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A review by chalicotherex
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
5.0
Very compelling and hard to put down. Chronicles life in a dictatorship in the 21st century.
Paul Kagame's personality cult is so in control that one of the only ways to criticize him is to offer outlandish praise.
Maybe not as brutal as what you hear in similar stories out of North Korea (though there is the practice of kufaniya, the killing of child soldiers so you can't be prosecuted for using them) but it's all the more chilling because the international aid community is completely aware of what's happening, and propping the system up.
Paul Kagame's personality cult is so in control that one of the only ways to criticize him is to offer outlandish praise.
Maybe not as brutal as what you hear in similar stories out of North Korea (though there is the practice of kufaniya, the killing of child soldiers so you can't be prosecuted for using them) but it's all the more chilling because the international aid community is completely aware of what's happening, and propping the system up.