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
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group "With
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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.
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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