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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16400 A United Nations war-crimes tribunal has rejected as "utterly unfounded" the refusal by an American journalist to testify about an interview with a suspected war criminal that was published in The Washington Post. A panel of three U.N. judges dismissed the motion on behalf of retired reporter Jonathan C. Randal in which his publication argued that compelling journalists to testify could endanger their lives and the lives of sources. The decision paves the way for the court to order that Randal appear in The Hague. Although the tribunal cannot physically force him to testify, its orders are binding under international law. It could request that authorities in France, where Randal lives, assist in carrying out the order. The Post quoted its managing editor, Steve Coll, as saying yesterday that "the last couple of years have made clearer than ever how hard is the work of independent correspondents in combat zones where many combatants are not formally aligned with any government and suspicious of the motives of the media." Coll expressed concern that warring parties would view journalists "as instruments of some faraway court or power and deal with them as such" if such subpoenas were allowed, the Post said. Keep in mind that: [QUOTE]The majority of journalists who died in the line of duty during the last decade were killed in direct reprisal for their reporting, not while covering combat, according to a study released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Of the 389 journalists killed between 1992 and 2001, 62 of them, or 16%, died in cross fire, while 298, or 77%, were targeted for their work, the New York-based group found.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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