SWEDISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
Ulf Stroemberg, a cameraman for Sweden's TV4, was shot to death when two masked men armed with Kalashnikovs rushed into the house he was sharing with other Swedish journalists, AP reports. They also took a satellite telephone and thousands of dollars, according to Reuters. The killing comes barely a week after four journalists were killed at an Afghanistan "checkpoint" and three reporters were killed the week before that. The Committee to Protect Journalists keeps a list of the 21 journalists killed so far this year. (Not yet including the Stroemberg death last night.) The list includes seven in Afghanistan, two each in Algeria, the Phillipines and Yugoslavia and one for each of the following: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Thailand and the United States. The one on U.S. soil was William Biggart, a free-lance photographer killed when the second tower fell in downtown Manhattan. CPJ also compiles a list of journalists deaths they rank as "uncomfirmed," meaning it is unclear if the journalists was killed because of their work. Among them is the photo editor for The Sun tabloid, who died of inhalation anthrax. There was a total of 24 killed in 2000.
- posted by Amy @ 11/27/2001 08:54:00 AM