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Committee to protect journalist reports that India has been ranked on 13th in the list of Global Impunity Index. Global Impunity Index is those countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free. Death of journalists is increasing in our country. Every second day a journalists is being killed. In most of the cases no decisive actions are being taken place. In India, Journalists are those people who keep their life at risk and runs day and night just to fight for the justice for victims.
Surprisingly, media itself is not too vocal to fight for deceased journalists. The response of civil society is very poor as far as journalist’s issues are concerned.
On 5th September 2017, a journalist, activist and a critic of Bharatiya Janta Party, Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her house by three unidentified people in the city of Bengaluru. Though her death caused a mass protest across the country but the detectives didn’t identify even a single suspect or find the motive of the killing. After one month there is no clue of persons involved in the brutal murder while congress is also playing politics for mileage.
Apart from party line, after some days, another incident came to media of abduction and killing of another journalist in the left governed eastern Indian state of Tripura. With these two tragedies the country has started focusing on the safety of journalists in our country.
Why are journalists being killed? Why are journalists being targeted? May be the reason behind these questions is that most of the victims were covering reports of politics or corruption, these problems affects the entire range of reporting, with the journalist covering crime, business, culture, human rights and war, all appearing in the total of those killed.
The common public doesn’t take risk and fight for the justice of journalists. Till today no such matter was reported. But if we look at the recent case of Ryan International School in Gurgaon or the Nirbhaya case then thousands of people were conducting rallies and protest. Even the journalists too are humans; they too are becoming victims of major issues; they too have the right to live their life their own way; they decided to become a journalist to help the common people and surroundings and those common people itself are not standing beside them, when it’s time to stand for the journalists then everyone is quiet or no one is bothered about these people just because they are JOURNALISTS.
Just think!
Shima K. Sasi
