Radio reporter found dead in northern Philippines
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Manila- A beat reporter of a government-run radio station was found dead on Wednesday in a northern Philippine province, police said. Police Senior Superintendent Benjamin De La Cruz said Carmelo Palacios, 41, was found dead before dawn in a street in Guimba town in Nueva Ecija province, 120 kilometres north of Manila. De La Cruz said Palacios, a police reporter of the government-run DZRB radio station, suffered a broken jaw and what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his body. He said the victim could have been killed in another place late Tuesday and his body dumped in Guimba. Investigators were still trying to determine the motive behind the attack. Palacios was the third journalist to be killed in the country this year and the 51st since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power in January 2001, according to the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines. Last year, 11 journalists were killed.
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So much murder, because of one's vocation...
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Mark Crudgington ,
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:13:02 GMT
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It's a sad commentary on the human race in general, when one reads news items such as this.
It is a further sad commentary in particular, about ANY Government to have these types of murders occur without doing something to bring such murderers to justice and prosecute them to the fullest measure of the law and punish those who are responsible.
These such events are about people being murder-victims just because of their chosen career, ..just for reporting the news,....just for using their freedom of speech,....and just because some lowly ugly coward disagrees with their views and takes the law into their own hands, to silence a voice or written opinion, or facts.
This is the year 2007, but the human race world-wide in general, is still as barbaric and uncivilized as it was centuries ago. It has not progressed civily, culturaly.
The Philippine Government in particular, has not done anywhere near enough to enforce equal protection for its people, nor equal justice for its people. -- This is sad, because the Philippine people for the most part are kind, wonderful people that deserve a LOT better, from their
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