NUJP decries slay of Tagum radioman

While there is no evidence of a nationally sanctioned campaign to silence journalists, unlike activists and other dissenters, the ranks of newsmen continue to be decimated with impunity owing to official inaction toward media murders, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said.

The union cited Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) report on the “Tagum Death Squad” allegedly set up by former city mayor Rey Uy, and decried that no mastermind in any of the 163 media killings since 1986 and the thousands of other extrajudicial executions has ever been arrested, prosecuted and convicted.