30 Oct 2012

GENEVA / SOMALIA MEDIA KILLINGS

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today (30 October) condemned the latest attacks on journalists in Somalia, where more media workers are killed than anywhere else in the world besides Syria. CH UNTV

Posted at: October 30, 2012 7:07 pm

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STORY: GENEVA / SOMALIA MEDIA KILLINGS
TRT: 2.04
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

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FILE - RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations

30 OCTOBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: 
"We are extremely alarmed by the continuing assault on Somalia's media workers and journalists by Al Shabab and other elements. Yesterday, a well-known musician and poet working for Radio Kulmiye, Mr Warsame Shire Awale, was shot dead in what appears to have been yet another targeting of The previous day, Sunday Mohamed Mohamud Turyare, a journalist and producer with another radio station, Radio Shabelle, died as a result of wounds received a week earlier on 21 October, when in a similar attack near his home he was reportedly shot by two men with pistols."
4. Tilt up, phone to face
5.  SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: 
"These two latest deaths take the number of media workers killed this year in Somalia to 18, the second highest toll in the world after Syria. Nine of them were killed in the past six weeks, including three in separate incidents in the past seven days alone."
6. Med shot, line of journalists
7.  SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: 
"We urge the new Government of Somalia to take urgent steps to protect journalists and other media workers, and to end the complete impunity that has been enjoyed by their killers. Each death should be properly investigated."
8. Wide shot, press room
9.  SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: 
"The role of the media is crucial as Somalia tries to get back on its feet, and the continued regular slaughter of the country's journalists risks stifling the media's ability to contribute to an improvement in law and order and good governance."
10. Med shot, journalist typing
11.  Wide shot, press room
12.  Close up, journalist
13.  Pan, from one journalist to another

STORYLINE:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today (30 October) released a statement deploring the continuing attacks on journalists in Somalia.

Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Human Rights said "We are extremely alarmed by the continuing assault on Somalia's media workers and journalists by Al Shabab and other elements."

Yesterday, a well-known musician and poet working for Radio Kulmiye, arsame Shire Awale, was shot dead in what appears to have been a targeting of media workers.  On Sunday, Mohamed Mohamud Turyare, a journalist and producer with another radio station, Radio Shabelle, died as a result of wounds received a week earlier, when in a similar attack near his home he was reportedly shot by two men with pistols.

According to OHCHR, these two latest deaths take the number of media workers killed this year in Somalia to 18, the second highest toll in the world after Syria. Nine of them were killed in the past six weeks, including three in separate incidents in the past seven days alone.

"The role of the media is crucial as Somalia tries to get back on its feet, and the continued regular slaughter of the country's journalists risks stifling the media's ability to contribute to an improvement in law and order and good governance." Colville said.