At least 65 journalists were killed around the world because of their work last year, the highest figure for 13 years, and nearly half of them died in Iraq, a leading media watchdog reported on Monday. The figure compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, said some 7 in 10 of journalist deaths last year were murder, with the others due to combat cross-fire.
In its report, the CPJ mentioned Burmese journalists came under heavy assault in August and September when covering pro-democracy street protests and military government's retaliatory crackdown.
A prominent Burmese poet Aung Way told the BBC how journalists inside Burma are deeply polarised and those who do not support the regime have built a network to protect themselves from the oppression.
