CATHOLIC WEEKLY'S EDITORIAL ON MEDIA AND HUMAN DIGNITY

ZAGREB, July 30 (Hina) - By publishing photos of Saddam Hussein's killed sons, the Americans in an coarse manner (mis)used the media, and it is true that those working in the media, including the Croatian media, allowed to be (mis)used, according to the editorial in the latest issue of the leading Croatian Catholic weekly called Glas Koncila. #L# The editorial entitled 'The Media and Human Dignity' says that the act of publishing photos of corpses of Uday and Qusay was the American grave violation of ethics for treatment of the deceased. A semi-official newspaper of the Vatican, L'Osservatore Romano, explicitly warned on 26 and 27 July that with such conduct the Americans violated provisions of international law on the treatment of the defeated side. The editorial in Glas Koncila warns that politicians and media workers in neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina had (mis)used media when they had not reported about some activities of Bosnian Catholics. (hina) ms sb