Noong Huwebes, binaril at napatay si Martin Roxas, brodkaster ng estasyong DYVR ng radio Mindanao Network sa Roxas City, Capiz.
Si Roxas ay pang-apat na journalist na napatay dito sa Pilipinas sa taong ito at pag-59 sa ilalim ng administrasyon ni Gloria Arroyo mula 2001.
Tama nga ang sabi ng Reporters sans Frontiere, ang isang international na organisasyon na naka-base sa France na tumutulong maproteksyunan ang kalayaan sa pamamahayag, na ang Pilipinas ang napaka-mapanganib na lugar para sa journalists sa buong mundo, sunod lamang sa Iraq.
Noong Lunes, binaril rin si Dennis Cuesta, isa ring radio brodkaster sa General Santos city. Nag-aagaw buhay pa rin si Cuesta hanggang ngayon sa hospital.
Noong Hunyo 30, binaril si Bert Sison, isang correspondent ng isang local newsppaer at brodkaster sa Sariaya, Quezon din, ng mga naka-motorsiklo na killer. Kasama pa ni Sison ang kanyang asawa at anak sa kotse ng barilin siya.
Noong Abril 7 naman, binaril din sa Pasig City ng mga naka-motorsiklong lalaki si Benfredo Acabal, publisher ng isang dyaryo.
Ang programa ni Roxas sa radyo na may pamagat, “Targetanay sa Udto” ay bumabatikos sa mga pulitiko. Sabi ni Jose Torres Jr., NUJP chairperson at Rowena Paraan, secretary-general ang pagbaril kay Roxas, na nangyari mga ala-una ng hapon ay salungat sa pahayag ng pamahalaan na nakontrol na nila ang extra-judicial killing o walang pakundangang pagpatay lalo na sa mga journalist.
Bilang journalist din, nababahala ako sa ganitong nangyayari hindi lamamang dahil kapwa journalist ang biktima kungdi sa nawalang pagpahalaga ng buhay ng tao. Parang pumpatay lang ng manok.
Nakakabahala rin ang kawalang pagpahalaga sa hustisya ng mga may pakana nitong krimen.
Alam ko na marami naman talaga ang naiinis sa mga journalist. Porke sobra naman daw kami kung magbatikos. Marami rin ang nagre-reklamo na mayayabang at abusado raw ang mga journalists.
Inaamin ko marami naman talaga sa amin ang abusado, mayabang at corrupt. Kapag may alam kayong masamang ginawa ng journalist, isumbong nyo sa pulis or editor niya. Ibulgar nyo para maparusahan.
Gusto rin namin linisan ang aming hanay ng mga mamahayag. Ngunti hindi naman sa paraan ng pagpatay.
Tayo ay demokrasya at may institusyon tayo ng hustisya. Kahit sino ang may kasalanan, journalist man o hindi, dapat managot. Kaya nga kailangan matibay ang ating mga institusyon- pamamahayag, hustisya, pulis, military at iba pa- para kung may check and balance. Kung may mali, kailangan ituwid.
Ang pagbatikos ng mga mali sa pamahalaan at kung sino man ang lumalabag sa batas ay isa sa obligasyon ng media para lalong tumibay ang ating demokrasya. Magagawa lamang ng media ito kung may tunay na kalayaan. Dapat ito ay proteksyunan.
It appears that there’s a pattern in the killings. Death squads are riding on a motor bike. Democracy is dead in the Philippines under illegitimate Arroyo government. Killers are roaming free and probably protected by police and military scalawags. General Santos City RMN broadcaster Dennis Cuesta died Saturday afternoon. He may rest in peace.
Ingat! We will pray for you all journalists.
SWS survey results, actual socio-economic situation, scandals, obvious indifference to the plight of the people…no amount of image building can ever cover up this administrations’ failure…
I never really put much thought on the moslem faith until I read this book…
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/svnotes.pdf
I think there is equality in the murders and killings. In the order of the day, anyone in the line of fire must not be spared. Journalists or not.
It’s the same modus operandi, and yes, DKG, there is the connection or lead to the police under the AFP, and this explains why none of these murders since the Garutay ambitioned to be at the MalaKaniyaLang Palace.
In November, 2000 at the start of the campaign for the removal of Erap, a radio broadcaster in Zamboanga was gunned down in broad daylight while he was riding on a tricycle on his way to work. He was with his cousin as a matter of fact, and the cousin saw the assassins who were on a motorbike.
The broadcaster was a member of our church and I sent the news to the Deseret News in Utah. Members of our church in the US who read that news in fact wrote to Erap, and he responded by sending some NBI to investigate on the case. I understand that he likewise gave some money to the family of the victim. Unfortunately, Erap was removed as we all know, and the investigation was discontinued after his removal. In short, the case has become another one of the statistics.
