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• In a conflict like the war in Ukraine, many journalists risk their lives to report the truth and reveal war crimes committed by both sides.
• But when journalists themselves are targeted, these war crimes almost always go unpunished.
• At least 15 media workers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale war in February 2022.
• Threatening, attacking, disappearing and murdering journalists is not a new tactic of war in general – and certainly not unknown in Russia.

A dangerous (but vital) occupation

• In both instances, the media workers were able to survive the attacks and live to tell us the story.
• The same day, Ukrainian photojournalist Maks Levin, covering the war for Reuters, and his bodyguard Oleksiy Chernyshov were killed.
• He and his colleague Corrado Zunino were targeted by snipers, despite wearing vests clearly identifying them as press.

Heat of battle or coldblooded murder?

• Journalists are protected as civilians under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which Russia ratified in 1954.
• They are also considered civilians, but have the additional protection of being treated as prisoners of war if captured (from the third Geneva Convention).
• How many killings are in the heat of battle and how many are state-sanctioned?
• Kelly Bjorklund is a senior writer and editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

• Visitors this year will get the chance to see the Roman bathhouse at Birdoswald before it is reburied by archaeologists.
• Birdoswald was a Roman military base on Hadrian’s Wall, which was built in the AD120s during the reign of the emperor Hadrian.
• It will help preserve the site for future archaeologists who might have more modern methods and can study the evidence better or ask new questions.

A destructive process

• The bathhouse is preserved in parts to the height of 2 metres and contains a heated room known as a hypocaust.
• This is a system of water supply, which most likely led to a water heating system.
• Because of the destructive nature of excavations, archaeologists rarely excavate whole buildings or sites.
• Instead, a careful excavation strategy is made to target the areas that are likely to yield the most useful information.

To bury, or not to bury?

• At Birdoswald, the questions include the use, the significance and the role of the settlement outside the fort.
• The archaeologists at the bathhouse are coming to this point and have decided to cover it back up (known as backfilling) once their work is over.
• The most widely reported risk to archaeological heritage is the lack of maintenance and conservation of in situ excavated remains.
• So, in many countries, including the UK where it is standard practice, backfilling of excavated sites is a condition of excavation permits.

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