The mass media war and the use of the Internet as a new battlefield were the topics on the first day of an international gathering of war correspondents taking place at the "Jose Marti" International Institute of Journalism in Havana. The first session was attended by Orlando Fundora, President of the World Peace Movement.
9 November, 2006
Juvenal Balan Neyra
The mass media war and the use of the Internet as a new battlefield were the topics on the first day of an international gathering of war correspondents taking place at the "Jose Marti" International Institute of Journalism in Havana. The first session was attended by Orlando Fundora, President of the World Peace Movement.
Jose Dos Santos, first vice president of the Cuban Association of Journalists (UPEC), addressed the meeting on behalf of the Latin American Federation of Journalists. He pointed out that their colleagues are being killed in Latin America despite the absence of internal wars or foreign military invasions.
The Commission to Investigate Attempts against Journalists denounced that nine reporters and photographers had been assassinated in six nations of the continent during the first six months of 2006. Mexico heads the list with three victims. Dos Santos added that the figure for the year will most likely be similar to 1995, when 20 journalists were murdered.
The UPEC vice president said 76 media professionals have reportedly died in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003; 55 of them Iraqis. He noted the figure is considerably higher than all the correspondents killed during the Second World War, or during the two decades of the Vietnam War.
Juvenal Balan Neyra
The mass media war and the use of the Internet as a new battlefield were the topics on the first day of an international gathering of war correspondents taking place at the "Jose Marti" International Institute of Journalism in Havana. The first session was attended by Orlando Fundora, President of the World Peace Movement.
Jose Dos Santos, first vice president of the Cuban Association of Journalists (UPEC), addressed the meeting on behalf of the Latin American Federation of Journalists. He pointed out that their colleagues are being killed in Latin America despite the absence of internal wars or foreign military invasions.
The Commission to Investigate Attempts against Journalists denounced that nine reporters and photographers had been assassinated in six nations of the continent during the first six months of 2006. Mexico heads the list with three victims. Dos Santos added that the figure for the year will most likely be similar to 1995, when 20 journalists were murdered.
The UPEC vice president said 76 media professionals have reportedly died in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003; 55 of them Iraqis. He noted the figure is considerably higher than all the correspondents killed during the Second World War, or during the two decades of the Vietnam War.
