[A-DX] fwd: [dxld] Zimbabwe SW Radio-jammers From China

["Thomas M. Rösner" <dl8aam@xxxxxx>]

73, Tom

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>From: "tribby2001" <paulcl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:31:35 -0000
>Subject: [dxld] Zimbabwe SW Radio-jammers From China
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>
>excerpts from: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0330/p01s01-woaf.html
>
>China or its businesses have reportedly:
>
>? provided a radio-jamming device for a military base outside the 
>capital, preventing independent stations from balancing state-
>controlled media during the election campaign;
>
>? begun to deliver 12 fighter jets and 100 trucks to Zimbabwe's Army 
>amid a Western arms embargo; and
>
>? designed President Robert Mugabe's new 25-bedroom mansion, complete 
>with helipad. The cobalt-blue tiles for its swooping roof, which 
>echoes Beijing's Forbidden City, were a Chinese gift.
>
>Here in Zimbabwe, China also may be helping to support one of 
>Africa's more oppressive regimes. The radio-jamming equipment that 
>has prevented the independent Short Wave Radio Africa from 
>broadcasting into the country is Chinese, according to the US-funded 
>International Broadcast Bureau.
>
>Reporters Without Borders, a group dedicated to freedom of the press, 
>based in Paris, had this to say about the jamming: "Thanks to support 
>from China, which exports its repressive expertise, Robert Mugabe's 
>government has yet again just proved itself to be one of the most 
>active predators of press freedom."
>
>"I find it hard to believe the Chinese would push hard for free and 
>fair elections - it's not the standard they're known for."
>
>A Chinese diplomat here insists the equipment didn't come from China.
>
>"The government says, 'The Chinese are coming, and they'll bring in 
>billions of dollars in investment, and soon everything will be fully 
>restored,' "
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