Over in Japan, takot ang police namin dito sa mga media dahil malakas talaga sila.
If this kind of thing happens in Japan, maraming police officials ang matatanggal sa trabaho because their failure to solve cases such as these murders of journalists in the Philippines will be considered incompetence and inefficiency of the police, and possible deterioration of peace and order that the ordinary citizens naturally will not condone and tolerate.
Bakit hindi iyan binabatikos ng media? Dapat binabanatan iyan and the heads of the police and military socked for their incompetence and inefficiency. Isama na rin iyong garutay na ayaw bumaba kahit na hindi naman niya kaya.
They should also demand for the separation of the police from the military so there will be no overlapping of functions that render the police completely hopeless and useless as a matter of fact. Sino bang gunggong ang gumawa ng ganyang panukalang magsama ang pulis at militar? Ang bobo naman!
…and this explains why none of these murders since the Garutay ambitioned to be at the MalaKaniyaLang Palace has ever been solved.
Priesthood, elders and those doing missionary works usually do not get paid. So, the killing of that radio broadcaster if he was doing God’s work, his death would not be in vain.
Erap was successful in reclaiming the camps occupied by the Muslim rebels despite strong opposition from the Catholic Church. That was one of the things that triggered his ouster. After his downfall, the Evil Bitch allowed the camps to be taken again by the rebels.
The people need to take back their country from the corrupt hoodlums, first and foremost, if they want killing to stop. Since this political hoodlums ain’t about to do nothing that will disrupt their way of life. Killing of journalist and activist are not their high priority, but the fattening of their bank accounts and vacationing abroad. I suspect, killing will go on, it’ll only get worsen before it get any better, but I won’t count on it. As we all aware, killing is not a well kept secret in the Philippines, for decades people has accepted it as part of day to day living, and they go on living. They got enough problem in worrying where the next meal will come from, let alone worrying about killing of others. Moreover, killing is very common in the Philippines and for few thousand pesos you can get someone terminated. No big deal, since whore Gloria already set a good example.
10 Agosto 2008
Maiba lamang po.
Nabasa ko ko kasi sa pahayagan na itong si kalihim favila ay nagmamaktol kung bakit daw ba binabanatan si presidenTONG at si bingot, e kundi naman pala sya gago e, alam naman ng karamihan na itong si bingot e super ang pagkasipsip sa impakta. tama sya, lahat nga tao gusto umasenso ang buhay, pero ang nakapagtataka e makalipas ang ilang maigsing taon, simula ng si bingot e maging kalihim ng DENR ay naging pinuno ng isang pribadong kompanya???
Kung iisipin nyo, ang ibig sabihin nun ay si bingot habang nasa hanay pa ng gobyerno ay mayroon ng ginagawang transakyon sa minahan, hindi ba bago sya naging talunan sa pagka senador ay maikling nanungkulan bilang pinuno ng kasipsipan (chief of staff) ay sya ang kalihim ng DENR??? isipin naman dapat ni favila ang ganitong sitwasyon. Isa pa kundi ba naman isa’t kalahating hunghang itong si favila, e karamihan nga sa pinoy walang tiwala sa impakta e, magaling kasi ang impakta sa pagkukunwari at pang-aagaw. Ang problema kay PABILE e, mayaman kasi ang angkan nya at wala naman mawawala sa kanya at kanyang pamilya.
Sino ba ang tanga??? ang tanga o ang nagtatanga-tangahan???Mr. PABILE ikaw na sumagot ng katanungan na iyan, at sa aking paniwala mas matalino ka kesa sa akin.
prans
Of course Mike Defensor used his connection to Malacanang in cornering the contracts of his two mining firms. It doesn’t matter if he’s already out of Malacanang when the deals were made. His influence and strong connection with the Evil Bitch
resulted in closing the deals with the Chinese investors. Otherwise, who is he? Why would these Chinese deal with that Little Mouse whose only credential was to make up stories and lie?
Prans: simula ng si bingot e maging kalihim ng DENR ay naging pinuno ng isang pribadong kompanya???
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Sa amin may batas laban diyan. Dito bawal ang nagmo-mnoonlightning kapag nasa government employ ka. In fact, maski iyong mga embassy dito sinasabihan ng aming Ministry of Foreign Affairs na di puedeng mag-parttime ang mga empleyado halimbawa ng Philippine Embassy sa mga pribado, etc. kompaniya dito sa Japan.
Dapat may batas din na ibawal ang ganyang abuso na ginagawa ng lalaki ni Garutay. Conflict of interest ang tawag diyan sa totoo lang kasi iyan ang nagiging dahilan kung bakit may palakasan gaya halimbawa lumalakas sa kurakutan iyong mga kompaniyang nagpapasahod sa mga katulad halimbawa ni Bingot on government employ. Bakit iyan kino-confirm kasi ng Commission on Appointments?
