by Robert Russell
Chawki Amari, Algeria:
This popular Algerian
cartoonist in exile had to leave Algeria when the warnings from
both the Government military and the militant Islamic forces
got too strident. In 1997 journalism in Algeria was one of the
world's most dangerous professions. Since then, fewer journalists
have been killed but only becasue many of the best have fled
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Cartoonists in trouble:
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One
of the features of Amari's cartoons that angered both sides of
the Algerian civil war, was his proclivity to show both sides
as equally guilty parties in the death and mahem forced on rural
Algerians. The military would threaten Chawki when shown in the
same cartoon as the militants. In this cartoon, both parties
get a good laugh when reading the UN's Declaration of Human Rights,
leaving as brothers in their mission to kill and murder.
Again as equal brothers, the military and the clerics preach
from their pulpits, the poor man's head already gone.
Source
Agencies:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters sans Frontieres
International Federation of Journalists
International Freedom of Expression Clearing House
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
World Association of Newspapers
The NEWSEUM
And other human rights organizations that cannot now be mentioned.
Your suggestions
and comments are appreciated. E-mail Robert Russell
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