"They (drug lords) are killing journalists like flies" - Mexican writer issues call for action and
pleas for those outside Mexico not to abandon them.
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A female reporter is strangled in her own home and the authorities never bothered to investigate it, dismissing it as a robbery.
A third journalist asks his friends to find him a pistol – not to kill the narco-traffickers he knew were coming for him but to shoot himself if they came, he explains, because he fears the inevitable torture at their hands more than death.
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“We have become war reporters in our own country,” Mexican journalist Marcela Turati told a spellbound crowd of 1,200 American and foreign journalists gathered this past weekend at the Investigative Reporters and Editors annual convention in San Antonio, Texas. “On the other side of the border, they are killing journalists like flies.”
She issued a stirring call for action, urging journalists and the public in the rest of North America to take heed of war that was spreading far beyond Mexico.
“Don’t ignore us, this problems does not stop at the border,” she said. “Investigate the trafficking networks in your own country.”
http://thestar.blogs.com/worlddaily/2013/06/they-are-killing-journalist-like-flies-mexican-writer-issues-call-for-action.html