Kawawang bansa! Wala na ba talagang matino?
Ang batas sa Pilipinas ay para sa mayayaman at may connection sa gobyerno,hindi ka rin makapagpapagamot kung wala kang pera,mamimilipit ka na sa sakit ay bibigyan ka lang ng aspirin.Kapag barangay captain o local official ka at kumontra kay Gloria walang makukuhang proyekto ang iyung nasasakupan,pagdating uli ng election ay hindi ka na iboboto ng tao dahil wala kang nagawa,wala silang pakinabang sa iyo.Ganyan doon sa amin na naobserbahan ko,kaya kahit ayaw nila kay mayor,governor,congressman,presidenti ay umaayon na rin sila at kapag kumontra ka naman ay patay ka talaga baka masalvage ka pa.Kailangan na talagang gumising ang taong bayan at ipaglaban nila ang kanilang natitirang dignidad at karapatan para mabago na ang batas at hindi para sa may pera lamang.
Para mabago ang Pilipinas dapat si San Jose,San Pedro o kaya’y si San Pablo ang maging presidenti.
Cocoy, buti’t itinigil mo kay San Pablo, baka natuloy pa kay San Tiago (Miriam? Dyuskupo!) Baka tuluyan tayong ma-flip.
Sinabi mo pa, Cocoy. This reminds me of the story of a friend of ours in Daly City. Pareho silang pilipino kaya lang iyong lalaki may lahing itim kaya hindi mukhang pilipino.
Nagbakasyon sila sa Pilipinas pero on the way to or from some trip sa Olongapo, tumaas ang blood pressure noong babae at nag-collapse dahil siguro sa init at hindi na sanay. Sa Daly City nga naman, all year round maginaw. Aba, komo stateside sila, mamamatay na iyong tao, kung anu-ano pa raw na attempt sa pangungurakot ang gustong gawin ng ospital sa kanila.
Hindi agad inasikaso ang na-stroke kaya lumala ang condition. In short, namatay. Aba, ang laki daw ng sinisingil at kung hindi raw naglagak ng malaking pera ang kawawang asawa ng namatay, ayaw pa raw ibigay ang bangkay sa kanila. Mangani-ngani daw isumpa ng asawa at anak ng namatay ang Pilipinas sa naging karanasan nila. Ang alam ko, hindi na sila umuwi mula noon sa Pilipinas. Kinuha na lang daw nila ang mga malalapit nilang kamag-anak para hindi na sila mananabik na umuwi sa Pilipinas.
Kaya sabi noong lalaki, ano raw ang ipinagmamalaking pagka-religious ng mga pilipino na mukha raw hindi nakakaintindi ng tunay na kawanggawa! Lungkot di ba?
Si Martin Roxas ay reporter ng RMN sa Roxas City, namatay kahit pa nadala sa Roxas Hospital.
Roxas-Roxas-Roxas. Hindi siya umabot ng 08-08-08.
Yang mga mining explorations na kagaya niyang dala ni Defensor na “investor” daw ay ingat ang kailangan diyan.
Una, ang magmimina ng wala pang katiyakan ay hindi kaagad-agad nagpapakawala ng pera. Umaasa lamang iyan sa mga mag-iinvest sa kanilang “hunting expedition” kung saan halos laway lang ang puhunan at ang ginagastos nila ay iyung makukuha nila sa local investors na maaaring bumili ng stocks halimbawa sa stock market.
Wala dapat ikagulat na nag-witness pa si Pandack Omama sa pirmahan na iyan dahil gusto lang nilang tumabo ng puhunan mula sa mga nag-aakalang magandang investment iyan dahil na-endorso ng Unano. Alam naman nating kung hindi dummy, crony rin lang naman yang mga kumpanyang iyan at kilala na ninyo siguro kung sino ang makikinabang kung maraming mahakot na financier yang project.
Iyan ang dahilan kung bakit ang mga sikat na minahan ay hindi basta-basta ikino-commit ang kanilang resources sa exploration stage. Kadalasan ay nagii-spin off ng isang bagong maliit na kumpanya para di maapektuhan ang kita ng isang malakas na minahan sa kanilang libro.
Bibili lang ako ng mining stocks kapag lumabas na yung geodetic reports na kumukumpirma na merong sapat na output ang makukuha sa isang approved site. Sa ngayon, malayo pa iyang project ni Defensor na iyan.
Kung gusto ninyong magunaw ang pera ninyo bago mag-2010, ilagay ninyo dito sa project na ito! Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?
