Dutch Journalist Killed by Russian Clusterbomb
Dutch journalist Stan Storimans, 39, was killed three days ago when Russian airplanes bombed the Georgian city of Gori. Storimans had 20 years of experience and planned to write a book about life as a journalist in hotbeds such as Iraq, Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Congo, Indonesia and Afghanistan.
Storimans worked for the biggest network in the Netherlands, RTL. According to the latest reports, he died in his hotel when the Russians dropped clusterbombs on Gori. Clusterbombs are meant to kill as many people as possible at one time. They are basically made up out of several little bombs. The little bombs spread around a bit so that they when they explode they do more damage than if they were one bigger bomb.
Sandra Roelofs, the First Lady of Georgia, wrote an e-mail to the news agency the ANP when she heard of Storimans’ death. Roelofs is Dutch, but married to Georgian President Saakashvili. The latter already said that his wife would attend the burial of the Dutch journalist.
Dutch reporter Jeroen Akkermans was also hit in the attack that killed Storimans, but he survived.
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