Raipur: Humanitarian agency International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appealed to the journalists to highlight all dimensions of the issue while covering a conflict or a situation like Naxal violence.

"Media inputs give shapes to national or international opinion, hence, journalist should highlight all sides of a story while covering conflict," Communication Coordinator, the ICRC, Philippe Stoll said here.

The coordinator was speaking yesterday at a workshop on "Armed Conflict Situations - Emerging Challenges, Role and Responsibility of Media," organised by the ICRC and the Press Institute of India (PII).

"In the World War I, among those killed about five per cent were civilians. However, today the figure of civilian deaths had touched about 90 per cent in any conflict," said Surinder Singh Oberoi of ICRC.

Other speakers present at the workshop spoke about the ongoing fight between the Maoists on one side and the Chhattisgarh government and anti-Naxal operation activists Salwa Judum on the other.

"Chhattisgarh is facing an internal war like situation between the Maoists and Salwa Judum workers and State government," said senior journalist Yogesh Bajpeyi.

Journalists from various media organisations and students of journalism attended the day-long workshop.
Source : PTI