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UNESCO DENOUNCES ASSASSINATION OF TWO JOURNALISTS

Paris, June 11 {No.97-94} - UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor today denounced the assassination of two journalists: Shamsuddin Haider, programme producer for public radio broadcaster Pakistan Radio who was killed in Bahwalpur (Pakistan), and Leonicio Pintor Garcia reporter for the El Sol de Chipancingo, who was murdered in Mexico.

Mr Mayor denounced both murders "which add to the already all too long list of journalists who have died in the exercise of their duty to inform." He added that "freedom of expression must be defended everywhere in the world from all those who threaten it."

According to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the body of Leonicio Pintor Garcia was found on June 2 near Rio Ajolotero in Guerrero state. It showed many signs of torture. The killing - following on the assassination last May of Jesus Bueno Leon, publisher of the weekly magazine Siete Dias who was shot in the head near the road between Chipancingo and Tixla - is cause for concern over a wave of attacks on journalists in this part of Mexico.

According to the non-governmental organisation Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), Shamsuddin Haider was killed on June 9 in his home in Bahwalpur (southern Punjab) by two gunmen. He is the second Pakistani journalist to have been killed this year. Photographer Z.A. Shahid died last January in a bomb explosion outside the Lahore court house.

Mr Mayor extended his condolences to the families and colleagues of Shamsuddin Haider and Leonicio Pintor Garcia.

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