Philippines under spotlight on Nov. 23 ‘Day to End Impunity’
By Tonyo Cruz
On Nov. 23, the second anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, the world remembers and asks everyone to stand up to impunity.
Now dubbed as “Day to End Impunity”, Nov. 23 will be a day of citizens’ action amid inaction of governments, such as that of President Benigno Aquino III, to shatter the culture and climate of impunity that allows the masterminds and perpetrators of extrajudicial killings to go unchallenged.
Although we have been told that our country has been under a new management with President Aquino, the Philippines is still way up there, along with Iraq and Somalia, in the Impunity Index, a list of countries based on the number of unsolved murders of journalists.
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