ampatuan massacre Archives

Misamis Occidental broadcaster gunned down while on air

Armed men gunned down a radio anchor on Sunday, November 5, while broadcasting live at his home studio in Calamba town, Misamis Occidental, in the southern Philippines. Read more

PH Impunity and Government’s Denial: Unnecessary response to the killing of journalists and other HRVs

Impunity persists because it is a culture rooted in conditions that have not been addressed. Impunity has revealed that the laws and the conduct of government are no longer... Read more

This Week in Media (November 22 to 26, 2021)

THE DUTERTE administration continues to be a source of deep shame among concerned Filipinos for its continued display of incompetence, the lack of coordination among key officials, and the... Read more

Unesco retains “unresolved” classification of Ampatuan massacre after appeal by groups, individuals

HUMAN RIGHTS advocates hailed the decision of Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes, promulgated on 19 December 2019 which found the primary accused in the massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao of 58 persons,... Read more

STATEMENT: Conviction of accused in the court is a good sign; but it hardly ends impunity

A JUST verdict after the long trial of the accused in the Ampatuan Massacre is a welcome outcome, but it hardly signals the end of the pattern of impunity... Read more

JUSTICE FOR 58: A SUMMARY OF THE AMPATUAN MASSACRE TRIAL

By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network ON DEC. 19, 2019, Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes, presiding judge of Branch 221 of... Read more

Justice Now! (UP CMC Official Statement)

This is the official statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, as approved by its College Executive Board (CEB). PRESS STATEMENT22 November 2019 Justice Now!... Read more

Ampatuan Wedding Furlough: Just Another Social Event?

SHAME ON media organizations that seem to have forgotten the wholesale murder of their own brothers and sisters in the journalism profession and failed to report how a... Read more

The Media and the Duterte Presidency: Impunity Acute and Benign, Fettered Flow of information

by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THE PRESS in the... Read more

PROLONGED AGONY: Looking Back at the 8 Years of the Ampatuan, Maguindanao Massacre

Eight years, zero conviction. This summarizes the 2017 update on the trial of the accused in the Ampatuan massacre of 2009. With more than 100 charged, even a... Read more