(JED/IFEX) – In a letter to Claudel-André Lubaya, governor of Western Kasai province, JED protested his insulting of a journalist. In the course of a 30 October 2000 press conference which he called in Kananga (the main town in Western Kasai province), while responding to a query concerning a disagreement between himself and his assistant, […]
(JED/IFEX) – In a letter to Claudel-André Lubaya, governor of Western Kasai province, JED protested his insulting of a journalist.
In the course of a 30 October 2000 press conference which he called in Kananga (the main town in Western Kasai province), while responding to a query concerning a disagreement between himself and his assistant, Governor Lubaya said that Joli-Ambroise Musuet, coordinator of Radio-Télévision Kasaï Horizons (KHRT) and local correspondent for the daily “La Référence Plus”, “has an educational problem.”
In JED’s assessment, the comments made by the governor of Western Kasai province show a lack of respect for the journalist’s work.
On 14 August, an unidentified Zimbabwean colonel (a member of the Zimbabwean military contingent which is allied with Kinshasa’s troops in their fight against the armed rebellion) uttered a death threat against Musuet. The journalist had denounced the inhuman and degrading treatment inflicted against a group of Western Kasai journalists by Zimbabwean soldiers (see IFEX alert of 1 September 2000).
