总部设在华盛顿的记者保护委员会22日公布的年度调查报告称,1999年全球因公殉职的记者有34人,较前年有所上升。根据这份报告,由于塞拉利昂的反政府武装“革命联合阵线”对报道他们屠杀平民行径的记者大开杀戒,去年共有10名记者在塞拉利昂遇难,其中在去年1月中旬不到IO天的时间内,就有8名记者被“革命联合阵线”逮捕并杀害。此外,去年共有6名记者在南斯拉夫遇难,包括在北约对中国驻南使馆野蛮轰炸中 According to an annual survey released by the Washington-based Press Protection Committee on the 22nd, there were 34 journalists killed in the world in 1999, an increase from the previous year. According to the report, a total of 10 journalists were killed in Sierra Leone last year as Sierra Leone’s “rebel” Revolutionary United Front (FRN) fired up the killings on journalists covering the massacre of civilians. In the course of less than 10 days in mid-January of last year, Eight journalists were arrested and killed by the “Revolutionary United Front.” In addition, a total of 6 journalists were killed in Yugoslavia last year, including NATO’s brutal bombing of the Chinese embassy in South China