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NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (NUJP)
Statement
April 19, 2007

Another dark period for Philippine media

This week marks another dark period for press freedom in the
Philippines, with the murder of a colleague, the attempted murder of
another and a libel case filed by a governor against yet another.

Carmelo Palacios, 41, field reporter of the government-run Radyo ng
Bayan, was found dead in Sta. Rosa town, Nueva Ecija, Wednesday
morning, his body battered and shot in the chin. He was the 51st
journalist to be killed under the Arroyo administration’ s
increasingly blood-drenched watch, and the third this year.

Director Geary Barias of Task Force Usig has said there is reason to
believe the murder of Palacios was an offshoot of his being a “hard-
hitting, no nonsense reporter” and “anti-crime crusader.”

A day after, Delfin Mallari Jr., correspondent of the Philippine
Daily Inquirer and the host of a local radio program and editor of
the local paper Ang Dyaryo Natin, was shot and wounded in an ambush
in Lucena City.

Colleague Johnny Glorioso of dzMM and Mallari’s co-host and fellow
editor, said they have all the reason to believe the attempt on
Mallari’s life was “politically motivated.”

In Cebu City, Leo Lastimosa, station manager of local ABS-CBN radio,
was slapped with a libel suit by Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia
because of his exposes on alleged scams committed during the
preparations for the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations
there.

And in Albay, dzRH reporter Jun Alegre was arrested yesterday and
jailed over a 10-year-old libel case.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns these
latest assaults on our colleagues and on press freedom as a whole.

Indeed, the assaults on journalists and not just press freedom but
freedom of expression and the people’s right to know as well, have
been coming more often and becoming more brazen.

In the case of media, while there remains no indication that this is
part of a broad, concerted effort, unlike the assaults on other
sectors, the fact nevertheless remains that the continued assaults on
our colleagues and on our freedom and liberties are abetted by a
climate of impunity that is the result of official inaction,
antipathy and, in many cases, even outright hostility.

This is borne out by last year’s attempts by government to clamp down
on the media during the ill-conceived state of national emergency,
the multiple libel cases filed against 46 journalists by no less than
the president’s husband, the sedition charges filed against the
Tribune and the comments from sundry government and security
officials, notably Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, that a number of
our slain colleagues may have deserved their fates — as if there
were any justification for murder.

Again, as we mourn our fallen, see to our wounded and give succor to
the embattled, we challenge President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to do
the one singular act that will prove that her administration is not
abetting this climate of impunity that is steadily and with gathering
speed and brazenness battering at our most basic rights and
liberties — issue a categorical order to put an end to the killings
and assaults, to get the perpetrators, and declare the
decriminalization of libel an urgent measure.

We urge our colleagues to remain steadfast and band together and call
on the people whom we serve to help send a strong signal to those who
would deprive them of their right to know that, no, we will not
surrender.

IGWA KITANG FLASH REPORT HALI KI BOMBO REY. REY COME IN.

Iyo, Bombo Crisel, manongod ini sa sarong dakulaon na garo kahon na yaon ngonian sa tahaw kan Plaza Quezon. Iyo kahon, bako ining ordinaryong kahon, ta dakulaon kasing langkaw ini kan PNB, haros nasakop na kaini si bilog na Plaza. Garo ngani hinalon na kaini si enterong stage, dai mo na mahihiling. Mayong nakakaaram kun siisay o kasuarin pa ini digdi. Basta an aram ko mayo pa ini kasubanggi. Nagimata an enterong Naga na yaon na ini ngonian lang na pagkaaga. Asul ini, garo salming. Mayo pa akong mahiling na opisyal kan ciudad digdi Bombo Crisel alagad dakul na ang mga tawong nakatiripon digdi. May liwanag akong nahihiling na garo hali sa laog kaini. Nagigiromdoman mo si Rubik’s cube, garo ini Rubik’s Cube, kundi asul lang gabos an lambang mga kuwadro kaini. kadakul an mga kuadro kaining mga salming. Hapoton ta ining sarong pulis na nag-uusyoso man digdi. Sir, Sir sa Bombo Radyo ini. Sir, Sir.

Ay iyo, mayo man kaming naririsang garo maraot na dara an kahon. alagad an hapot sain ini hali? Baka dara ini nin mga taga ibang planeta alagad An naririsa ta lang ta garo an lambang tawo na maghiling sa arin man sa salming, garo natatalaka. May nahihiling sindang kanya-kanya istorya, na garo manongod sa buhay ninda.

Ay totoo po iyan, Sir, ako nahiling ko an sakong pagkamundag mismo, napahibi ako ta nahiling ko an sakong ina na nagadan pakatapos akong mamundag. pero dai ko na hiniling si ibang mga eksena kan buhay ko ta natakot na ako. totoong totoo, basta
aram ko na an gigibohon ko habo kong mangyari idto sako pagabot kan aldaw.

Ako an nahiling ko lang an kinaagahan kan Pilipinas. Grabe pang kariribokan an satong aagihan. Dai ko lang maintindihan ta si sa huring parte ipinahiling sako an naputol na rosaryo, na nagturubragan si mga boletas. Dai ko maintindihan an kahulugan kaidto.

Ako man sir, an nahiling ko an dakul na mga tawo na nakasarakay sa lantsa asin may inagihan sindang garo an dating kampanaryo kan simbahan sa MIlaor, dikit na lang an mahihiling kaini si atop na lang asin si krus.

Halat, halat, saro saro lang, boot mong sabihon, sanop nin tubig an enterong Milaor?

Pati garo ngani Naga sir, garo eksena sa Waterworld, Sir.

Ako, nahiling ko an sarong matabaon asin halangkaw na lalaki, nagmamando kan paghakot kan mga orna ni balota, sibot sibot an mga tawo na pigsasaranglian an mga nakasurat sa papel. dangan, nahiling ko na lang an garo pigaaragawan na sadit na babaing may arong, pigdadaklag siya nin gapo, sa tinampo kadakul mga tangke.

Puede sir mangapodan?

Atyan na, atyan na lang po.

Kun puede po ta nahihiling ko kaya sa kahon an kadakul na mga tawo na nagtitipon, garo nagdadangog sa mga diskurso, dai garo nagdadalan, asin bigla na lang nawara kan magwarak an nakakasulang liwanag, hali sa, ay Diyos ko hali sa dakulaon na kahon na asul….