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| Left: Mugabe; Right: Hun Xe |
2012-01-30
Bridgette Bugalo
Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe has been ranked 117, on Press freedom in the world, improving by six notches from 2010, despite constant arrests of media practitioners last year, according to a report released by Reporters Without Borders.
Zimbabwe is tied on position 117 together with Cambodia, Fiji, Oman and Venezuela.
The international journalistic body ranked Finland and Norway as the most democratic, coming first and second respectively, while Eritria (179) and North Korea (178) were ranked the worst.
“Crackdown was the word of the year 2011. Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much. Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on journalists seemed so numerous.
“The equation is simple; the absence or suppression of civil liberties leads necessarily to the suppression of media freedom. Dictatorships fear and ban information, especially when it may undermine them,” said the report.
Zimbabwe last year had cases where The Standard editor Nevanji Madanhire and reporter Nqaba Matshazi were arrested, while this year two Daily News journalists, reporter Xolisani Ncube and photographer Anne Mpalume, were arrested together with journalists from The Herald.
In an interview with Newsday yesterday Media Institute for Zimbabwe national director Nhlanhla Ngwenya said improvement of Zimbabwe’s media freedom was marginal.
“The improvement has to do particularly with the number of newspapers that are now available in Zimbabwe. Otherwise, the operating environment remains the same. We still remain with a repressive environment that was implemented years ago,” he said.
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists president Dumisani Sibanda said while the licensing of new newspapers had opened up media space, there were still constraints to do with “freeing the airwaves” and the continued existence of legislation that seemed calculated to “muzzle the Press”.
“The existence of legislation like criminal defamation and causing disaffection to the police clause continue to worry us as journalists as they are being used as instruments of repression. To make matters worse, there has not been much in terms of broadcasting reforms,” he said.
The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders, based on the organisation’s assessment of their Press freedom record.
21 comments:
YOUN TRICK IS TO CREATE TWO SIDES IN KHMER POLITICS IN ORDER TO CAMOUFLAGE IT THE REALITY. CPP GANG AND THE OPPOSTION (APART FROM SRP) ARE ALL YOUN ELEMENTS. ALL THE OPPOSITION TO CPP IS SENG THEARY, HUMAN RIGH WATCH PONG CHEAV GUEK, MOM SODANGDO,KEM SOKHA KI-MEDIA AND MANY MORE...HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT KEM SOKHA SITE CALLED ':LET'S GO MEDIA" HAVE ALMOST THE SAME PAGE AS KI-MADIA? HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT KI MEDIA SUPPORT SENG THEARY? THEY ARE SO CLOSE. HAVE YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE DART-GAME? THEY PLAY THE SHOW IN ORDER TO AVOID THOSE TOP KHMER ROUGE GET OUT FROM JUSTICE. SENG THEARY ROLE IS TO OBSTRUCT THE ECCC BY USING THE KHMER IMAGE TO ACCUSE ECCC. AT THE BUTTOM LINE IT IS A YOUN 'S PLAN .KI-MEDIA ATTACKS HUN SEN, USE SRP IMAGE IS TO MAKE KHMER BELEIVE THAT THEY ARE REAL KHMER, BUT IN THE MEAN TIME THEY TRY TO SHAKE UP ECCC WITH SENG THEARY IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THOSE TOP LEADER KHMER ROUGE FROM JUDGING BY ECCC, ESPECIALLY AH EING SARY WHO IS NO DOUBT A 100% YOUN. HE WAS A TOP LEADER YOUN BEHIND THE KHMER ROUGE.
WATCH THEM EVERY MOVE AND USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT!
Ah Hun Sen,
Ah Chor Kbot Cheat. It is time for you to free yourself from being Yuon's slave and save Cambodia from the policy of Vietnamization deployed by vietnam.
Open your one eye and see all Khmer sufferinge emanating from the land grabbing initiated by your bosses Vietnamese businessmen.
Cambodia will become a second Champa soon. So, it is imperative that you wake up Ah Runteas Banh!!
When the runteas Banh, it will banh all your crook families and friends. "Tevada Mean Phneak" just remember that.
8:47 PM
Who are you trying to foul?
You are the one who want to divide Khmer.
We better watch you instead.
how you do express between responsibility and just the tendency to run your foul mouth nonstop! ever heard of disinformation or libeling or slandering someone? there ought to be a rule of this sort of engagement, even cambodia is required. what was srp people thinking? chaotic and no rules? then go live on mars or venus, ok, because on earth, we all live under the rule of law, ok! stop being biased on cambodia, ok!
stupid srp people want a perfect society! even god acknowledged that there is no such thing as perfect society, get educated alrready, please!
all i'm saying is stop being stupid forever, ok! cambodia changed, so is the world! everyone should foster a rule of law society in cambodia, period, no ifs or buts about it, ok! and cambodia is not in the dark ages or stone ages era again, ok! we grew up and evolved, etc, you know!
of course, there are more to cambodia than you and i, and only the rule of law is fair and just for all in cambodia, like it or not, learn to get used to it, ok!
12:42 AM
Can you stop being stupid OK forever. OK OK OK
8:47 PM - You are twisting Khmer viewers' minds. You are a Yuon spy so you can't fool Khmer viewers here. You are so stupid instead to say such a plainly nonsense statement. We watch you, idiot!
Khmer Yeurng!
i think cambodia should call for training in ethics 101 as in good conduct, etc, really! it's time, cambodia. god bless.
8:47PM,12:37AM,12:42AM YOU ARE BOLSHIT < FUCKER YOUR MOM! > SHUT'S FUCKER UP! KHMER PREY NORKOR.
12:37 PM
You are an idiot who is either Ah Cheam Yip or Ah Cheam Yip's student.
Ah Cheam Yip is Ah Doctor Leu Keu, a facilitator for Vietnamization of Cambodia.
Stop considering people who are not "Kan Kdor Ah Kwack Oy Noum" as SRP.
everything starts somewhere, somehow; nobody borns with knowledge from birth, you know!
8:47! don'e we suppose to play along to survive! Or you have other ways?????
AH CPP CAN KISS MY ASS
Pe nah Thom jeang Hun Sen?
4:36AM! chomted kadouy thom!
and stop accusing cambodia to be like other hardcore dictators of the world out there because we are not, you know! please come to cambodia to see for yourself before you accusing us of this or that like those opposition political people, ok! stop being a terrorist with cambodia, ok!
6:00 AM
People only said the truth, not accusing your Yuon's slave boss Ah Kwack Changrai Yor about anything.
How about you stop working as Ah Mey Ah Thong and find a decent job to do.
6:00 AM. Hey Fucker speak normal English, so we can understand you. Were you born in the whore house?
Hi 6.oo AM you are completely right, come to see reality in Cambodia. Kingdom of wonder, we can survive without law, the land of lawless. the dictator HUN SEN is master minded of mafia, Kill own people, destroy own culture, abolish education. Every day khmer die from road accident, gun robbery, social violent, food poisoning, starving and torturing... let see all this reality
Ah ! 6:00 AM
AH !!! K D O R !!!!!!!!!!!
North Korea of SEA
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