Northeast appears safefor scribesNortheastern part of India, which often receives media headlines for relentless troubles and violent incidents, has completed one more year with no journo-casualty. For record, the region has not reported any murder of scribes in the last there consecutive years, even though numerous cases of misbehave, assault and threatening to media persons continue pouring. But the country had lost 13 working journalists to assailants in this period and already earned a bad name in the international arena. In fact, as the year 2016 passed off, India stands as one of the worst places for mainstream journalists similar to the conflict-ridden nations like Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Mexico, Afghanistan, Burundi etc, where journalists are being deliberately attacked compelling many of them to flee for other countries. The largest democracy in the globe witnessed the killing of six journalists last year, whereas the populous country lost five & two journalists to attackers respectively in 2015 & 2014. http://www.pressenza.com/2017/01/northeast-appears-safe-scribes/
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