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Journalists under threat: The psychology of sacrifice

By Terry Gould

Over the summer, as a book I’d written about the lives of murdered journalists went to press, a crusading human rights reporter from the Russian republic of Chechnya was shot dead. I was not surprised by the details of her murder, just as the Chechen reporter was not surprised she’d become a target for execution: Like all the journalists in my book, Natalya Estemirova had known she would probably be murdered.

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September 17, 2009 4:04 PM ET | | Comments (2)
Tags: Anna Politkovskaya, Impunity, Impunity Index, Killed, Novaya Gazeta, Tara Singh Hayer
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