By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The business of ensuring justice for all victims weighs just as heavy on Aquino as head of state as it should on all those whose sworn duty it is to protect and ensure the life and welfare of all citizens but which, sadly, they still have to do so,” the NUJP said.
Rather than be cowed, a journalist prefers to be armed for protection, at the heels of another media killing, the second this week.
Press Release 26 April 2010 CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A former freelance radio reporter on 14 April 2010 was shot dead in Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental. Initial police reports indicated the killing to be election-related. Ozamis City is approximately 782.87 kilometers from Manila. Edwin Sigue, a councilor of barangay San Antonio who used to sideline as a…
PRESS RELEASE March 3, 2010 Today, March 3, 2010, we mark the 100th day since the November 23 Ampatuan Massacre, when 32 of our colleagues, along with 25 other people, were slaughtered in the worst election-related violence in our history and the worst single attack on the press ever. The National Union of Journalists of…
Arroyo’s Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre
November 27, 2009 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) demands the creation of an independent commission, to include media representatives, to investigate the Ampatuan massacre and the events that led to it. This is to help ensure that no whitewash will happen and to identify the roots and those responsible for this…
Today we say, “Enough.” Nov 27, 2009 The massacre of 57 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao goes beyond a rido or clan war. The sheer scope of barbarity, the brazenness of the murders betrays the perpetrators’ belief in being beyond the reach of the law. Women, lawyers and journalists – no one escaped the butchers’…
MANILA — Unidentified gunmen fired several shots at three media offices in Bangued, Abra province, last night, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported Thursday. At around 9 p.m. Wednesday night, two men in separate motorcycles fired at the steel gates of the St. Arnold Janssen Communication Center, which houses the Catholic-run…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA — Another Filipino journalist has been killed, the latest in a series of murders that prompted a media group to say that “impunity is alive and well in the Philippines.” Radio commentator Crispin Perez, 66, was shot dead on Friday outside his home in San Jose City, Occidental…