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Contributor [1]
Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
119 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Malawi's presidential and parliamentary general elections in 2004 promise to be ugly and brutal. Last week in Blantyre, the militant “Young Democrats” - a wing of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) - brutally beat up a local newspaper journalist and robbed him of his two cameras and a cellular phone.

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Advocacy & Campaigns [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/16389 [5]
Country: 
Malawi [6]

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