60 REPORTERS DIED IN TWO YEARS IN IRAQ

15.01.2006 [16:52]
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According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Iraq war has claimed the lives of 60 reporters in two years, only six fewer than the number of journalists killed in 20 years of fighting in Vietnam.

As stated, deaths of journalists in Iraq are near Vietnam toll. So, if 66 journalists were killed in 1955-1975s in Vietnam, the number of died journalists in 2003-2005 in Iraq reached 60.

At least 22 journalists, most of them Iraqis, died last year, the British “Sunday Times” reported, referring to CPJ.

60 REPORTERS DIED IN TWO YEARS IN IRAQ

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