The Sixteenth Newsletter 2018
Being a journalist is a dangerous business. It is not dangerous to be astenographerto be someone who regurgitates the views of the powerful. A real journalist is someone who gets beneath the stories custodia libro iphone 5s that surrounds us, who seeks answers to difficult questions, who won't leave a story because to do so would be to betray both the people who tell us these stories and those who need to hear them.
Thus far, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, twenty eight journalists have been killed this year. Too many of these journalists have been killed in Afghanistan. Their names are not well known, so here they are:
Yesterday, Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead in Srinagar's Press Enclave in Lal Chowk. For those of us who write in the universe ofThe Hinduwhere he was a correspondent from 1997 to 2012 and forFrontlinefor whom he was the Jammu and Kashmir Bureau Chief Shujaat is not another name on a list. He was a colleague and a friend, a brave reporter, a real journalist. He had received police protection since an attack on him s view cover samsung galaxy s3 mini in 2006. In this fatal attack, his two security guards were also shot dead. Three men had been waiting for him. After they shot him and his guards dead, they jumped on a motorcycle and fled the scene.
Jammu and Kashmir, the state in northern India, has been custodia samsung flip wallet hazardous for journalists ever since Doordarshan television director Lassa Kaul was killed by militants in 1990. The militants have not been the only assailants. Indian soldiers have also turned their ire on journalists one remembers the death of cameraman Javed Ahmed Mir, who was shot during a demonstration in 2008. In 1996, Shujaat had been abducted by gunmen in Anantnag and held for several hours. A decade later, two gunmen seized him. When one tried to shoot him, his gun jammed. Shujaat bravely made his escape. cover samsung galaxy s3 belle At that time, Shujaat said something that rings true even today, 'It is virtually impossible to know who your enemies are and who your friends are'. It is not clear who murdered Shujaat.
Shujaat was shot on the same day that the United Nations called for an independent evaluation of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. In the UN's 49 page report detailed accusations of these violations. It is on the basis of this report that the chief of the UN's Human Rights Council custodia samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 called for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry.
Two weeks before he was murdered, Shujaat went on twitter to document the terrible death of Kaiser Bhat, age 21, who had been run over by an Indian army jeep. Shujaat shared a video of the attack on Kaiser Bhat and then said, 'These pictures from Srinagar downtown are very custodia cover samsung s8 disturbing. This is a custodia iphone liu jo horrible way to quell a protest'. This is the samsung a10 hoesje kind of clear outrage that came from Shujaat. coque samsung Having posted the video and picture, Shujaat began to be attacked. 'I am being trolled', he wrote.
Kaiser Bhat's sisters Toiba, aged 19, and Iffat, aged 17 cried when they heard that their brother had been run over and killed by the Indian army jeep. coque huawei 'Where will we go now', they asked, in voices faint with grief. iphone 7 8 plus hoesje Their parents had already died. They lived with their uncle and aunt. Kaiser had decided to forgo his own samsung galaxy a3 2017 custodia studies and get a job, so that he could earn money to make sure that his sisters continued with their education. This was important custodia cover huawei mate 20 lite to them.
It was custodia samsung a3 2016 originale inevitable that Kaiser would get involved in the protests against the intolerable and suffocating Indian military presence in the Kashmir valley. There are over 700,000 Indian soldiers in Kashmir. The Indian government has itself said that there are no more than 150 militants in the state. What mathematics makes this ratio 700,000 to 150 reasonable is beyond belief. The soldiers are trained to see a 'terrorist' behind every tree. No wonder the new UN report calls upon the Indian government to immediately repeal this Act. To get a sense of why this foto cover iphone 5s act AFSPA is such a bone of contention, read Shujaat's article fromFrontline(March 16, 2018) on the Shopian firings (Frontlineis an indictment of the Indian government's policy in Kashmir, but it also offers a sharp criticism of the degeneration of politics in the state. Most recently, onMay 11, Shujaat lead the coverage on the Kathua Rape Case. You can read his main story on the case
In 2016, Shujaat said of the dangers to journalists, 'Threats to life, intimidation, assault, arrest and censorship have been part of the life of a typical local journalist'. custodia samsung s8 silicone His life is now taken. It will be remembered.
The picture above by Ezzeldeen al Natour, a Jordanian photojournalist captures the protests in his homeland.
Shujaat Bokhari would have been pleased to follow the outbreak of protests on both sides of the Jordan River in Palestine and in Jordan. In Palestine, anger in the population against what happened along the Gaza perimeter fence and what happens every day to the Palestinians has now morphed into
The protests in Palestine are significant. Two weeks ago, I had introduced you to the work of Stop the Wall, which attempts to build links between various chausson pokemon Palestinian formations such as trade unions, farmers' associations and youth groups. coque samsung This work, difficult as it is, will eventually produce a new Palestinian project. It is towards that momentum that we deliver our solidarity. Not for an abstraction, but for a tangible politics. In India, not only has the All India Kisan Sabha the farmer's union but also the Students Federation of India have come out swinging for Palestine. That's at least twenty million Indians who stand with Palestine (you can read my report on this solidarity for Palestine from India communist movement
Meanwhile, at the other end of Asia, in Singapore, Donald Trump of the United States met with Kim Jong un of North Korea. Much has been made of this meeting, which although brief has opened a new historical dynamic. Kim came to the meeting on an Air China plane. This is not just a minor detail. It is very significant. China lies behind this deal. It is deeply concerned that the United States has been eager to push its troops right up to the Chinese border on the Korean peninsula. The Chinese worry that this could have certainly taken place if North Korea imploded and if it were absorbed into South Korea. That is the reason why the Chinese have been eager for the North Koreans to make a rapprochement with the West and with South Korea so as to maintain the status quo. Kim made few concessions, but he was able to wrest guarantees from the United States to tone down its belligerence (to get a full but brief sense of the tensions on the Korean peninsula, see our first). The North Koreans have pledged to de nuclearize the peninsula since 1992. There is nothing new here. What they mean by de nuclearization is the real issue. It will not be on the table for a long time yet. Don't anticipate North Korea to go the way of either East Germany or Libya. The Chinese have played a shrewd hand. They have custodia subacquea iphone 8 plus all the trumps. For my extended report, go
One piece of good news: the bid to legalise abortion goes forward with the green light from the Argentine Congress. This, combined with the Argentine football team's refusal to play against Israel, custodia sacchetto samsung s7 is a good sign from the Southern custodia iphone 7 compatibile con iphone 6s Cone. Perhaps Messi, who is said to have insisted that his team not play Israel as long as the Palestinians are occupied, might walk away with his World Cup. Or will it be Brazil. Or, am I romantic enough to hope for Iran.
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