Kenji Gotō

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Kenji Gotō ( Japanese 後 藤 健 二 Gotō Kenji ; born September 22, 1967 in Sendai , Japan ; † end of January 2015 ), also Kenji Goto Jogo , was a Japanese journalist who focused on children in crisis areas, AIDS , hunger , poverty and war . He was murdered by the Islamic State terrorist organization .

Life

Gotō was born in 1967 in Sendai, a city in northeastern Japan. In 1991 he completed his studies in sociology at the Hōsei University . In 2006 he was honored for his documentary novel Daiyamondo yori heiwa ga hoshii: Kodomo heishi Muria no kokuhaku ("I wish peace more than diamonds. Confessions of child soldier Muria") about blood diamonds and child soldiers in Sierra Leone . In Eizu no mura ni umarete: Inochi o tsunagu 16-sai no haha ​​Natāsha ("Born in an AIDS village. The 16-year-old mother Natascha clinging to life") he described the fate of teenage mothers in an " AIDS village “In Estonia . With Ruwanda no inori: Naisen o ikinobita kazoku no monogatari ("Rwanda's prayer. The story of a family that survived the war") he addressed the fate of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda and in Moshimo gakkō ni yuketara: Afuganisutan no shōjo Mariamu no monogatari ("If I could go to school. The story of the Afghan girl Mariam") he reported on the difficulties girls in Afghanistan have in going to school.

In 2011 he got involved with UNICEF in the areas affected by the Tōhoku earthquake in northeastern Japan. He and his wife Rinko Jōgo had two daughters.

death

Although the Japanese government reportedly warned him against this on several occasions, Gotō traveled to Syria in October 2014 to seek the release of his compatriot Haruna Yukawa , whom he had already met in Syria in April 2014. In doing so, he himself was taken prisoner. In a first video from January 20, 2015, which the two Japanese showed together, IS demanded a ransom of USD 200 million and threatened the murder of the hostages. On January 24, a video was released with a still image of Goto holding a photo of the beheaded Yukawa. In an audio message on January 29, IS demanded an exchange of Gotō for the terrorist Sadschida al-Rishawi imprisoned in Jordan . The Jordanian government only wanted to respond to this request if the fighter pilot Muʿādh al-Kasāsba was released at the same time . On January 31, a video was published in which the beheading of Goto by Jihadi John could be seen. The actual act was not shown, but in the end the decapitated corpse was shown. It later became known that al-Kasāsba was said to have been dead by this time. A video of his execution was released on February 3, 2015.

See also

Works

  • Yōkoso bokura no gakkō e ( よ う こ そ ボ ク ら の 学校 へ ). NHK Shuppan, Tokyo 2003
  • Daiyamondo yori heiwa ga hoshii: Kodomo heishi Muria no kokuhaku ( ダ イ ヤ モ ン ド よ よ 平和 が ほ ほ し い 子 ど も 兵士 ・ ム リ ア の 告白 ). Chōbunsha, Tokyo 2005, ISBN 4-8113-8001-0
  • Eizu no mura ni umarete: Inochi o tsunagu 16-sai no haha ​​Natāsha ( エ イ ズ の 村 に 生 ま れ て 命 を つ な ぐ 16 歳 の 母 ・ ナ タ ー シ ャ ). Chōbunsha, Tokyo 2007, ISBN 4-8113-8474-1
  • Ruwanda no inori: Naisen o ikinobita kazoku no monogatari ( ル ワ ン ダ の 祈 り 内 戦 を 生 き の び び た 家族 の 物語 ). Chōbunsha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 4-8113-8497-0
  • Moshimo gakkō ni yuketara: Afuganisutan no shōjo Mariamu no monogatari ( も し も 学校 に 行 け た ら ア フ ガ ガ ニ ス タ ン の 少女 ・ ・ マ リ ア ム の 物語 ). Chōbunsha, Tokyo 2009, ISBN 4-8113-8611-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Plus that quelques heures pour sauver Kenji Goto Jogo
  2. ↑ ARD-Tagesschau: IS kills second Japanese hostage ( Memento from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Kenji Gotō: Daiyamondo yori heiwa ga hoshii ; in the Stanford University Libraries
  4. ↑ Japan Says It Warned Goto Against Entering Syria
  5. ↑ Japanese hostages of IS: Jihadists demand 200 million dollars spiegel.de, January 20, 2015
  6. ↑ Japan checks alleged decapitation video spiegel.de, January 24, 2015
  7. ^ War of nerves over IS hostages spiegel.de, January 29, 2015
  8. ↑ Christoph Sydow, Associated Press : Killed IS hostage: Japan mourns Kenji Goto. In: Spiegel Online from February 1, 2015 (accessed February 1, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Gotō, Kenji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goto Jogo, Kenji (alternative name); 後 藤 健 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sendai
DATE OF DEATH January 2015