What is free press in Rwanda?

Laetitia Bader from Human Rights Watch accuses me of justifying restrictions imposed on independent media in Rwanda by the RPF government. I do not know how she came to this conclusion. But I have a fundamental philosophical difference with her. I believe that freedom is not a gift to the governed from their rulers. It is, as Kwame Nkrumah wrote in Africa Must Unite, the precious reward, the shining trophy of struggle and sacrifice. Freedom of the press in Rwanda will not come from the magnanimity of the government but from the struggle and sacrifice by its journalists.

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