Original title: Reference News 90 years of history [67] - the pride and unforgettable memory of Chinese journalists
Reference News Network reported on October 14 that in the list of martyrs of Xinhua News Agency supplemented and revised by Xinhua news agency in 2016, she was the last martyr: in the late night of May 7, 1999 local time, NATO led by the United States brazenly bombed our Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with missiles. Shao yunhuan, a reporter of Belgrade branch of Xinhua news agency, died at the age of 48.
Without the precision guided missile bombing that NATO later falsely called "accidental bombing" and actually cold-blooded murder, Shao yunhuan would still be a member of the editorial department of reference news after the end of his term abroad. However, history cannot be assumed. Later, her famous article "long night without lights" became the last report she sent back to reference news.
As always, her works are plain, touching and reasonable. She wrote: "For more than a month, we have been used to the explosion that often sounds after midnight. Every night, we wait for the frightening sound like 'waiting for another boot upstairs to fall off'... Living in irregular panic and uneasiness for a long time, we all feel extremely tired physically and mentally, and even laugh that we have 'Kosovo War syndrome'. However, we After all, they are foreigners. As the real victims of the local people, what is their mood? "
Shao yunhuan, who is proficient in Serbian and English and has long studied the problems of Yugoslavia and the Balkans, is a rare expert reporter of Xinhua news agency. After her sacrifice, many media asked her friends and colleagues: do you think Shao yunhuan considered going there at this moment is dangerous or even may sacrifice her life? The answers of friends and colleagues are: "No. she didn't think about it. What she was worried about was whether the manuscript could be sent out."