Thursday, January 20, 2011

Daniel Pearl


Daniel Pearl
Good to see is that every case of Danny Pearl forgotten. Project Pearl, a three-year investigation by a team of American journalists and students of Georgetown University was carried out, said the condemnation by the Pakistani government said the four men were Pearl was in the course of the February beheaded in 2002 convicted on the testimony and perjury in conflict .
In May 2006, said Abi Wright, CPJ Asia program coordinator then, in "Daniel Pearl: an open case"
In June 2003, told [President Prev] Musharraf reporters that when Pearl was "history." Pearl's parents in a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal. July 8, 2003 It has been said that if his son an open wound, to meet two requirements are and remain: "Everyone in the planning and execution of the murder before court involved and brought to justice, and a monument in memory of Daniel Pearl in Karachi, was affirming the ideals. the truth, humanity and dialogue "
These steps have been taken, Wright said in his last paragraph.
Despite its shortcomings, Pearl CPJ process often as an example of what can the Pakistani government did not decide when used to investigate the murder of a journalist. If only the Pearl murder was brought to a journalist in Pakistan, criminal justice and was sentenced by a court. According to CPJ, since Pearl was killed, 29 others were killed - some in the crossfire or acts of terrorism, but most of the murders. The youngest was the channel Geo TV reporter Babar Khan Wali, in Karachi in the night of 13 January was murdered shortly after for gang crime in the city. Two men approached his car and shot him.
Babar's death was part of the backdrop of ongoing violence in Karachi, where in the near Pearl had died nine years earlier. Despite the promise of the police to the killers to justice, and bring a sweep of arrests in the enduing days, no one has been charged with murder of Babar. And if history is any guide, no one will.

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