The International Communications Forum wishes to express its sadness at
the killing of Kenji Goto san and our grave concern at the continued kidnapping
and execution of journalists and aid workers by the militant group Daish a.k.a.
Isis. We were particularly saddened by the execution of the inspired
and courageous aid worker Peter Kassig who was well known to friends of
the NCF and now we are doubly saddened by the barbaric execution of the
outstanding Japanese freelance journalist and film-maker Kenji Goto san whom
we had hoped might be released unharmed as a consequence of the
Herculean efforts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to intervene.
Kenji Goto san is a writer of great stature. His work
on aids, on blood diamonds, on Afghanistan and on exposing other key issues has
been seminal. His work emphasises humanity with titles such as: "We want
peace not diamonds" or "Born in an aids village" or
"Prayers of Rwanda" or "If I could go to School". He is 47
years old and is survived by a wife and two children, one of
whom is a babe in arms.
In a recent interview
with a Japanese news site, Kenji Goto san is quoted by the BBC as
having said he wanted to help people in conflict areas.
"The places I visit to report face unbearable hardship,
but even there people live their daily lives," he said. "Those people
always have something to say, a message they want conveyed. If I can help relay
their message to the world, it might lead to a solution of some sort. If that
happens, perhaps I can say my job was a 'success'."
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3 comments:
thank you for this moving tribute to the cruelly murdered Kenji Goto san .
We all are outraged at these barbaric killings of innocent idealistic people, who risked their lives, in order to help forgotten ailing and impoverished communities in their sub-human existence.
Thank you for your strong message of solidarity and a genuine expression of sympathy for those suffered in the brutal killing of Kenji Goto. Your message has helped us in this most challenging time in our relations with the Middle East.
God bless his soul
May he be in peace and rest "Us on earth have to deal with treason
And infidelity"
Such it's the place of Angels where
Heaven stand still "but God and history will never forget though they may forgive"
My condolences
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