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ABC News Live. The deaths of Hetherington and Hondros, who were hit by shrapnel from a mortar blast on April 20, , led to a focus on first aid. Colleagues of Hetherington set up the organization RISC in his memory, to provide battlefield medical training to freelancers. But it was the horrific actions by the Islamic State militant group in that had perhaps the biggest impact. Videos, shared widely on social media, showed the militants killing journalists and others taken hostage in Syria.
It was an incident that left editors and news executives scrambling for ways to keep journalists safe in conflict zones. One of the first steps was the suspension of dispatching journalists to countries such as Syria, which was at the peak of its civil war. Syria is one of several countries that experienced a popular uprising in the early months of A decade later, many of these countries are among the world's most dangerous for media, as protests have descended into civil war and rival militias and newly installed authoritarian leaders now target journalists.
In total, journalists from those five countries were killed either covering the initial protests or reporting on the resulting unrest and conflict that persisted for the past 10 years, according to data by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In addition, the committee said an increasing number of journalists were being imprisoned. Last year in Malta, Daphne Caruana Galizia , on a similar mission, was killed by a bomb placed in her car. At least four journalists were murdered in Mexico and two in Brazil, and two Palestinian journalists were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during protests in the Gaza Strip, according to the report.
In Syria and Yemen, two countries gripped by civil war, the fewest journalists were killed since Three died in Yemen, while in Syria the committee recorded nine deaths compared with a high of 31 in At the time IFJ started counting in , the federation listed 40 journalists and media workers killed in that year.
Some believed that this was merely a blip. Sadly, this proved not to be. When aggregating all these numbers, the total adds up to a staggering killed in the last thirty years. This equates to about two journalists or media workers killed every week.
In Iraq, which topped the table and acquired the moniker of the most murderous country in the world for journalists, killings of journalists were rare in the first decade of this period. It was not until , at the onset of the Anglo-American invasion, that the numbers started stacking up. Similarly, in Afghanistan the numbers 93 reflect the aftermath of the US invasion in The link between deadly conflicts and a spike in the murders of journalists was also apparent in the civil war in Algeria which kicked off in and ended in — the bulk of the killed journalists died in a short period of three years.
This was also the case of the war in Syria which started in , and is still ongoing, resulting in 96 killed journalists over the last nine years. Other conflicts like the long-running insurgency in Somalia has propelled the country to be the most murderous in Africa for journalists. Equally the pattern of the killing of journalists in Mexico , in most cases at the hands of organised crime, made this country the most dangerous in Latin America, featuring on the IFJ list every year and sometimes with double-digit numbers.
Bearing in mind that journalists have been targeted in big numbers since the s and 80s, Mexico will remain the most dangerous place for journalists in the planet. The patterns of regional variations also lift the veil on how these killings have evolved over the years according to specific variables.
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