happen to his people.
 
    The national security matter is very important.This is not a joke!Not even in the MIGHTY and "Democratic" USA,they will allow the press to act as it wish when the national security affairs are concerned.One has to look back at the relation between the US governement and the press in IRAK.
 
 
     Finaly,I am convinced that the President of Uganda is acting on the full right of his mandate and fulfilling his duties which bestowed to him by the peoples of Uganda.
 
                                   Regards
 
                                               Sharangabo Rufagari
 
                               Montreal,Canada.
 
 
 
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Last Updated: Saturday, 13 August 2005, 16:16 GMT 17:16 UK
Ugandan police charge journalist
KFM presenter Andrew Mwenda (l) with Denis Lukaya, (R) of the Broadcasting Council (Pic: The Monitor)
Andrew Mwenda (l) is due in court on Monday
Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda has been charged with sedition after a radio debate speculating on the death of Sudan's vice-president John Garang.

The authorities also closed KFM radio which aired Mr Mwenda's chat show.

The Ugandan government has warned it will act against journalists who endangered national security.

The Sudanese ex-rebel leader died in a helicopter crash on his way back from talks in Uganda on 30 July. Sudan has repeatedly said it was an accident.

Uganda's Information Minister Nsaba "reminded" journalists on Saturday in an article in the Monitor newspaper "that even where facts may be true, reporting must be informed by an imperative to preserve national interests."

Conspiracy Theories

Mr Mwenda's show on Wednesday aired hours after President Yoweri Museveni had warned the media not to report speculation about the crash.

The decision to close the station the following day has angered opposition leaders.

Politician James Otieno told the BBC the move was "unacceptable", while the Uganda Journalist Association said the government had exceeded its powers.

Conspiracy theories on Mr Garang's death ranging from sabotage to hijackings have raged in the Ugandan media.





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