KABUL (SW): At a ceremony today commemorating the Monday's bloody attack on journalists in Kabul, a number of journalist and civil society activists said they are completely defenseless against the threats of the Taliban and ISIS groups, and the government and other organizations have failed to protect the lives of journalists in Afghanistan.
Bari Salam, a civil society activist said civil society, journalists, and even the government have failed against the Taliban and ISIS group.
According to Bari Salam, under the pretext of the peace process with the Taliban, no one has dared to raise his/her voice against the ISIS and the Taliban and to call them criminals and protest their crimes.
Sayed Tariq Majidi, a journalist at a private television said the government should identify the perpetrators of the attack on journalists and put them on trial per the law of the country.
Majidi urged the organizations that are defending the journalists to not look at the safety of journalists from the perspective of a project but to seriously strive to defend the journalists in the country.
Rahmatullah Alizada, a photojournalist from another media outlet said that most of the organizations who are working for the safety of journalists have been putting their own interests first and only raise their voice if a few journalists are killed or injured.
Attacks on journalists have been increasing on daily basis; meanwhile, the leaders of the National Unity government call themselves the defender of the freedom of speech in the country and have numerous times proclaimed empty promises that they will protect journalists’ rights in the country, jouranalists said at the ceremony.
Nice journalists and photographers were killed and four others were wounded on Monday in a suicide attack on journalists who went to cover another incident of suicide explosions in Shash Darak area of Kabul.
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