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| | PRESS FREEDOM: Record Number of Deaths for Expressing Ideas |
 | | On the American continent, the most dangerous country is still Colombia, where five reporters were assassinated in 2003 for their coverage of corruption cases and of the complicity with armed groups -- right-wing paramilitaries or leftist guerrillas -- "which control or are vying for entire regions" of the country. |
 | | In that category are the armed Islamic militant groups in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Pakistan and the Philippines; the Colombians Carlos Castaño, leader of the right-wing paramilitaries, and Manuel Marulanda, head of the leftist FARC guerrillas; the Basque group ETA, and the heir to the crown of Saudi Arabia, prince Abdullah. |
 | | Also on that list are presidents Hu Jintao, of China, Kim Jong Il, of North Korea, Fidel Castro, of Cuba, Muammar Ghaddafi, of Libya, Pervez Musharraf, of Pakistan, Vladimir Putin, of Russia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, of Tunisia, and Islam Karimov, of Uzbekistan. |
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