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| Journalists killed noted March 2012 Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies |
Homegrown or foreign-made war madness must
be exposed, instigators and perpetrators brought to justice
Press TV this week interviewed political commentator Kamel
Wazni on the September 26 killing of journalist Maya Naser (var. Nasser)
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
Journalist 25 dies in Syria
Two Press TV journalists yesterday were covering twin bomb explosions
that had targeted a military command building in Syria’s capital, Damascus.
Four Syrian security forces had died.
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| Maya Naser (Nasser) |
Iranian English-language news network correspondent Maya
Naser died from a sniper’s fire. Press
TV and Al-Alam Damascus Bureau Chief Hosein Mortada, a Lebanese national, was
wounded by a shot in the back.
Wazni calls for accountability for “War madness”
Kamel Wazni said, “The Qataris, the Saudis, Turkey, and the
United States should look at what they have done to Syria and what they have
done to the stability of Syria”; and the world should be listening and watching
and should hold those people accountable for the madness.
“The world should listen carefully and should condemn what
has been taking place in Syria: against [this journalist] and the mass killing
that is being pushed by fanatics, al-Qaeda, and countries who are shipping
money and terrorists into Syria. This madness has to stop,” Wazni said. But it
will not stop as long as there are censors and silence.
Silence seems consent
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As has happened so many times in the Middle East, the world is
silenced in having been denied “the truth about the assassination of this journalist,
the explosion of two cars that killed innocent people on the street of Damascus
─ this inhumane act by terrorist organizations trying to destroy the unity and
the entity of Syria,” Wazni said.
“We have heard a lot of speeches at the UN but we have not
heard the truth that is taking place on the ground.”
Claiming to be free press advocates complicit
in blocking exercise of an independent and alternative press
What is happening today “when it comes to Syria and to
certain organizations [is that] a lot of people we witness do not want to hear
the voice of Press TV,” Kamel Wazni says. “They do not want to hear the voice
of an alternative network because it presents a different dimension. Sometimes
it contradicts what they believe ─ sometimes because it is telling the truth
that does not go down well with Western media.…
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“Civil rights organizations and international organizations
that have been concerned with the freedom of expression, with the freedom of
journalism should actually show this case in the light it deserves,” Kamel
Wazni said; and the case should be pursued to the fullest extent to ensure that
every practicing journalist everywhere is protected.
Killing the young particularly robs potential for progress toward press freedom. Before
his death, Maya Nasser (var. Naser) “had received death threats from ‘rebels,’”
says the Wikipedia account.
He was 33 years old (July 30, 1979
–September 26, 2012), a Syrian journalist and reporter who worked for Press
TV, an Iranian English-language broadcasting service. Nasser reported from the ground
in Syria and was best known for “his reports from Aleppo.”
Nasser also reported from the
United States, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Bahrain. His death brings the number
of journalists killed in the current Syrian conflict to twenty-five.
Clarity breaks silence, demands accountability
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The case of Iranian English-language news network
correspondent Maya Naser must be “pursued to the end,” Wazni said.
This must be done not only “to find the people who shot this
brave journalist” and that the world sees this death not to have
been in vain; but that the world sees clearly ─ and demands justice and
accountability for ─ these explosions that rocked a people and slaughtered innocents
that morning in Damascus.
Sources and notes
“‘Press TV reporter’s assassin must be brought to justice,’”
(Press TV interview with Interview with political commentator Kamel Wazni, September
27, 2012,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/27/263822/press-tv-reporters-assassin-must-be-brought-to-justice/
Maya Naser (var. Nasser): 1979-2012
Nationality: Syrian; Alma mater: Kaplan University; Employer:
Press TV; Known for:
Reports from Aleppo and rest of Syria during the Syrian
civil war; Religion: Christian
September 26, 2012 ─ Nasser was covering large explosions at
the Syrian army’s headquarters in Umayyad Square when he was shot through the
neck and killed by a rebel sniper. Nasser was shot through the neck and was killed.
Hussein Murtada, Press TV’s Damascus bureau chief and head of the
Arabic-language al-Alam TV network, was wounded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Naser
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena kidnapped then freed (U.S./Iraq
war, 2005)
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered (Russia, 2006).
Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images
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