Burkina Faso's journalists to mourn victims of Paris attack
Xinhua, January 14, 2015 Adjust font size:
Burkina Faso's media practitioners plan to observe a day of mourning for journalists killed in the Jan. 7 attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Free audio-visual national union of Faso and the newspaper publishers' society have called on print and online media to display a black banner in the front page of their publications on Wednesday.
Audio-visual media across the country shall go off the air for a minute the same day at midday.
Besides, journalists in Burkina Faso will gather for a remembrance ceremony from 4:00 p.m. local time in front of the French embassy in Ouagadougou.
Last Wednesday, two heavily armed men broke into the headquarters of the magazine and killed 12 people.
The government of Burkina Faso has condemned the attack and expressed sympathy of Burkina people to French people, urging solidarity with France.
"We cannot tolerate that individuals under the cover of whichever religion, can be allowed to carry out such an unfortunate attack," Prime Minister Isaac Yacouba Zida said. Endi