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CMFR statement on the killings in Maguindanao
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Publisher:  Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility
Date Written:  25/11/2009
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article

The brutality and the sheer senselessness of the attack in Maguindanao represent a new low, even in the country's shameful record of violence. It calls for collective outrage and condemnation and the strongest demand for the immediate apprehension.

Abstract:  (CMFR/IFEX) - Politics is writ large in the November 23 abduction and killing of over 40 people, at least 12 of them journalists. The brutality and the sheer senselessness of the attack in Maguindanao represent a new low, even in the country's shameful record of violence. It calls for collective outrage and condemnation and the strongest demand for the immediate apprehension, trial and punishment of those responsible.

The violent attack struck at the heart of the country's democratic forces -...
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