Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Journalists Who Died Doing Their Jobs in 2014


ကမၻာေက်ာ္ Newsweek ဂ်ာနယ္ၾကီးရဲ ့ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ႏွစ္သစ္မွာ ထုတ္ေ၀လိုက္တဲ့အထဲမွာ ပါတဲ့ “The Journalists Who Died Doing Their Jobs in 2014” အထူးက႑မွာ ကမၻာတစ္လႊားက သတင္းေထာက္အလုပ္ကို လုပ္ကိုင္ေနရင္း အသက္ဆုံးရွဳံးသြားခဲ့ၾကရတဲ့ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားထဲမွာ ျမန္မာျပည္မွ ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္ႏိုင္ (ခ) ကိုပါၾကီးရဲ ့ အေၾကာင္း ဓါတ္ပုံႏွင့္တကြ ေဖာ္ျပပါရွိပါတယ္။
ယခုထက္ထိ အာဏာရွင္ သိန္းစိန္အစိုးရဟာ ကိုပါၾကီးရဲ ့ ကိစၥကို အေလးမထားဘဲ၊ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း မရွိဘဲ၊ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲကာ ကလိမ္ကက်စ္က်က် အမွဳကို လိမ္လည္ဖို ့ ၾကဳိးစားေနပါတယ္။
AUNG KYAW NAING
Than Dar, the wife of slain Burmese journalist Aung Kyaw Naing, also known as Par Gyi, stands in front of a family photograph showing herself, her husband and daughter posing with Aung San Suu Kyi, during an interview at her home in Yangon, October 28, 2014. Naing was detained and killed by Burmese military while covering armed clashes between the Burmese army and Karen ethnic rebels. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Aung Kyaw Naing, also known as Par Gyi, was a Burmese freelance journalist and political activist from Rangoon working along the Burma-Thai border. His work appeared in many local Burmese media outlets such as The Voice, Eleven Media and Yangon Times. He was detained and killed by Burmese military while covering armed clashes between the Burmese army and Karen ethnic rebels. Activists and supporters protested the killing of Naing and called for an inquiry into his death, his wife saying she believed he was tortured while in military custody. The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission reported multiple injuries to his body, including several gunshot wounds, discovered after after his body was exhumed in November. —Tzirel Kaminetzky.