The international Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF), said on Friday that more journalists had been killed in Sierra Leone this year than any other country in the world.
"Eight were killed in a few days in January by soldiers of the RUF, and the ninth was executed at the beginning of February by ECOMOG troops," RSF said in a statement released to coincide with the Togo talks. "Never since the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 have journalists come under such attack"
It said journalists in Sierra Leone had been threatened, attacked and tortured and it cited the case of Mustapha Sesay of the 'Standard Times' whose right eye was gouged by RUF rebels.
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