The president has publicly claimed that Mphwiyo's shooting was "a planned and targeted attack aimed at silencing him and the government in the fight against high levels of corruption and fraud".
The laws, Melkonyants suggested, are a means of silencing the last independent voices in Russia through bureaucracy.
But at least John Major had the decency not to hit out at Neil Kinnock in person (more than one adviser is said to have cautioned against it, warning that Paddy Ashdown might respond to an outbreak of violence by deploying his Marine commando skills, silencing his fellow leaders with a single deadly blow).
ABUSE of free speech by the powerful arouses public ire whether the culprits are newspaper proprietors bullying politicians or thin-skinned tycoons silencing their critics with libel writs.
The government in Argentina, where, controversially, Mr Oviedo has spent the past six months as a political exile, would also like to be rid of him, as it showed last month by banishing him to remote Tierra del Fuego, in the hope of silencing his indiscretions.
Even more pressing military tasks, such as silencing North Korea's or Iraq's artillery, might also be undertaken by the Crusader.
The army also reconquered 55% of the town, Mr Arafat's "temporary capital", and dynamited the PA's main radio station, a symbolic act aimed at silencing Palestinian "incitement".
They did this by silencing Taxol-suppressing genes that were usually active in those cancer cells.RNAi drugs work by mugging another sort of RNA one of the classes of the molecule discovered decades ago.
The Chinese government has a strong interest in catching and silencing the troublemakers among the mice, and this special report has shown how much effort and ingenuity it is putting into achieving this.
If only someone would now engineer a way to mute all those vuvuzelas.(Photo credit AFP UPDATE: It has come to Babbage's attention that some wily engineers are already claiming to have had initial success with silencing the blasted trumpets.
