A day after he pleaded not guilty to the murder of 57 people in Maguindanao in 2009, former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan formally asked the court to allow him to post bail.
It was unfortunate for organizers of the ninth Media Nation conference that the event was held on the third anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre. The anniversary drew scores of media practitioners to the streets of Mendiola rather than the cushy confines of Tagaytay City hotel where the summit was held. A statement was released by [...]
WHEN broadcaster James Licuanan was shot and seriously wounded a day after journalists nationwide commemorated the second anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre last year, Licuanan, or his assailants, wouldn’t have known that the case would validate what many in media have been saying all along—the culture of impunity lingers.
Andal Ampatuan Jr. and his father are asking a Quezon City court to reverse its previous order allowing the prosecution in the Maguindanao massacre trial to present an Army captain as one of its witnesses.
CEBU media joined their counterparts across the country in commemorating the second anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre with a mass held at the Sto. Rosario Church in P. Del Rosario Street, Cebu City yesterday afternoon. The Cebu Federation of Beat Journalists (CFBJ) offered a Mass for the repose of the souls of the 32 journalists [...]
Referring to the extrajudicial killings that were so much a part of the past Arroyo administration, and the killing of journalists that spiked on Nov. 23, 2009, President Benigno Aquino III declared in his 2010 State of the Nation Address (Sona) that his administration would “hold murderers accountable.”
