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There are reports that she was shot 9 times by pro-government forces in Aleppo.
Rest in peace brave Mika Yamamoto and all other journalists who give their lives to report the truth. Without a free press, the world is not free.
The Freelancer as Martyr: Mika Yamamoto (1967-2012)
Possessed of an unsung bravery but pursuing a heroic mission, the Japanese journalist dies amid gunfire in Syria and exposes the dangers of the freelance war correspondent
By Lucy Birmingham / Tokyo | August 24, 2012
Two violent, almost parallel incidents frame the life of the journalist Mika Yamamoto. The first occurred on April 3, 2003 and we hear her distraught voice on a video recorded in the immediate aftermath of the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital that was at that time being captured by U.S. forces. Her voice is frantic and desperate yet focused on the suffering of colleagues who had been critically injured after an American tank fired on the 18-story building. She was crying out for anyone to help the fallen journalists. Two of them would die as a result of the attack.
The second event took place on Aug. 20, 2012. Yamamoto, 45, and her common-law husband, Kazutaka Sato, 56, both of whom worked for the Japan Press, an independent, freelance news agency, were on assignment for Nippon Television in Aleppo, when they were caught in the middle of gunfire in that city swept up in Syria?s civil war...
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There are reports that she was shot 9 times by pro-government forces in Aleppo.
Rest in peace brave Mika Yamamoto and all other journalists who give their lives to report the truth. Without a free press, the world is not free.