PESHAWAR: A total of 141 journalists were killed during the last decade for daring to denounce the influence of criminal gangs and their parallel economy, a media watchdog reports said on Thursday.

“Since the end of the Cold War, the media’s leading predators have been mafias, drug cartels and paramilitary groups that have turned to large-scale smuggling. Mafias of the traditional Costa Nostra kind are no longer the only form that this transnational phenomenon takes, one that is deadlier for journalists than the world’s remaining oppressive regimes and dictatorships. “No continent is spared,” the report “Muscling in on the media” by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders looking at organised crimes read. There is more to organised crime than the toll of dead and injured from its operations.
Source: Daily Times
Date:2/25/2011