http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/world/africa/nigerian-newspaper-weekly-trust-says-army-blocked-distribution.html?ref=world
In a classic move to suppress things it doesn't want to hear, another government has censored (or in this case, stopped distribution altogether) a domestic newspaper. This time, the paper is Weekly Trust, based in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Days earlier, the very same newspaper made accusations about the military, saying generals of using an army barracks for personal use. So in response, the weekly Saturday paper was not allowed to be shipped out to the population thanks to armed soldiers showing up at the door of the Weekly Trust and performing a "routine security action."
Sue Valentine, the Africa program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists which is a watchdog group based in New York said that by destroying the papers, it plants the seeds of rumors and distrust. When you try and cover up corruption charges by doing something that is corrupt, you're bound to get people's attention.When the military shows up and starts going through your paper word by word to look for security risks, the government is risking bad face with other nations because we all know how precious freedom of speech and freedom of the press are to the people in this day and age, especially in a democracy like America.
-Max Kachinske
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