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Journalists Beiing Killed at an "Astonishing Pace"
2012-05-04
And yet they support open borders and multiculturalism - acceptance of ideologies that are used for the justification of murder.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the "astonishing pace" at which journalists are being attacked and murdered - 67 killed in 2011 and 22 more deaths since the beginning of the year

U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
called the attacks "outrageous" and urged all countries to prevent and prosecute violence against the media and take action to ensure the safety of journalists and freedom of the press.

At Thursday's U.N. commemoration of Press Freedom Day, Ban asked the assembled diplomats, members of the media and civil society representatives to observe a minute of silence "in honor of the journalists who were killed in the line of duty last year."

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, 179 journalists were incarcerated
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in 2011, a 20 percent increase over 2010 and the highest level since 1990, Ban said.

"Countless others face intimidation, harassment and censorship at the hands of governments, corporations and powerful individuals seeking to preserve their power or hide wrongdoings and misdeeds," the secretary-general said.

Ireland's President Michael Higgins, a former broadcaster, told the commemoration the deaths demonstrate the risks that journalists and media workers face and "their vulnerability to intimidation, violence and persecution."

"Many were victims of assassinations, while the circumstances of other killings may never be fully explained," he said.

Reporters Without Borders updated its list of "predators of the freedom to inform" to 41 individuals and group. It said the first quarter of 2012 clearly showed that the world's predators led by Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
and Somalia's Islamist militias "are capable of behaving like outrageous butchers."

The media advocacy organization, based in La Belle France, decried the increase in attacks and killings of news providers - up from 57 murders in 2010 to 67 in 2011, and 22 so far this year including five journalists killings in Somalia, four in Syria, and two each in Bangladesh, Brazil and India.

In Somalia's capital Mogadishu, dozens of Somali journalists met Thursday in somber silence to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, a meeting that took place only hours after the killing of the fifth Somali journalist this year. Two gunnies shadowed Somali radio journalist Farhan Abdulle after he left his station late Wednesday, then shot him dead.

The killings also continued in Mexico, which has become one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists amid a raging drug war. The bodies of two news photographers were found dismembered in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Thursday, less than a week after the killing in the state of a news hound for an investigative newsmagazine..
Posted by:Huperemp Phinenter5583

#9  It's easy to see just by looking, that "Bashi" has the signature slender fingers of an optometrist.
Posted by: canalzone   2012-05-04 22:28  

#8  
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-05-04 21:08  

#7  Not if Holder hears you.
Posted by: gorb   2012-05-04 18:31  

#6  Can we snicker nastily, TW?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-05-04 17:40  

#5  Say, could we put a bounty on NYT reporters?


No. You know better, Mr. Clinton. We do not advocate even the threat of violence toward American citizens here at Rantburg. Do not do so again, even for rhetorical purposes.

Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-05-04 17:09  

#4  Somewhere in all of this, the phrase:
"The only reason some people are alive is the fact it is against the law to kill them."
Say, could we put a bounty on NYT reporters?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2012-05-04 10:57  

#3  no, better: Reporters without Clues
Posted by: Ptah   2012-05-04 10:24  

#2  Reporters against Western Civilization...
Posted by: Ptah   2012-05-04 10:24  

#1  "Reporters Without Borders" A stable Border creates secure places, and prevents war.

"Reporters for war" should be their real name.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-05-04 09:06  

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