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New York reporters condemn attack on RTS
April 25, 1999

World media rise voices against barbarian bombarding of RTS

New York, April 25 (Tanjug) - The New York-based committee for the protection of reporters condemned the NATO bombing of the Serbian Radio Television RTS building early Friday and expressed deep distress at this attack and the resulting casualties, the Washington Post says today. "The bombardment of Serbian television is frightening to reporters", said committee director for Europe Chrystyna Lapychak.

She expressed apprehension that this act "might forever jeopardize correspondents who report about various conflicts all over the world".

"Under the Geneva Convention, reporters are not fighters", Lapychak said, warning that NATO had begun taking decisions about what people can or cannot watch by bombarding the Serbian Radio Television.

"Washington Post" states that the bombardment of RTS initiated a debate about press freedom having in mind objection that NATO "is not attentive in giving information about the war".

Lapychak said that TV spectators in the West will be deprived of war pictures since many of such pictures were coming just from the Serbian TV.

The Washington newspaper also writes that NATO air strikes on RTS caused numerous protests of journalist throughout the world, such as "Reporters sans frontiers" from Paris, European Radio-TV Union(EBU), Russian Alliance of Journalists, etc.