"Information blockade promotes spread of rumors" - Arena

OK, here's where I saw the item about information restrictions promoting wild rumors, mentioned in my long post earlier (my translation):

Information blockade promotes the spread of rumors 15.05.2005
The end result of the "media liberalization" proposed by the authorities this spring has become absolutely apparent, and its appearance is not pleasing. The silencing by the government of information about the events in Andijan probably killed off the last hopes even among the most incorrigible optimists.

The replacement of news reports on Russian TV channels with "musical breaks" and the blocking of websites did not leave any doubt about the fact that the words "liberalization" and "freedom" are interpreted by official Tashkent in ways directly opposite to their true meanings.

This is incredible, because already on the morning of May 13th, few people under the sunny, cloudless skies in Uzbekistan didn't know about what had happened. Weighing out strawberries, sellers at the bazaars said hurriedly with a concerned expression, "You know there's a war in Andijan!" And in the East, as is well known, if something is being talked about in the bazaars, then everyone knows about it. [...]

The report goes on to talk about the specific section of the Uzbek constitution that's being violated by the media restrictions and makes other interesting points, but I don't have the energy to translate it all and thought this was the best part of the piece.