We have an interesting situation in that we are funded in the DRC by the National Endowment for Democracy, the project manager of which is not allowed to visit the Congo. He is denied a visa every time he applies. The last time I was in the DRC, I decided to visit the national museum on the last day. I thought it would be a quiet visit and I was verbally attacked by members of the presidential guard who accused me of being an agent of the CIA.
That is the type of environment we're talking about. When we were coordinating that initial forum, it was touch and go as to whether the forum was going to happen, whether we were going to be shut down. The linchpin was that our ambassador at the time, Madame Ginette Martin, all four-foot-nothing of her, showed up at that forum and made it clear that the international community, to General Dallaire's point, was watching and paying close attention to what was happening to journalists as a strong, leading indicator of the bellwether of democracy in that country.
When it comes to the kinds of concerns you're citing, I would encourage more intervention, not less, more scrutiny and a robust process that is tracking some of these issues and showing how the government is manipulating Internet access in order to achieve its goals.
There have been egregious abuses of journalists, journalists who have been killed and disappeared, and these issues are not getting the attention of the international community in the way they should.