Isa pang nakakakilabot na pangyayari sa mga mamamahayag ay yung 11-4 decision ng Supreme Court laban kay Jake Macasaet sa isyu ng lagayan na sangkot ang isang SC Justice na babae. Si Yñares-Santiago yata ang involved.
tongue,
I have a friend who got into a JV with BHP for a 60/40 arrangement. Until now 17 years, millions of pesos later, no serious mining activity has happened. These big mining conglomerates practice this “mine banking” modus. The case is pending in Singapore but it looks like its a losing battle…
Not one case has been solved, not a single military officer or soldier prosecuted for the murders and disappearances of activists such as Jonas Burgos, Luisa Posa Dominado, Shirley Cadapan, Karen Empeno, and thousands more.
Last year the Permanent People’s Tribunal at The Haghue, Netherlands, concluded its meticulous appraisal of massive evidence with the judgment that the Arroyo regime and its sponsor, the Bush administration, were guilty of “gross and systematic violation of human rights, economic plunder and transgression of the Filipino people’s sovereignty.
(Ang palay ay nakayuko tila ba sumusuko? o naghihintay ng karit at kamao?)
This is one way of suppressing nationalism in our country. Its been happening since the word FILIPINO came to be.
Tanong lang po: Hindi kaya dahil nabibili ang ilan sa mamamahayag kaya sila hindi nagkakaisa, at kung kaya naman napapatumba ang ilan sa kanila nang wala masyadong (maimpluwensyang mga tao ang) nag-iingay?
Off topic, but I just read this news in the Inquirer:
I don’t know and cannot understand why Filipinos should be elated by this kind of news that encourages Filipinos to renounce their Filipino identity for another, and think that to be a citizen of another country will make them any better.
I feel like puking every time I hear these lawyers say that these kids being born out of wedlock and are legally under the parental authority of the Filipino mothers can have better chances to live like human beings even when they can be ostracized in Japan. I cannot understand why Filipinos would not feel insulted by such statements that it will be better for these kids to be Japanese than be Filipinos that they are bound by Philippine law in fact to be.
Re-Journalist
Is that the reason why some editors of Malaya like Banayo,
Joe Baylon, etc. are not writing anymore. They are in the hit lists of the shit woman of Malacanang? Was it mentioned by Malaya press that the U.S. is building Mindanao to deter from communist china. Maybe we should not be mad at the U.S. because in the long run it will benefit the Philippines. Just give it time that shit of Malacanang will be gone with the help of the U.S. She causes more trouble than the Al-Qaeda and the the rest of the terrorists put together. Right now she is the terrorist of the Philippines as far as I am concerned. Look at what China is doing in Burma that is plain terrorism. Harping on the people of Burma (Myanmar)that cannot defend themselves. Look what Russia is doing to Servia. That seems to be the ambition of that piece-of-shit in Malacanang. Oppress the Filipinos. She only help the people and her family that will go with her in stealing, lying and corruption.
This post is meant for the above thread, ‘The US role in pact with MILF’ or the other one above it but I could not access either one of them. So I will just post it here.
If you all read the Tribune yesterday’s issue written by analyst Lichauco, Pres. Clinton during his presidency wrote a letter to President Erap telling him to go easy on MILF. Now, the current midget pidal criminal is in collusion with US Prostitute Kristie Kenney to establish a large military base like Subic. The US military base in Mindanao is now within the grasp of US. Who can stop it?
If there will be an election in 2010, Erap will win hands down. Pidal gangsters knows that and even US knows that. If there will be an election in 2010 there are only 2 ways that this midget and US can stop Erap from winning the election. What are those? By not allowing an election to be held in 2010 through the declaration of martial law like Marcos or Assasination of President Joseph Estrada by CIA. Why? If Erap becomes President again then for sure he will annihilate MILF which he has proven in the past. US will not allow that to happen again because their plan for US base will diminish. The other reason as we all know is that this midget serpent wants to remain in her ill gotten power.
jug,
BHP is Australia’s biggest mining corp., probably the biggest in Asia, and not a few stories like your friend’s have emerged. It’s in the forefront in the mad scramble to supply China’s mineral needs. That practice is widespread, you will find big-name miners with nothing but a geologist, an errand-runner and a secretary holding office in a plush condo since all other services are outsourced.
It’s usually Al Ramos’ (of Alemar’s/National Bookstore fame)Philodrill or Diamond Drilling, et al. that does the actual drill tests.
Sometimes, mining firms enter into a contract with landowners in order to control access to an adjacent mine which they also operate, thus intrusions into their area is prevented. It may also be for merely reserving the site for future activities and the urgency is only dictated by logistics and/or contingent developments elsewhere. Some shrewd miners also negotiate for an exclusive after-production sharing/compensation without any real intention of actual mining preventing its competitor access to land. They accomplish this without spending anything by a contract similar to your friend’s.