A total of 110 reporters were killed in...
them victims of violence between government troops, outlawed arms groups and drug cartels, according to the review.Mexico - where drug cartels are involved in a violent standoff with the security forces - is the fourth most dangerous country, with 38 killed in the last decade. A total of 11 were murdered there in 2009.
Russia occupies a high fifth place, with 35 journalists murdered between 2000 and 2009, five of them last year.
"There has been in Russia a culture of impunity for years now when it comes to the murder of journalists," Mills said. "And in the vast majority of cases, the assailants were never caught, never punished, never prosecuted, and when you have a culture of impunity like that, it simply emboldens other would-be killers, other would-be attackers to do the same thing."
Asia was named at the most dangerous region for journalists this decade, with 238 journalists, or 33% of all the decade"s victims, murdered there. Thirty-one journalists
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