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CHAPTER 7Fighting back: What the IFJ and journalists’organisations can doThe Association of Journalists of Macedonia protest against violence in September 2002. The journalists wore T-shirts reading‘I am a journalist’ on the front, and ‘Here we are— beat us!’ on the back. The larger placard proclaims ‘Journalists fromTetovo, Kicevo, Ohrid’ while the smaller placard says ‘Get Lost’, words allegedly used by the (now former) Minister of Internalaffairs Ljube Boshkovski, the day before the protest.Photo: Association of Journalists of Macedonia106MacedoniaOn September 30 2002 journalists in Macedonia took to the streetsto protest at more than 40 attacks on journalists in recent years.Under the ironic slogan ‘Here we are, beat us!’ the Association ofJournalists of Macedonia (AJM) led a freedom of expression marchto the Ministry of the Interior. The trigger for the protest was anattack on journalist Zoran Bozinovski while he was working. Oneof his attackers, allegedly a member of a special police unit, wastaken into custody, but the Association said that 40 colleagues hadbeen victims of violence over the previous few years, and most ofthe attackers had never been arrested. The journalists demandedthat the then Minister of the Interior, Ljube Boshkovski, meet thempublicly to report his investigations. However, the Minister waitedfor the demonstration to be over before making a statement.The AJM said: “The goal of those who beat the journalists is tocause silence. The Association of Journalists of Macedonia is rais-
Live News — A Survival Guide for Journalistsing its voice through this protest against all types of pressure andstands in defence of the dignity of journalism as a profession.Therefore, dear colleagues, instead of silence we call on you loudlyto express our revolt. Because Macedonia journalism must not bekept silent! If you want to beat someone up, here we are, beat us!”SloveniaOn February 28 2001, Miro Petek parked his car outside his homenear the northern city of Slovenj Gradec in Slovenia. As he walkedthe few steps from his car to his house he was attacked and savagelybeaten. His nose and both cheekbones were crushed, his jawbonewas broken and there were several cracks to his skull. He lost hissense of smell and his eyesight was damaged. He later wrote: “Itwas like a classic gangster film. I tried to shield my head with myarms; I saw nothing but the legs kicking me. The attack was executedbrutally, the way professionals do it — quietly without saying aword.”Miro Petek is an investigative reporter for the leading Slovenenewspaper, Vecer. He had exposed wrong doings in companies inthe Korosko region of Slovenia and had written about a criminalinvestigation into tax evasion on a grand scale. From the nature ofthe attack it was clear that he had been targeted as a journalist,and immediately after the attack took place, the Director Generalof the Slovene Police, Marko Pogorevc, said that they were “breathingdown the necks” of the perpetrators. However, two years laterno arrests had been made.The investigation was criticised. The crime scene had not beenwell secured and vital clues couldhave been trampled under foot.There was evidence that some ofthe people whose homes wereraided seemed to be well preparedfor the event, and speculationthat they had connections withstaff at the prosecutor’s office orat the court. Despite the high-profileof the case, the investigationwas left in the hands of local prosecutorsand police, although theGeneral Director of Police waskept informed and he reportedMiro Petek is transferred to hospitalfollowing the attack that left himseriously injured outside his home inFebruary 2001.107
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