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Posté le: 10 Jan 2004 01:40 Sujet du message: Les journalistes japonais prennent des cours de combat avant de partir pour l'Irak
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Les journalistes japonais prennent des cours de combat avant de partir pour l'Irak
Consequence de la decision du gouvernement japonais de participer à la "reconstruction de l'Irak", les journalistes aussi doivent se préparer avant de partir sur le terrain.
Plus de 100 journalistes japonais ont suivi un entrainement au combat de quelques heures, certains d'entre eux se rendront en Irak pour suivre l'activité des forces d'auto-defense japonaises.
Source : The Japan Times
Vu sur : Asia Media
JAPAN: Reporters get Iraq combat lessons
The Ground Self-Defense Force held basic protective and survival drills Thursday for Japanese reporters planning to cover the GSDF deployment in Iraq
Friday, January 9, 2004
By Nao Shimoyachi
The Ground Self-Defense Force held basic protective and survival drills Thursday for Japanese reporters planning to cover the GSDF deployment in Iraq.
A Ground Self-Defense Force member teaches reporters planning to cover the GSDF deployment in Iraq how to crawl at the Asaka drill site on the Tokyo-Saitama border.
More than 100 reporters joined the four-hour-long special exercise at the Self-Defense Forces' Asaka drill site on the Tokyo-Saitama border.
The main part of the drills took the form of a field simulation, starting with an attack on a bus carrying reporters.
Wearing protective suits weighing more than 10 kg, they received instructions on how to lie prone when a gunshot is heard, crawl forward and escape into a GSDF camp.
The reporters were also given lessons on land mines and unexploded shells, as well as survival skills if they are caught on their own, such as how to start a fire and water-purification techniques.
The drills were conducted at the request of reporters, whose employers want to ensure the safety of their staff.
A reporter from a major newspaper whose editorial position supports the GSDF dispatch to help rebuild Iraq said he believes his company is becoming less enthusiastic about sending journalists there because media casualties could prompt public calls for withdrawal of the troops.
The government is also concerned about the impact of civilian casualties.
On Dec. 26, the Foreign Ministry urged the Defense Agency's public relations office to limit the number of reporters covering the deployment and not to give any briefings on the locations of GSDF camps there, which the ministry claims would help draw more reporters, according to agency officials.
Negotiations between the two government bodies is ongoing, although they have agreed that limiting the number of reporters is already unrealistic.
Japanese reporters are expected to pack the southern city of Samawah, which is estimated to have a population of only 40,000 in its core section.
Rooms at Samawah's two hotels have already been rented by major Japanese media organizations since last fall, when the government was still deliberating when to dispatch the troops.
Date Posted: 1/9/2004 _________________ Michael_Voyageur
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