Zambian civil rights activist Brebner Changala
has claimed that it is ironic that the Patriotic Front government that came to
power through sustained public meetings is denying the opposition and Zambians
the right of assembly and accused the major national media outlets of caving in
to the “whims of the ruling elite”.
Changala was only recently discharged of a
state-engineered drug trafficking charge, labelling the country’s Drug
Enforcement Commission as a “state-sponsored terrorist organisation on
government pay roll”. He went on to add that the mainstream media in Zambia had
blacked out opposition political parties making participatory democracy
difficult to thrive in the southern African nation.
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