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Ampatuan massacre: Five years since

By JHESSET THRINA ENANO AND LUIS HIDALGO Nov. 23, 2009 was a dark day for journalists in the Philippines, and across the world. In a town called Ampatuan in Maguindanao, south of the Philippines, 58 people were gunned down and massacred by political warlords. Thirty-two were media workers who were present for an election coverage.

By verafiles

Nov 24, 2014

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By JHESSET THRINA ENANO AND LUIS HIDALGO

Nov. 23, 2009 was a dark day for journalists in the Philippines, and across the world. In a town called Ampatuan in Maguindanao, south of the Philippines, 58 people were gunned down and massacred by political warlords. Thirty-two were media workers who were present for an election coverage.

Students and faculty members of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication on Friday afternoon commemorated the massacre in a protest march that slammed the slow wheels of justice.

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