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Bernd Johann: Reporters targeted on Ukraine witch-hunt site
An armed pro-Russia militant attempts to stop journalists from accessing the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 19, 2014.
The Ukrainian website Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) has often attracted attention and caused scandal. Now the online forum has initiated a witch hunt for journalists who have covered the civil war in theseparatist territories of eastern Ukraine. Those include employees of Russian state media, as well as journalists from around the world. Most of those targeted, however, are Ukrainian journalists.
