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'Big-headed' journalists at risk http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1621

Journalists in Harare have been stunned by reports, so far unconfirmed, that Edward Chikombo, a cameraman for the state broadcaster ZBC, was abducted last week, and murdered. Chikombo's body is said to have been discovered at the weekend near the village of Darwendale, 50 miles west of Harare. If the reports are true, suspicion will fall on Mugabe's secret police force, the Central Intelligence Organisation, who have recently intensified their attacks on people in the media. Foster Dongozi, secretary of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, said he was trying to verify the reports. It is thought Chikombo was targeted because he was suspected of leaking television footage relating to the recent brutal beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Earlier Gift Phiri, a reporter for the UK-based The Zimbabwean, was The murder of a TV cameraman marks an escalation in Mugabe's anti-media campaign arrested and severely beaten by police. He remains in custody. Two journalists working for the international media, Tawanda Musiyazviriyo and Tsvangirai Mukwazhi, were also recently arrested, and only released after their camera equipment was confiscated and destroyed. Since 2000 Mugabe has closed down five independent publications which were critical of his rule, and now only two weeklies remain, the Standard and the Independent. Their publisher, Trevor Ncube, this week significantly increased security. Meanwhile secret police are haunting the internet cafes which independent journalists use to send their stories overseas. One policeman, identified at a Harare outlet, said: "Journalists have become big-headed. They're a major cause of worry because of their negative stories." FIRST POSTED APRIL 5, 2007

 

 

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