Iraq: More journalists killed than during Vietnam war

Two institutions release figures showing that more journalists’ lives have been taken in two and a half years of war in Iraq than during 20 years of the Vietnam War.

According to Peter Feuilherade’ analysis (BBC Monitoring Media Services), “The number of journalists and support staff killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003 now exceeds the toll among the media during two decades of fighting in Vietnam from 1955 to 1975, according to separate reports from two international journalists’ organizations: The Brussels-based International News Safety Institute (INSI)
and the Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres.

American firepower is the next most significant cause of death. -From the INSI report.

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