There is a growing fear that some governments – especially the most militarily sophisticated like the United States and Israel – are sanctioning the active targeting of journalists in war zones. The evidence is that they want to shut down what we are there to do – to bear witness and report.
The concern is that there is an apparent culture of impunity. This is already encouraging others to believe they can get away with targeting and eliminating journalists, or at least ignoring the issue. More than ever, we are inconvenient eyes and ears who monitor and report what some in power would much prefer we did not.
