<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Edith,</div><div><br></div><div>With due respect, I disagree with you.</div><div>Western governments always preach this kind of liberty that gives license to all kinds of inflammatory information that agitate people yielding the 2007 type of reactions.</div><div><br></div><div>Whatever the views of people, we must not use the tools of mass communications to incite people to wanton killings in the name of liberty. Even the Western media in their home countries have a code of conduct that includes delayed transmissions during major event such as Super Bowls or even their own elections.</div><div><br></div><div>How was the media call for peace a tool of "oppression"?</div><div>I frankly hold a different view and believe that our media has done us proud. Kenya has structures of government and communication and any aggrieved party has avenues for redress without spread of malicious and unconfirmed rumors that lead to violence and loss of life.</div><div><br></div><div>Sammy Buruchara</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Edith Adera <<a href="mailto:eadera@idrc.ca">eadera@idrc.ca</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, March 11, 2013 11:34 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Sammy Buruchara <<a href="mailto:Buruchara@me.com">Buruchara@me.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum <<a href="mailto:mediaeditors@lists.kictanet.or.ke">mediaeditors@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>, KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [kictanet] Role of the Media in Kenyan Elections<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Listers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For the 2007 elections, Bwana Ndemo is on record here (KICTANET) condemning the role of the media in fueling the violence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 2013, the media played a different role. If you now reflect back – deep and hard – it occurred to me
<span lang="EN-US">that the over-rated, over-hyped, over-done "call for peace" was actually a "tool of oppression"!!
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Why do I say this? Many a Kenyans found themselves speechless and voiceless….you were not given a chance to speak your mind, to question, to freely air your opinions or liberally reflect on the going ons. You were promptly
slapped with the "peace call” which immediately silenced you! Why should I feel silenced by “a call for peace”? Our national anthem talks of “peace and liberty”, what happened to “liberty” during this period?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Most Kenyans locked themselves in their houses, scared stiff of the unknown. Reflecting back it was truly a "silence tool".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In my view, what is going on in Kenya is God’s birth of a NEW KENYA. It is NOT (and I repeat NOT) about THE WINNER or THE LOSERS (Do NOT get me wrong – I don’t mind about that). It is about laying a NEW FOUNDATION for
Kenya that is built on TRUTH (RIGHTEOUSNESS) and JUSTICE, especially during this Jubilee period (50 years of our existence as a nation as we enter into the next 50 years – the next Jubilee).
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">From now on, and as our national anthem aptly states, JUSTICE will truly be our SHIELD and DEFENDER.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sustainable peace (not FALSE PEACE) is built on the foundations of TRUTH (righteousness) and JUSTICE.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reflective Edith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Quote: I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice (Albert Camus)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div>
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