[lbo-talk] Press group slams US attack on journalists' Baghdad hotel

[Steven]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned a US attack
on a Baghdad hotel that killed one cameraman and wounded four
correspondents as a possible war crime. 
The Brussels-based lobby group also accused the Iraqi regime of using
journalists and other civilians as "human shields" and demanded that
both sides in the war be punished under international law. 

"There is no doubt at all that these attacks could be targeting
journalists. If so, they are grave and serious violations of
international law," said IFJ general secretary Aidan White. 

"The bombing of hotels where journalists are staying and targeting of
Arab media are particularly shocking events in a war which is being
fought in the name of democracy," he said. 

"Those who are responsible must be brought to justice," he said. 

"The Baghdad authorities are just as culpable with their reckless
disregard for civilian lives," he said. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-8apr2003-87.htm

and this:

Reuters cameraman killed in US blast on Baghdad hotel

Reuters news agency said one of its television cameramen, Taras
Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian national, was killed after a US tank fired on
the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. 

In a statement from its London headquarters, it added that another three
of its journalists in the Iraqi capital had been injured. 

They were among 18 Reuters journalists in Baghdad. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-8apr2003-85.htm