Reflection on UN International day to end impunity for crimes against journalists.
October 29, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Reflection on UN International day to end impunity for crimes against journalists.
The truth will set you free.
“The Truth will set you free”, the great man said.
Who will tell it as it is, those who hide and cower?
Or the journalists brave and strong that risk the consequence of talking truth to power?
They bring upon themselves the anger and the story of the dead,
The jackboot on the door, the beating on the head,
The sudden death by assassins highly paid by officials whose corruption is their evil stock and deadly trade.
What journalist brave and true can endure the fear and pain,
Of knowing that their life’s work could be useless and in vain?
We stand with all those, whose voices have been silenced, barred and blocked,
Innocent journalists jailed and tortured and who suffer electric shock.
Let all who in safety and in true freedom live,
And have the power to tell the truth and can give, true testimony against evil and terrible wrong, and with justice and the power of truth overcome the strong.
Shay Cullen
