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May 20, 2011

Family Believes Missing British Journalist Slain by Gaddafi Forces 
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A British journalist missing in Libya for more than a month is now
believed to be dead. South African photographer Anton Hammerl had been
with a group of journalists freed this week after six weeks in
captivity. Two of the journalists‚—U.S. reporters James Foley and
Clare Morgana Gillis—say they witnessed Libyan forces shooting Hammerl
in the stomach and leaving him badly wounded. They do not believe he
survived the attack. In a statement, Hammerl's family denounced the
Libyan regime, saying: "From the moment Anton disappeared … we have
lived in hope as the Libyan officials assured us that they had Anton. It
is intolerably cruel that Gaddafi loyalists have known Anton’s fate
all along and chose to cover it up."



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