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The official list of 30 media martyrs of Maguindanao Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

• Friday, 08 January 2010 12:30
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 January 2010 05:59 )
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There were 30 and not just 27 reporters and media workers who were killed in a manner brutal beyond description in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, last Monday, November 23.

However, another journalist, Jolito Evardo of UNTV General Santos City, has not been accounted for as of press time.

The 30 media workers comprise more than half of the 57 confirmed casualties of what is now known as the Maguindanao or Ampatuan Massacre, according to a list compiled and verified by the Humanitarian and Fact-Finding Mission of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), a network of independent media organizations, including the PCIJ.

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In 2009, Human Rights Took Serious Beating from Arroyo Regime

• Friday, 08 January 2010 12:03
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 January 2010 06:00 )
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Published on January 3, 2010

Human-rights violations in 2009 are “numerous and varied and no sector of society is exempted,” belying the Arroyo government’s claim that steps have been taken to improve the Philippine government’s human-rights record, according to Karapatan. And with Oplan Bantay Laya 2’s deadline in 2010 fast approaching, more abuses are certain to occur, it said.

By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com

MANILA — Human rights took a beating from the Arroyo regime in 2009, a period that saw the continuation of violations of basic rights that began to worsen ever since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power in 2001.

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CEGP holds prayer rally for Maguindanao massacre victims

• Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:58
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 January 2010 06:02 )
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College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP)- South Cotabato Chapter conducted a prayer rally for the Maguindanao massacre victims in cooperation with the OMNIANA- Official Student Publication of Notre Dame of Marbel University, last November 25 in front of NDMU.

Mr. Abraham Contayoso, OMNIANA adviser, Fr. Ariel Distura, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Seminary (OLPHS) Vocation Dean and other faculty of NDMU were present in the said activity to show their protest together with the students against the barbaric massacre in Maguindanao, wherein most of the victims were members of the media.

Arjay L. Balinbin, Editor-in-Chief of OMNIANA initiated the said

activity as a response to the proclamation of National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) of the National Day of Indignation (Nov. 25/ Wednesday) condemning Maguindanao Massacre, which also turned as a basis for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to tag Philippines as a “dangerous place for journalists”.

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