Special Cafgu ‘abducts’ 12 Mindanao journalists By Fernan J. Angeles and Mario J. Mallari 02/22/2012

Special Cafgu ‘abducts’ 12 Mindanao journalists

By Fernan J. Angeles and Mario J. Mallari 02/22/2012

Twelve journalists were not forcibly dragged into a dimly-lit secluded safehouse neither were they blind-folded or hogtied as a typical abduction would normally be but they were rendered stranded in a remote village where they had to stay overnight and miss the deadline for news that they covered in Bayog town, Zamboanga del Sur.

The journalists, who claimed to have been held in isolation in an area where they have nowhere else to go, are facing probe over what the government claimed as a case of faking their abduction and blaming it to the region-based militia men detailed to a province-based Canadian mining firm.

In an advisory sent by Malacañang’s Presidential Communications Operations Office to the Tribune, the government shrugged off the abduction report as claimed by the Zamboanga-based journalists who were reported to have been forcibly held by the TVI Resources Development Inc.’s paramilitary unit in Sitio Balabag in Barangay Depore of Bayog town, Zamboanga de Sur on Sunday..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120222nat1.html