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HomeNews News 100 flowers of repression bloom as Ethiopia moves to gag press ahead of elections

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, admitted this month that his government had jammed Voice of America’s broadcasting in the country’s Amharic language.
The reasons Meles provided for targeting the station were outrageous, even by Ethiopian standards.
He likened the VOA, the US international public information broadcaster with a track record of professional reporting, to the Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) — the infamous radio station that incited violence throughout the Rwandan genocide. Read the story

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