To All Members:

August 22, 2012

THE FCCJ IS SHOCKED TO LEARN OF THE DEATH OF MIKA YAMAMOTO IN SYRIA.
CALLS ON ALL SIDES OF THE CONFLICT TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS.

 In common with colleagues and friends all over the world, members of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan were shocked and appalled to learn of the death in Syria this week of the Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto of the Japan Press news agency.

 Ms Yamamoto was a brave and determined reporter who deservedly won the Vaughn-Ueda Prize for her work in Iraq in 2003. In her dedication to reporting the plight of the civilian victims of war, especially women and children, she upheld the highest ideals of the profession, and was an inspiration to many of us.

 Mika Yamamoto would not want the tragedy of one foreigner to be elevated over the deaths and suffering of many more Syrians whose names and faces are largely unrecorded. But, on behalf of the FCCJ, I offer my sincere condolences to her family and friends, I salute her achievements and memory, and I call on all sides in the conflict in Syria to do everything they can to protect journalists and the essential work which they perform.

Georges Baumgartner
President
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

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