The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) on Wednesday said that the government’s failure to address the culture of impunity is behind the spate of media killings.

Dante Jimenez, founding chair of the VACC, lamented that the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) seems to have forgotten that crime prevention is also part of its mandate, thus more journalists are being killed.

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