Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Filipino journalists remember murdered colleagues





Filipino journalists in the southern city of Kidapawan held a unity run on Wednesday to commemorate the brutal murders of at least 32 media workers in Maguindanao province last year. (Mindanao Examiner Photo – Arlene Solmerano)


KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 23, 2010 – Filipino journalists in the southern city of Kidapawan held a unity run on Wednesday to commemorate the brutal murders of at least 32 media workers in Maguindanao province last year.

The journalists, mostly members of the Mindanao Press Corps, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and the People’s Movement against Impunity and Extrajudicial Killings, demanded justice and urged authorities to end the culture of violence and extrajudicial killings in the country.

At least 32 journalists who were accompanying a political caravan in Maguindanao province had been killed by gunmen in the town of Ampatuan.

Authorities linked the murders to the powerful Ampatuan clan whose patriarch and sons implicated by the police and military in the November 23 attack were arrested and jailed. (Geo Solmerano and Arlene Solmerano)

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