COLUMNIST R. TIGLAO is right, as he said in his column yesterday, under President BS Aquino, the Philippines has become the most violent country in the world, next only to North Korea.

And, as today’s column of Yen Makabenta tells us in his piece today, “Of the five worst countries where journalists are murdered with impunity, only the Philippines, at fourth place, is not in a state of large-scale armed conflict. This was noted by the Committee to Protect Journalists in its latest Global Impunity Index.”

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