Media Group to Ethiopia: Stop Jamming VOA Broadcasts

An international media group is calling on Ethiopia to top jamming VOA broadcasts.

The head of the International Federation of Journalists, Aidan White, on Friday condemned Ethiopia’s bandits restrictions on broadcasts by VOA’s Amharic language service.

Chief Bandit & War Criminal Meles Zenawi

White called the tyrants’ jamming “unprofessional” and “intolerant.”  He also said it goes against bandits claims that Ethiopia is committed to press freedom.

The Ethiopiantyrants began interfering with VOA’s broadcasts in February. The chief bandit Meles Zenawi has accused VOA Amharic of trying to destabilize his government.

The United States has rejected  Meles’ claim as “baseless.”

In March, VOA started broadcasting its Amharic-language programs to Ethiopia by satellite in order to bypass jamming efforts.

The Voice of America is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government.  It broadcasts more than 1,500 hours of news and other programming every week in 45 languages to an audience of more than 125 million people.

Posted by Atse Yohannes on April 3, 2010. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry