A total of 49 journalists were killed in the Philippines since President Macapagal Arroyo took power from Joseph Estrada in 2001.

Last year alone, 12 Filipino journalists were killed, according to the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines.

Just last Monday, the editor of a weekly tabloid in southern Philippines was gunned down.  Hernani Pastolero, 64, editor of the Lightning Courier weekly in Cotabato City, was killed outside his house in Barangay Bulalo, Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan.

Ironically, Pastolero was killed while a United Nations (UN) delegation was in the country to investigate the wave of murders of journalists that began in 2001.

The PinoySpy Media Committee condemns these killings and demands on the Philippine government to bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

See: List of Journalists killed in the Philippines (PinoySpy Crime Watch)

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