取材で犠牲になった記者１０年で１０００人超

本当は，もっともっと多い．

１０年で記者１０００人が犠牲　イラクでは１３８人死亡

2007年03月07日07時13分
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0307/JJT200703070003.html

ジャーナリストの保護推進を目指す非営利団体、国際報道安全研究所（ＩＮＳＩ、本部ブリュッセル）は６日、過去１０年間に取材活動中に死亡した報道関係者の総数が、全世界で１０００人に達したとする報告書を公表した。
１９９６年１月から２００６年６月までのジャーナリストや助手、通訳らの死亡状況について、各国政府や軍の記録などを基に調査。戦争や武力抗争に巻き込まれて死亡したのは４人に１人で、大半は平和時に自国で取材中に殺害された。死因の半数近くは銃撃によるもので、事件の３分の２が犯人の特定に至っていないという。
最も危険な地域はイラクで、１３８人が死亡。次いで、ロシア８８人、コロンビア７２人、フィリピン５５人などとなっている。（時事）

イラク人のジャーナリストはもっとたくさん亡くなっていますね．
●ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS

それから，イラクで殺害された知識人のリストです．
●List of killed, threatened or kidnapped Iraqi Academics

これらの情報は，「少なくとも」ということです．闇に葬られたジャーナリストの数は知れず，報道管制にメディアの買収，いったい私たちの元にどれだけの真実が伝えられているのでしょうか？
そして，まだまだ受難は続きそうです．

ちなみに，いつも思ってるんだけどさ，せっかくネットで配信しているのにどうしてデータやソースにリンク貼らないんだろうね．
もっともっと，情報を共有しやすいように工夫しようよ．

情報ソースはこちらです．
●Killing The Messenger: The Deadly Price of News

One thousand news media personnel have died trying to cover the news around the world in the past 10 years*.

Only one in four died in war and other armed conflicts.

The great majority died in peacetime, covering the news in their own countries.

Most of those killed were murdered because of their jobs; eliminated by hostile authorities or criminals.

Nine out of 10 murderers in the past decade have never been prosecuted.

The news media death toll has increased steadily since 2000. The last full year covered by the report, 2005, was a record with 147 dead. It has since emerged that 2006 was even worse, with 167 fatalities, according to INSI's annual tally.

The Top 21 bloodiest countries over the past 10 years have been Iraq (138), Russia (88), Colombia (72), Philippines (55), Iran ** (54), India (45), Algeria (32), the former republic of Yugoslavia (32), Mexico (31), Pakistan (29), Brazil (27), USA (21), Bangladesh (19), Ukraine (17), Nigeria, Peru, Sierra Leone & Sri Lanka (16), Afghanistan, Indonesia & Thailand (13)

Shooting was by far the greatest cause of death, accounting for almost half the total. Bombing, stabbing, beating, torture, strangulation and decapitation were also used to silence reporting. Some men and women disappeared, their fate unknown.

In war, it was much safer to be embedded with an army than not - independent news reporters, so-called unilaterals, accounted for 92 per cent of the dead.

Overall, armed forces - regular or irregular - police and officials accounted for 22 per cent of killings.

The death toll was evenly split between press and broadcast. But news agencies, which are fewer in number, were relatively badly hit with six per cent of the total.

Most of those who died were on staff -- 91 per cent against 9 per cent freelance -- and one-third fell near their home, office or hotel.