mostly in the West Bank city of Hebron. The New York-based CPJ honoured him with its International Press Freedom Award in 2001 for his work in Hebron where he was wounded and beaten many times.
"In the midst of frequent violence, and often under attack himself, Mazen was a determined witness who took constant risks in order to tell the world the news from the West Bank -- and more recently from Iraq," CPJ executive director Ann Cooper said in a statement on the committee's Web site.
The statement said the CPJ "calls for a full investigation into the shooting and a public accounting of the circumstances."
The U.S. military said on Sunday that its troops had "engaged" a Reuters cameraman. It said soldiers had thought his camera was a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer has called for "the fullest and most comprehensive investigation into this terrible tragedy".
Dana is the second Reuters cameraman to be killed since the U.S.-led force invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. His death brought to 17 the number of journalists or their assistants who have died in Iraq since the war began on March 20.
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BBC -Monday, 18 August
The calls by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders, RSF) in Paris follow that of Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer who called for "the fullest and most comprehensive investigation into this terrible tragedy".
Reuters Cameraman Killed For Filming U.S. Graves: Brother
Palestine Chronicle/Islam Online -Tuesday, August 19 2003
"'Mazen told me by phone few days before his death that he discovered a mass grave dug by U.S. troops to conceal the bodies of their fellow comrades killed in Iraqi resistance attacks ..'"
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The brother of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana said he was deliberately murdered for discovering mass graves of U.S. troops killed in Iraqi resistance attacks.
"The U.S. troops killed my brother in cold blood," Nazmi Dana told IslamOnline.net in exclusive statements.
"The U.S. occupation troops shot dead my brother on purpose, although he was wearing his press badge, which was also emblazoned on the car he was driving," he said.
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