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– Media clampdown intensified ahead of Burundi referendum (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 18, 2018

Burundi's landscape, prior to the referendum to revise its constitution, was interfused with divisive language, hate speech, intimidation, threats and violence against the media which included the banning of broadcasting stations.
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