Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:35:51 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: Congo.


Liam wrote, on 30.11.

> > 11/30/97 12:09 Congo shutting down international radio relays Congo
>> said it will shut down all local FM transmissions of international
>> radio stations as of midnight Sunday. The government said that the
>> international media were campaigning against President Laurent
>> Kabila's government and was spreading disharmony among the Congolese
>>  people. Radio France Internationale, the British Broadcasting Corp.
>>  and the Voice of America all use private local radio stations to
>> transmit news broadcasts in FM in Kinshasa, Congo's capital.{CNN/iN}
>
>                                                       Liam R.Flynn
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They're making a grave mistake, unfortunately. The AFDL government
in Congo absolutely has shown promise and has the support of a
majority of the people there. And there *is* an awful campaign
of vilification going on in the US imperialist and other
imperialist media against it - one more sign that it may be
quite good, btw. But trying to stop people from hearing these
attacks by no means will help bring harmony. A "classical" error,
on the part of people who apparently have good intentions.

Mao Zedong always said it was necessary for the people to
see and listen to the negative things too; in his time, there
was published in China the "Reference News" - for CPC members
at least - with excerpts from foreign (capitalist) news
reports etc (edition some 500,000 copies).

Rolf M.  



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