Journalists urge next gov’t to act on media killings
By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/24/2010 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) is calling on the incoming administration to hold those accountable in last November’s massacre of more than 50 individuals, including 30 journalists. In a message sent to journalists through text, the NUJP said “let us demand from the incoming administration state accountability in the Ampatuan massacre and other media killings.” A commemorative ceremony was held at the Port Area where most of Manila broadsheets are located marking the sixth month of the massacre. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has earlier announced an aid package for the exclusive use of the families of the 57 persons who were waylaid and then executed last Nov. 23, 2009 in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, by a group of over 100 armed men that government and private prosecutors said was led by Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. The DoJ had made a final ruling keeping suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and his cousin, former Maguindanao Vice Gov. Akmad Ampatuan, on the multiple murder charge sheet relating to the Maguindanao massacre, on the strength of new evidence presented by lawyers of the victims’ families pointing to the existence of probable cause to indict them for conspiracy in the gruesome killings.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100524hed6.html |
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