[quote](Reuters) - A Reuters television cameraman was shot dead on Saturday during a violent clash between Thai troops and anti-government protesters in Bangkok that killed 12 people.
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Hiro Muramoto, a 43-year-old Japanese national, was shot in the chest and arrived at Klang Hospital without a pulse, hospital Director Dr Pichaya Nakwatchara said.
Muramoto, who had worked for Reuters in Tokyo for more than 15 years, was married with two children.
"I am dreadfully saddened to have lost our colleague Hiro Muramoto in the Bangkok clashes," said Reuters Editor-in-Chief David Schlesinger.
"Journalism can be a terribly dangerous profession as those who try to tell the world the story thrust themselves in the center of the action. The entire Reuters family will mourn this tragedy."
Muramoto had been covering fighting between troops and protesters in the Rajdumnoen Road area where soldiers opened fire with rubber bullets and tear gas, as well as live rounds into the air, in Bangkok's worst political violence in 18 years.
The hospital director said the bullet had exited his back. He did not know what kind of bullet it was.
An army spokesman said protesters were armed with guns and had been throwing petrol bombs and grenades at troops.
Twelve people, including three soldiers, were killed and more than 500 people wounded in the fighting near the Phan Fah bridge and Rajdumnoen Road in Bangkok's old quarter, a protest base near government buildings and the regional U.N. headquarters.[/quote][URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6391OO20100410"]Source[/URL]
Why are only Reuters employees dying?
[sp]bang cock[/sp]
Guess I wont be accepting any job offers from Reuters.
I thought journalist was supposed to be a non-lethal job?
[QUOTE=dutchah;21365786]I thought journalist was supposed to be a non-lethal job?[/QUOTE]
Hundreds of Journalists are killed every year.
Reuters lose a lot of staff because they go where most standard new teams never go.
they must of pissed someone off, first the US ARMY is after their ass, and now the people in bangkok
reuters is really kickass, they report from locations where noone else goes, and that man died in a really honorable way!
He probably loved his profession so much it was worth dying for. :(
Borders with out reporters...
Wait...
What a Hiro
Journalism, fuck yeah!
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"Can everyone just stop getting shot!"
Seriously, this shit's getting fucking old now.
Reuters journalists are like the red shirts on star trek
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;21365931]they must of pissed someone off, first the US ARMY is after their ass, and now the people in bangkok[/QUOTE]
Enough.
That video about the helicopter shooting those "journalists" wasn't even accurate. I guess you guys conveniently ignored the guns the other people following said journalists were carrying.
If you get close to the action you're bound to get hurt.
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;21365931]they must of pissed someone off, first the US ARMY is after their ass, and now the people in bangkok[/QUOTE]
Don't even start that shit. You probably didn't watch the entire video, read the transcript, or read the military report and automatically accepted Wikileaks' conclusion. Plus we already had 75 pages of argument on it.
[QUOTE=Sir Muffin;21372682]Enough.
That video about the helicopter shooting those "journalists" wasn't even accurate. I guess you guys conveniently ignored the guns the other people following said journalists were carrying.[/QUOTE]
Local journalists do have armed escorts.
They know damn well fine what they're getting in to. They accept the risks and roll with it, sometimes they end up being killed.
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