With great anticipation, we have been eagerly waiting for the upcoming benefit concert entitled ProTest Broadcast 3 (May 17, 2010, Araneta Coliseum). It is the third installation of concert series benefiting different recipients (mostly the Family and relatives of slained journalists in particular). The focus of the ProTest Broadcast 3 rock concert will be the gruesome murder of the journalists in the Maguindanao massacre last November 23. UNTV correspondents were included in over 50 victims which is considered to be the most brutal massacre occurred in an election related violence in the Philippines.
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) also released the following statement in their website:
“Under the current government, the Philippines has become the most dangerous place in the world for media workers. At least 74 journalists have been killed during its eight-year tenure, yet the (Arroyo) government has not acted to end the culture of impunity. At last count, only four convictions had been secured,...”
Certainly, the Maguindanao massacre have again placed the Philippines in a bad light of violence among to its journalists, men and women. The murderers have tried to bury the evidence of their crimes but we should not let them bury their atrocity from our memory. The proceeds of the Protest Broadcast 3 concert will go to the family and relatives of the of the murdered journalists and civilians. Please show your support and be there.
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