report di RSF sui giornalisti colpiti in Iraq

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The war in Iraq : the most deadly one for the media since Vietnam
56 journalists and media assistants killed, 29 kidnapped

http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Etude_Irak_Eng_PDF.pdf

Iraq is the world's most dangerous country for journalists and the place 
where the most are kidnapped. 56 journalists and media assistants have been 
killed there since the fighting began on 22 March 2003 and 29 kidnapped.
The Iraq conflict is the deadliest inter-state war for journalists since the 
one in Vietnam, when 63 were killed, but over a period of 20 years 
(1955-75). During the fighting in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95), 49 
journalists were killed doing their job.
57 journalists and 20 media assistants were killed in Algeria between 1993 
and 1996 but this was during an internal (civil) war.
The media was targeted from the first day of the fighting in Iraq, when 
cameraman Paul Moran, of the Australian TV network ABC, was killed by a car 
bomb on 22 March 2003. Eleven journalists and media assistants were killed 
in March and April that year. The situation then gradually improved until 
early the following year, when bomb blasts and attacks by armed groups 
increased throughout the country, with nine killed in May 2004. Almost every 
month since then, one or two journalists have been killed, nine of them so 
far this year.
This report highlights these journalists, who were murdered for simply doing 
their job. What media outlets did they work for and what were the 
circumstances of their death ?
It also gives an update on those who have been kidnapped (more than in any 
other war), who include nationals of many countries, some of which are not 
involved in the fighting.