[ga] Re: [CRIS Info] Radio Sagarmatha & the king of Nepal's crack down on politics and news media]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Myriam and all,

  This is sad to read/hear.  Yet sadder yet is AfriNIC from ICANN's
NRO was just granted as a new Regional internet Registry...
See:  http://www.nro.net/archive/news/afrinic-2005.html

Myriam Horngren wrote:

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> Subject: [bytesforall_readers] Radio Sagarmatha & the king of Nepal's
> crack down on politics and news media
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:46:28 -0700
> From: George Lessard <media@xxxxxxx>
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> Nepal's king cracks down on politics and news media
>
> Instead of the usual spicy mix of current affairs and politics, the
> subject of Radio Sagarmatha's talk show on Saturday night was as
> bland as rice. In fact, the subject was rice: the differences, as
> explained by a scientist, between golden, wild and other varieties.
> That was the only topic the independent Nepali FM station felt safe
> to discuss. "Normally I don't do that kind of program," a 31-year-old
> journalist at the station said, laughing nervously as a soldier
> listened. When the soldier - one of six lounging around the station -
> moved off, the smile fell away. "Our hands are tied," the journalist
> said. Six days ago Nepal's king ended the country's 15-year
> experiment with democracy
> and took power for himself, imposing a state of emergency and
> suspending a host of civil liberties, including freedom of expression.
>
> [...]
>
> All of the community radio stations that sprang up in the 1990's are
> locked up, playing only music or discussing things like rice. The
> BBC's popular Nepali news service has been stopped, and Netra K. C.,
> its reporter in the western city of Nepalganj, has been detained,
> according to human rights activists. Newspapers have been reduced to
> editorializing about safely banal subjects, like the weather or clean
> socks, or resorting to metaphor to make their case.
>
> "The sudden epidemic of tree-felling along Katmandu's streets is
> drastic, misguided and not consonant with the needs of the
> population," began an editorial last week in the weekly Nepali Times.
> It ended: "Because the damage has been done, can we ask the concerned
> authority to promptly correct the move and bring back greenery?"
>
> The paper's editor, Kunda Dixit, said journalists of his generation
> had faced similar restrictions before democracy was introduced. They
> learned then to weigh every word, to write between the lines, he
> said, but in the intervening years grew accustomed to being free.
>
> "I've unlearned how to be guarded," Mr. Dixit said at the end of an
> interview. "If I've said anything subversive, please take it out."
>
> Source: Amy Waldman, The New York Times [requires free registration]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/international/asia/08nepal.html
>
> MULTIMEDIA
> Video:  Nepal Bans Criticism of Security Forces
>
> [may only be accessible from the main story page]
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> Radio Sagarmatha
> http://www.radiosagarmatha.org/
> Making Waves
> Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change
> RADIO SAGARMATHA
> http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/pdsmakingwaves/sld-1892.html
> Radio Sagarmatha - Nepal
> http://www.unites.org/cfapps/WSIS/story.cfm?Sid=11
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