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A Hard Line.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Tyranny: Zimbabwe's Daily News, the nation's only independent daily, closed down 10 days ago. The paper lost its fight against President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Seven more journalists from the paper were charged by the government on Tuesday. Their crime? Operating without a license. In all, 16 of the 45 reporters employed by the Daily News have been arrested.
"It is like losing a son," said Wilf Mbanga, founder of the paper, in an op-ed in Britain's Guardian.
Mbanga knew he was on a "collision course" with Mugabe's government when he founded the Daily News four years ago. From the start, ruling Zanu PF party hoods began a daily campaign of burning copies of the paper, beating up readers and arresting vendors.
In addition to the routine jailings of reporters, editors and managers, the Daily News' presses were destroyed by anti-tank explosives in January 2001. Later that year its offices in Harare were bombed.
On Sept. 20, the government made its final assault. The Supreme Court ruled the paper was operating illegally, having failed to register under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy act. Right after the ruling, the police seized the paper's equipment.
And thus Mugabe silenced the country's only independent daily, which ...
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