(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 19 October 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **New case and update to IFEX alert of 26 August 1998** According to ANEM’s information, the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug has announced that two of its employees, journalist Nebojsa Radosevic […]
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 19 October 1998 statement by the
Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its
entirety by AMARC:
**New case and update to IFEX alert of 26 August 1998**
According to ANEM’s information, the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug has
announced that two of its employees, journalist Nebojsa Radosevic and
photographer Vladimir Dobricic, went missing on 18 October 1998 on the
Prisitna-Magura road in Kosovo.
This is the second abduction case since the beginning of the Kosovo
conflict. Two months after the abduction of Radio Pristina’s journalist
Djuro Slavuj and his driver Ranko Perinic, there is still no information
concerning their whereabouts.
ANEM calls on all international organisations for the protection of the
media and journalists to join in the action of finding the missing
journalists. ANEM urges governments and international organisations involved
in the resolution of the Kosovo conflict to offer encouragement and help
find the missing journalists.
ANEM also calls on representatives of the Kosovo Albanians to influence the
possible abductors to release the journalists as soon as possible, as
international humanitarian law provides against attacks on civilians and
their being taken hostage.
ANEM once again protests the inactivity of all parties involved in the
Kosovo conflict in regards to the abduction of the Radio Pristina journalist
and hopes that this inactivity will not repeat itself in this latest case.
