No one in our uncarting country ever said ‘Je suis Maguindanao’

The most horrific assault on journalists in contemporary times remains the Maguindanao massacre, despite the global outrage generated by the recent atrocity in Paris. More than 30 media workers on a routine coverage (the filing of a certificate of candidacy) were massacred by thugs along with a gubernatorial candidate’s representatives and next of kin. The murder of 30 journalists, done on the flimsiest of reason and in broad daylight perhaps to show the banality of evil, has not been done by mad men on any place in the planet in contemporary times.

Worse, the murderers were not done after indiscriminately shooting down the more than 50 people in that vehicle convoy.