Pierre Anceaux

Year: 1994

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Location: Baidoa, Somalia

Press organization: freelance

What's Pierre Anceaux's story?

Anceaux, a Swiss journalist on assignment with the charity group CARITAS-Switzerland, was shot and killed in a CARITAS-run refugee camp in Baidoa, southwest of Mogadishu. Armed men in a jeep fired at Anceaux as he was interviewing a Somali woman. CARITAS shut down its operations in Somalia after the murder.

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