Any future for Burundi's media after presidential election? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Burundi's privately-owned radio stations are still silent although President Pierre Nkurunziza succeeded in forcing the country to hold an election giving him a third term. Reporters Without Borders calls for the rapid and unconditional reopening of the media and guarantees for the safe return of all journalists who fled abroad.
Embassy Row Online Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
Head of Burundi's most popular commercial radio station arrested Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders condemns leading radio journalist Bob Rugurika's arbitrary detention for the past week and the charges brought against him, which include complicity in the murder of three Italian nuns last September.
International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media workers and human rights defenders in Burundi, most recently the serious incidents in which human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa survived an attempt on his life while journalist Esdras Ndikumana was the victim of a brutal attack by police and intelligence officials.
SOS Media Burundi's dangerous reporting mission Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Almost the only relief for those in search of news in Burundi is to be found at SOS Media Burundi, a collective of journalists that emerged spontaneously within 48 hours of the destruction of the radio stations during the May 2014 coup attempt
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1 Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.