http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-crackdown-has-been-both-measured-and-necessary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-crackdown-has-been-both-measured-and-necessary Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-crackdown-has-been-both-measured-and-necessary/#comment-12729 Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Surveillance and scepticism Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:10:28 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=125#comment-12729 [...] It’s a thorough, careful and-aside from the petrol bomb side of things-accurate feeling report. The activities, recounted in excruciating detail, are clearly intended to portray “the opposition” as an organised, violent, ruthless force aimed at destabilising the government. It fits snugly into the government’s own propaganda strategy. It’s easy to imagine how they’ll roll it out at regional summits or in conversations with the likes of South African President Thabo Mbeki. It’s written to illustrate that the Mugabe government is under threat, and that any restrictions on civil liberties, human rights or freedom of movement are “measured and necessary”-even if such measures include beating activists, arresting them and holding them indefinitely. [...]

]]> http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-crackdown-has-been-both-measured-and-necessary/#comment-10358 Patrick Smith Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:38:37 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=125#comment-10358 Good afternoon,
I’m a reporter on the British journalism magazine Press Gazette and an avid reader of this blog. If possible I’d like to write a story about how you use the blog to highlight issues affecting ordinary people in Zimbabwe.
You also seem quite critical of the foreign media, and I’d be interested to find out your views on how newspapers and broadcastes in Britain are covering Mugabe’s regime and the opposition to it.
If you would liek to speak to me, anonymously if preferred, my number is 44(0)275492574 or my email is psmith@pressgazette.co.uk.
Regards,

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