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TAG SP 517: Reuters: Robert Fisk dibelasah teruk di Pakistan By Reuters 11/12/2001 11:00 pm Tue |
Wartawan Terkemuka, Robert Fisk dibelasah teruk di Pakistan
(Newspaper journalist badly beaten in Pakistan)
LONDON (Reuters): Wartawan British Robert Fish telah diserang
dengan teruknya pada hari Sabtu oleh satu gerombolan ganas di
Pakistan. Fisk, 55 tahun, adalah wartawan veteran yang membuat liputan untuk
akhbar The Independent, di London. Beliau telah dikeroyok oleh
sekitar 100 pelarian Afghan setelah keretanya rosak di tengah jalan
antara sempadan Pakistan Quetta dan Chaman.
'Itu merupakan satu pengalaman yang menakutkan dan saya memang
menanggung kesakitan yang amat sangat, tetapi bersyukur kerana
masih bernyawa,' demikian dia memberitahu seorang teman di 'The
Independent.' 'Saya akan menanggung parut luka untuk sepanjang
hayat saya. Adalah malang, saya mengalami kerosakan kereta di
tempat yang salah dan di waktu yang tidak memihak kepada saya.'
Kawannya itu telah memberitahu Reuters: 'Dia sedang merentasi
sebuah perkampungan yang dipenuhi para pelarian daripada
Kandahar. Robert memberitahu kami dia dapat tahu kemudiannya
bahawa merka telah diserang dengan bom.
'Dia berkata gelagat dua orang barat yang menolak sebuah kereta
yang rosak, telah menarik perhatian satu kumpulan manusia. Pada
mulanya mereka nampak mesra tetapi tiba-tiba seorang kanak-kanak
telah membaling batu yang mengena Robert dan membuatkan yang
lain terus membelasahnya. Robert Fisk mengalami kecederaan di kepala, muka dan tangan kerana
dibaling batu. Seorang jurucakap akhbar Independent memberitahu
bahawa Fisk sedang berehat di kamar hotelnya di Quetta.
'Robert berkata dia memang amat faham kenapa perkara itu berlaku,'
kata jurucakap itu. 'Orang-orang itu adalah pelarian. Mereka sudah
kehilangan segala-galanya. Robert mengerti kenapa mereka naik
marah. Dia tidak menaruh sebarang dendam terhadap mereka.'
Apabila ditanya apakah Fisk, yang memang terkenal sebagai seorang
pakar Timur Tengah, boleh meneruskan laporannya akan pergolakan
di Afghanistan, jurucakap itu berkata: 'Kami menjangkakan Robert
akan mula menulis semula untuk Independent pada hari Isnin.'
[Catatan penterjemah: Akan bermulakah budaya intifada di bumi
Afghanistan ataupun Pakistan? ] Terjemahan: SPAR Asal: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011208/80/ckxh4.html
Newspaper journalist badly beaten in Pakistan
LONDON (Reuters) - British journalist Robert Fisk was attacked and
badly beaten on Saturday by a mob in Pakistan.
Fisk, 55, a veteran foreign correspondent for the London based
Independent newspaper, was set upon by a group of around 100
Afghan refugees after his car broke down on the road between the
Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Chaman.
"It was a very frightening experience and I am in a lot of pain but I am
glad to be alive," he told a colleague on the Independent. "I'm going to
bear the scars for the rest of my life. Sadly I broke down in the wrong
place at the wrong time." The colleague told Reuters: "He was passing through a village full of
refugees who'd just escaped from Kandahar. Robert told me he
discovered later that they'd been bombed.
"He said that the sight of two westerners pushing a broken down car
attracted a crowd. They were friendly at first but then a child threw a
stone which hit him on the head and then the others joined in."
Fisk suffered injuries to his head, face and hands after being pelted by
stones. A spokeswoman for the Independent said Fisk was recovering
at his hotel in Quetta. "Robert says he completely understands why this happened," she told
Reuters. "These people were refugees. They've lost everything. Robert
says he understands why they're angry. He doesn't hold it against
them at all." Asked whether Fisk, widely acknowledged to be an expert on the
Middle East, would continue to report on the conflict in Afghanistan the
spokeswoman said: "We're expecting Robert to be writing for the
Independent on Monday." |