Fifteen years after the Maguindanao massacre, journalists gather to honor the 58 victims, reflecting on the ongoing struggle for justice and press freedom in the Philippines amid a climate of impunity
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The impoverished village is now part of the BARMM province of Maguindanao del Sur, one of two new political territories carved out of the now-defunct Maguindanao in 2022. The journalists in the convoy covering the event became collateral damage in a blood-soaked quest by the Ampatuans to hold on to power. The massacre remains the deadliest single attack on journalists ever recorded.
Yap added that the brutality of the attack was unimaginable, and the journalists in the convoy that day “did not deserve to die” for doing their work.
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