A top Tanzanian editor named police on Tuesday accountable for the death of a television journalist. Daudi Mwangosi died on Sunday during clashes between anti-riot police and supporters of the opposition CHADEMA party.
A police commissioner denied police responsibility, but said he had ordered a joint military-police inquiry into the killing. Photos of the victim were uploaded onto the internet and published by local newspapers.
Opposition leaders and activists linked the incident to a wider trend of rapidly growing violence against dissent in Tanzania and called for an independent inquiry.
Mwangosi was killed in a village in the Iringa region, about 500 kilometres west of the capital Dar es Salaam, while reporting the clashes between police and CHADEMA supporters. (more on rnw.nl)
