(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is a 28 March 1999 ANEM press release: SNIPER KILLS JOURNALISTS’ DRIVER, TV SOKO BANNED Belgrade — March 28, 1999 The Association of Independent Electronic Media in Yugoslavia (ANEM) protested today at the murder of the driver of a crew of Russian journalists in Kosovo and the closure of another of […]
(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is a 28 March 1999 ANEM press release:
SNIPER KILLS JOURNALISTS’ DRIVER, TV SOKO BANNED
Belgrade — March 28, 1999
The Association of Independent Electronic Media in Yugoslavia (ANEM)
protested today at the murder of the driver of a crew of Russian
journalists
in Kosovo and the closure of another of ANEM’s members, Television Soko
in
Soko Banja.
According to Pristina’s Media Centre, Nenad Stojkovic, 27, was killed by
a
sniper on the road from Pristina to Podujevo this morning as he was
driving
a crew of Russian journalists to Belgrade. The journalists, Alexander
Pobrakov and Sergey Patnikov, were not injured.
On March 27, Yugoslav Telecommunications Ministry banned the broadcasts
of
Television Soko, an ANEM affiliate in the eastern Serbian town of Soko
Banja. According to the station’s chief editor, TV Soko was the only
link
the local populace had with the local civil defence headquarters.
ANEM called for a cessation of violence against journalists, warning
that it
was exactly because of the critical circumstances in the country that
the
unhindered work of professional journalists, especially local broadcast
media, was imperative, for the provision of timely and truthful
information
to local and international audiences.