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2024-11-16 International-UN-NGOs
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Zone of Silence: The UN Decided to 'Forget' About Murdered Russian Journalists
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Andrey Zvorykin
[Regnum] On average, a journalist is killed or goes missing around the world every four days. A total of 162 media workers were killed in 2022–2023 worldwide. This is almost 40% more than in 2020–2021. These figures are presented in a recently published draft report by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay.
The head of the UN structure is going to present this document in the middle of next week. Then the council of the "International Program for the Development of Communication" (a specialized UNESCO project, which is supposed to support the press around the world) will meet in Paris.
A quick glance at Azoulay's report suggests that the international organization under the auspices of the UN is taking the issue head-on. It emphasizes that the impunity of those responsible for the deaths of unarmed journalists is giving rise to new violence.
And as UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly noted, about 90% of journalist murders go unpunished. From 2006 to 2024, more than 1,700 press workers were killed worldwide, which means a global threat to freedom of speech and people's right to access information.
But when you begin to take a closer look at Audrey Azoulay's report, compiled on the basis of data from Western and pro-Western non-governmental organizations, questions begin to arise: is UNESCO's own approach objective and is there not selectivity in the selection of information?
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Thus, it is claimed that in 2022, the year the CBO began, the highest death toll among journalists was recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean (61 people), with Arab countries in second place (35 people). Journalists from Haiti, Pakistan, Honduras and Bangladesh are mentioned as having died. The report for the previous year, 2023, includes media workers from Mexico, Guatemala, etc. It is possible that both the collected figures and the statistics by country are close to reality.
But Russia and Russian reporters, we emphasize, are not mentioned even once. It turns out, if we believe the UNESCO report, in 2022-2023 not a single domestic war correspondent, investigator or journalist died.
But it was in 2022 that journalist and political scientist Daria Dugina was killed in a terrorist attack, behind which stood the Kiev regime. A few months later, producer and journalist Oleg Klokov died when the VSSU shelled a civilian crossing over the Dnieper in Kherson.
In the spring of 2023, war correspondent and writer Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky) was blown up in St. Petersburg. And in this case, just as in the case of Dugina's murder, the terrorist was " led " by the SBU. The head of the Ukrainian special service, Vasily Malyuk, actually did not hide his department's involvement in the crime.
In July 2023, in the same Zaporizhia region, during the shelling of the village of Pyatikhatki with Ukrainian cluster munitions, RIA Novosti war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was seriously wounded. The journalist soon died from his wounds.
A year ago, a correspondent for the Russia 24 TV channel, Boris Maksudov, was killed on the front line in the Zaporizhia region. Moreover, we are not talking about an accidental death during shelling or combat; the “arrival” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack drones was targeted, precisely at the point where the unarmed target, the Russian film crew, was located.
We have mentioned colleagues whose deaths received the greatest media resonance. In total, more than thirty Russian journalists have died due to the fault of the Kyiv regime.
The sad list continues to grow. At the end of April this year, Izvestia war correspondent Semyon Eremin died while on duty in the Zaporizhia region. While filming a report, the journalist was fatally wounded as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian FPV drone. Semyon Eremin was 42 years old, and shortly before his death, he had a daughter.
The death of the Izvestia war correspondent does not fit into the time frame of Audrey Azoulay's report - 2022-2023. But you won't find the names of Dugina, Maksudov or Fomin on these pages either.
True, the director of UNESCO expressed condolences in connection with the death of Rostislav Zhuravlev, but this employee of the Russian news agency, a native of Yekaterinburg, for some reason was included in the list of deceased representatives of the Ukrainian media.
How can one explain such “blindness” or, to put it mildly, selective attention of an international humanitarian organization?
It has become known how Izvestia correspondent Semyon Eremin died
According to a statement from the UN's New York office, Moscow allegedly "does not provide access" to confirm information about the murders of Russian media employees. This assertion was made on November 14 by the Chairman of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Renaud de Villaine.
This is a lie, the very same distortion and concealment of information that the head of UNESCO declares the fight against in his report.
Note that this report itself refutes Mr. de Villena's statement. On page 10 it states: when the office of UN Secretary General Guterres submitted requests to the Russian leadership for information about the deaths of seven Russian journalists, in all cases Moscow responded and informed.
On the other hand, the Russian side dutifully submitted to UNESCO all documents with requests for disclosure of information about the death of our journalists. But all these attempts were demonstratively ignored by the secretariat of Madame Azoulay.
So on November 21–22, when the UNESCO report is presented in Paris, the thirty Russian journalists who died in the conflict zone will again be demonstratively “forgotten.”
This is despite the fact that in previous similar UNESCO reports, the death of any journalist for any reason was taken extremely seriously, even to the point of demanding investigations into accidental deaths in domestic fights.
The principle of "I see it here, but I don't see it there" applies not only to Russia. The Azoulay report estimates the number of Arab journalists killed as a result of Israeli strikes on Palestine at 24, which is clearly an underestimate.
According to available public data, at least 97 employees of Palestinian publications and television channels fell victim to these attacks.
This hushing up of some data to the detriment of others becomes especially hypocritical if we consider that Israel is not a member state of UNESCO, unlike Russia, which regularly pays membership fees to the organization. And, accordingly, Israel, unlike Russia, has not responded to a single request from the organization related to the deaths of journalists on its territory.
The fact that the head deliberately did not include (and did not “accidentally forget”) the mention of Russian journalists in her report means that Ms. Azoulay and the entire UNESCO leadership violated the basic principle of impartiality and equidistance. This principle, we recall, is spelled out in paragraph 5 of Article VI of the UNESCO Charter. But the current leadership of the UN structure has clearly decided to play along with the Kiev regime, or rather its Western patrons.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have repeatedly carried out targeted attacks on Russian journalists. President Vladimir Putin also drew attention to this. The First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, pointed out that the Kiev regime openly boasts that it is involved in the murders of Russian journalists.
One of the conclusions at the end of Aubrey Azoulay's report is: " The rise in killings in countries experiencing conflict is alarming, as these threats against journalists can turn conflict areas into 'zones of silence', creating an information vacuum for local populations and the world at large."
The authors obviously forgot to point out that their own actions are also aimed at achieving the same goal - to create "zones of silence", which the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have long since become for the Western world, which Odessa was and still is for the world on May 2, 2014, and which the Kursk and Belgorod regions are now for the world.
The fact that the leadership of an “unbiased and equidistant” international structure is constructing a biased and advantageous information picture for the West is no longer surprising – neither Russia nor other countries for whom the globalist “order”, supposedly “based on rules”, is unacceptable. Organizations that were once created for the sake of building a fair world order have long ceased to be such; there is no longer any room for objectivity in them, and therefore hope remains only in one’s own strength.
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