In het oosten van Afghanistan heeft een onbekende man in politie-uniform 2 buitenlandse journalistes van het Amerikaanse persbureau AP neergeschoten.
Volgens de lokale politie overleefde de Duitse oorlogsfotografe Anja Niedringhaus de schietpartij niet. De Canadese journaliste Kathy Gannon raakte zwaargewond………
De schietpartij had gisteren plaats in de provincie Khost een dag voor de presidents- en regionale verkiezingen van vandaag. De Taliban hebben gezworen de stembusgang in de war te schoppen.
De uit Westfalen afkomstige Niedringhaus (48) verwierf bekendheid met haar foto’s van de val van de Berlijnse Muur in 1989. Daarna fotografeerde zij tijdens de burgeroorlog in het uiteenvallende Joegoslavië.
Ook coverde zij de conflicten in het Midden-Oosten, Libië, Afghanistan en Pakistan. In 2005 kreeg zij de Pulitzerprijs voor haar foto’s van gevechten in Irak.
Belangenorganisatie Journalisten zonder Grenzen waarschuwde afgelopen woensdag nieuwsorganisaties al hun journalisten beter te beveiligen. Vooral de mensen die verslag doen bij stembureaus in kleine provincieplaatsen, zijn kwetsbaar.
Vandaag werd bekend dat de fatale schietpartij op de journalistes een wraakactie was voor een NAVO-actie in dat land. Dat heeft een politiewoordvoerder in de Afghaanse provincie Khost gezegd.
De twee journalistes waren in Afghanistan om de presidentsverkiezingen van zaterdag te verslaan.
Hieronder wat van het werk van Anja Niedringhaus van AP Press.
A woman takes a dip at sunrise in Lake Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, July 21, 2013. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Under the harsh glare of spotlights, an Italian soldier stands
guard at the Carabinieri barracks in Nasiriyah where 33 people,
including 19 Italians, were killed in a terrorist truck bombing in November, 2003. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 file photo, an Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he enjoys a ride with others on a merry-go-round to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Yves Rossy, known as the ‘Fusion Man,’ flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a Pakistani Army soldier with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment stands atop the 8000-foot mountain during a patrol near his outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan’s Dir province on the Pakistan-Afghan border.
Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, clinches onto his Rosary beads as he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Joanna Hayes of the US collides with a hurdle, during the final of the Women’s 100 meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Thursday Aug. 11, 2005. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
A Libyan rebel urges people to leave, as shelling from Gadhafi’s forces started landing on the frontline outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Afghanistan.
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, an Afghan woman holds her newly born baby wrapped in her burqa as she waits to get in line to try on a new burqa in a shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In this Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2002 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, hundreds of U.S. Marines gather at Camp Commando in the Kuwait desert during a Christmas eve visit by Santa Claus.
Rafael Nadal at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004 file photo, a U.S. Marine of the 1st Division carries a mascot for good luck in his backpack as his unit pushed further into the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
A Libyan woman reacts with her hands written on them in Arabic ” I love Libya’ as she joins a rally in support of the allied air campaigns against the forces of Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Afghan boys study at a makeshift school in the village of Budyali, Nengarhar Province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP
In this May 13, 2013 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan.
Kathy Gannon, left, AP special correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and veteran AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus pose with Pakistani soldiers in the remote border area opposite Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunar province, circa 2012. The AP team was documenting Pakistan’s role in fighting Islamic militants in the region.
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