Shoot the messenger

I've been away travelling for a while, but I'm back, and will try and post as often as I can.

In this news this weekend was the death of two BBC journalists - one in Somalia and another in Afghanistan. Both were murdered.

According to Reporters Without Borders, the number of journalists killed rose 244 per cent in five years (ending 2007).

"At least 86 journalists were killed around the world in 2007. The figure has risen steadily since 2002 - from 25 to 86 (+ 244%) - and is the highest since 1994, when 103 journalists were killed, nearly half of them in the Rwanda genocide, about 20 in Algeria’s civil war and a dozen in the former Yugoslavia.

More than half those killed in 2007 died in Iraq."

Grim stats indeed...


Image from Reporters Without Borders