Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

Journalists Killed: Motive Confirmed“My feeling at the time was that we were shot at the exact same time,perhaps even with the same bullet,” said Cox, adding that he didn’thear the gunshot or shots that hit him or Polenghi. “I don’t know whoshot me or Fabio, but if the military was trying to shoot red shirts,there was no one around us. … Soldiers were firing at anything oranybody.”Video footage Cox subsequently took of journalists and protesters whocarried Polenghi’s body out of the road and onto a motorcycle boundfor a nearby local hospital appeared to show a bullet had enteredPolenghi’s body under his left armpit and exited through his side. Hewas declared dead on arrival at a local hospital, according to newsreports. Authorities did not report any bullet being recovered.Polenghi’s family expressed concerns about the government’s opaqueinvestigation into the death. His sister, Elisabetta Polenghi, noted thatmany of his belongings, including his camera and telephone, weremissing. She and a group of Polenghi’s colleagues pieced togethervideo clips—some received from journalists who were in Polenghi’s vicinity,others downloaded from unknown sources on the Internet—todevelop a timeline of movements before and after the shooting. Therewas no known footage of the shooting itself. One video clip showedthat an unidentified man wearing a silver helmet was the first to reachPolenghi after he was shot. The brief footage showed him feelingaround Polenghi’s chest and briefly jostling with his camera, whileanother unidentified man wearing a yellow helmet knelt and took aphotograph.Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn did not respond toquestions from CPJ on the Polenghi shooting, including the assertionthat soldiers had been firing indiscriminately.Uganda: 1september 11, 2010, near kalisizioPaul Kiggundu, TOP Radio and TVMotorcycle taxi drivers beat freelance journalist Kiggundu, 32, whilehe was filming them demolishing a house in a town outside Kalisizioin southwest Uganda, according to local reporters and the UgandanHuman Rights Journalist Network. Kiggundu died of internal bleedingbefore he could receive treatment at Kalisizio Government Hospital.307