The struggle over truth – Rwanda and the BBC
研究了卢旺达政府如何通过立法、压制和利用国际声誉来维护其官方叙事，并打压独立媒体和公民社会，以BBC事件为例说明政府与媒体的冲突。
Governments and Media often don't get along very well, particularly when the press challenges core political positions. This is certainly the case in Rwanda, where information and communication management is an important political weapon used by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to protect its hold on power. The RPF has developed a coherent and comprehensive narrative on the past, present, and future of the country and its citizens, and tightly policing this ‘truth’ is an essential ingredient of its political strategy. Domestically, this control is achieved through legislation on ‘divisionism’ and ‘genocide ideology’, as well as through repression that relegates alternative views to the ‘hidden transcript’.1 Independent media and critical civil society organizations have been eliminated. Internationally, the narrative is protected by the genocide credit the regime exploits and by systematically and at times aggressively countering challenges to the ‘truth’, directly through government statements or by using foreign lobbyists.2 It also benefits from Rwanda's adherence to neo-liberal economic policies and its contribution to international peacekeeping operations.