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tional list, which was current as of Apnl 23 this year, showed three journalists imprisoned in Bangladesh, four in India, 21 in Indonesia,
ment and even torture,
Remember These Names:
Recent years have seen some quite limited progress in achieving Among the bits of progress have been moves to grant journalists special status and a degree of protection in the legitimate performarces of their tasks.
Much of this progress results from frightening losses of journa-
lists sustained during the Indorhina
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in Indo-china (see story on page 3). In Asia, the Amnesty Interna-
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recognition of basic human rights.
tl¡o
said that all nations and peoples were capable of unjust imprisoncertain pressures and circumstances. Amnesty International releæed a list of 67 journalists held in jails or
Hong Kong, 15th Floor, Sutherland House, 3 Chater Road, Hong Kong. Adver-
Gail Johnson
Harold Ellithorpe
and
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di¡ector of Amnesty International,
mysteriously "disappeared" in 17 countries. And this list does not include those of newsmen missing
During a press conference at the
F.C.C., Martin Ennals, executive
pondence
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Our Tasks Are Not Yet Done...
war, and the growing rcalization that the flow of news is vital to the progress of modern civilization. The symbols of this struggle for protection ofjournalists are the 30 men who are still offìcially listed as "missing" in the wars of Asia: 19 in Cambodia, one in Vietnam, four in Laos, six in Timor.
Claude Arpin, French photographer, Cambodia 1970. Deter Bellendorf ,
G erman cam
eraman, Ca,
technician, Cambodia 1970. Sean
establishing a regional organization
photogrøpherf ioumalist, Cambodía 1970. Geory Gensluckner, Austrian photo-
for the
Cambodia
Flynn, American
grapher fjoumalist, Cambodia I
9 70.
Welles Hangen, American correspondent, Cambodía 1970. Gny
Hannoteaux, French joumalist, Cambodia 1970. Tomoharu Ishii, Japønese cemeraman, Cambodí¿ 1970. Akira Kusaka, Japanese correspondent, Cambodia 1970. Wtlly Mettler, Swiss photogrøpher fjoumalist, Cambodia 1970. Teruo Naka-
Jøpanese cameraïLen, Cambodia 1970. Yoshthiko Waku, Japanese
to
recognition and
acceptance.
For those correspondents who today ply the craft in Asia, it is a duty to remember and to work toward the kind of a world in which journalists can function freely without fear of being listed in the dark limbo of "the missing." It is a cause with too many martyrs. The Conespondent, May I 976
harra.ssment and
Mr. Ennals was enroute to Japan where he planned dicsussions for
t,
factions or govemments responsible even though the wars ir¡which they
ments' claims
of journalist
1970. Roger Colne, French sound
Cambodia 1970. Yujiro Takagi,
evade that duty is despicable, and must certainly bear in the judgments the world makes on those govern-
the
pho to grapher fi ournøIis
captured unharmed. Yet their fate has never been revealed by the
Those.governments bear a mo¡al
in
imprisonment around the world.
Many were known to have been
responsibility to answer. That they
South Korea, one
bodía 1970. Gilles Caron, French
jima, Japanese writer, Cambodia 1970. Kojito Sakai,Japanese sound technician, Cambodia 1970. Data
were lost have long been over.
in
Philippines, two in Singapore, four in Taiwan, and two in Thailand. These represent cases reco¡ded by the London-bæed organization and are by no means the full extent
Stone, American
photographer,
cømeraman, Cambodiø 1970. Takeshi Yanagisawa, Japanese ioumalist, Cambodia 1970. Tety Reynolds, American joumalist, Cambodía 1972. Alexander Shimkin, American journalist, Vietnøm 1972. Tazio Ichonose, Japønese photographer, Cambodø 1973. Koki Ishiyam a, Japcnese ioumalist, Cambodia 1973. Larry Burrows, British photographer, Laos 1971.
Henri Huet, Vietnamesef French
of Amnesty Intemational to work release of"prisoners
ofcon-
science" and for the elimination of
torture. He noted during his Hong Kong stopover that the subject of human rights - which now includes a
United Nations proviso against torture - is becoming a topic in
international politics. For example,
he said, it would be taken up in
with development aid at a United Nations Development connection
Program meeting this June.
However, Mr. Ennals admitted that, thus far, most nations are
lip service to the principles of human rights without actually seeing themselves as legally
merely paying
and morally committed
when
signing such items as the conven-
tion
against tortu¡e
or the UN
Declaration of Human Rights. He noted that vast areæ of the
world are simply blank as regards the true picture of human rights. China was one such country where
inadequate information available.
A
substantial number
of
was
the
journalists arrested were accused of
Laos 1971 Keisiburo Shimamoto,
political crimes in which it wæ diffìcult to determine whether they were imprisoned for joumalistic activities or active participation in
Japanese photogrøpher, Laos 1971
partisan political ventures.
photographer, Laos 1971. Kent
Potter, Ameican
photographer,