The election-related massacre of at least a dozen journalists in Maguindanao province on Monday is among the deadliest single events recorded for the press worldwide.
Research by the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists showed the death toll in Monday’s carnage exceeded the fatalities in the attack on the Al-Shaabiya television station in Baghdad in 2006. Eleven were killed in the incident, five of them journalists and the rest media support workers.
The other deadly events, according to CPJ, occurred in the 1990s: A car bomb killed five journalists for Eenadu Television, or E-TV, who were on assignment in Hyderabad, India in 1997, while four died during a gun battle between Communist hardliners and Russian special forces over control of Ostankino Television Center in Moscow in 1993.
“Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day,” Reporters Without Borders said.
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haiku ni boy buang
ako si boy buang mag-ingat
mga kalaban sa pulitika sinoman aking isasadsad
diablo aking ama walang katulad
Not a lot of people can operate a backhoe specially in Maguindanao. Finding the backhoe operator is the key to solving this Massacre. Unless he is already one of the cadaver recovered.
bakit nga ba hindi nalang ibigay sa kanila ang Maguindanao at bahala na sila magpatayan..sa mata ng mundo..barbarians ang lahi natin..wild, wild wild..kaya lang kung ibigay sa kanila hindi maging pang gulo si putot…hindi naging dayang dayang si oh my gal so very…hindi maging peace ambassador si money packed…ay ay kalisud natuod..
bakit nga ba hindi nalang ibigay sa kanila ang Maguindanao at bahala na sila magpatayan..
Yan ang gusto nilang mangyari Ms. Rose, kaya gusto nilang ihiwalay ang Mindanao sa Pinas? SURE, matutulad yan sa Somalia puro sanggano ang mga lingkod-bulsa…gustong maghari-harian?
Angal dito, angal doon…kesyo pinababayaan daw ng National gov’t ang Mindanao, diyes por singko…paanong titino at tatahimik doon e ang daming berdugo.
Kahit saan ka sumuling eh may berdugo lord na naghahari-harian sa kanilang balwarte…pagkontra mo e 10ft. below the ground ang kalalayan mo.
Kita mo pati yong sasakyan e erase…erase…erase, ang kaso dinaga ang mga diablo kasi nga padating daw ang militar yaks ibig sabihin may informer sila sa militar kaya alam nila ang galaw nito.
Ang kaso di nila kayang kargahin ang backhoe kaya naiwan sa crime scene…IBIDENSYA mga Igan, pero walang aamin niya posible si poncio pilato?
Kung nagkataon e magtuturo ang mga diablo na yan kundi naiwan ang backhoe…buti nga, akala nýo nakaisa na kayo ha!