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100th journalist killed in Iraq
03/08/2006 08:33 - (SA)
Paris - A press freedom group on Wednesday denounced the "terrifying death toll" in Iraq as the 100th journalist was reported killed in the country since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003.
Reporters without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) expressed "shock" at the killing of an Iraqi journalist, Adel Naji Al Mansouri.
The 20-year-old correspondent for the Iranian television station Al Alam was abducted in front of his Baghdad home on Sunday and his body was found on Tuesday in the western Baghdad district of Al Amiriyah.
"With 100 media professionals killed in three years of conflict, the toll is terrifying," said the Paris-based RSF in a statement.
"No other war has been as murderous for the press since the Second World War," said the organisation, which called on the Iraqi government "to do its utmost to find those responsible for these atrocities and prosecute them".
The RSF added: "It is intolerable that nothing has yet been done to shed light on these killers who have become more and more common and that no measure has been taken to assure the protection of the professional media in Iraq."
According to the RSF in Iraq, 100 journalists and media assistants have been killed since 2003, two are reported missing and three are currently being held hostage.
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