Bringing closure and
justice to families of the 58 Ampatuan Massacre victims will be an adequate
amount of relief not only to victim’s families but also to the existing
journalists whose livelihood is positioned at the tip of their pen.This may
even be no excuse why the government does little to protect its citizens than push
for a more demanding action to stop the killings of journalists.
President Aquino’s statement
and the police have claimed that there were doubtful cases of the victims being
“real journalists” and as to why they received a trail of threats and
intimidation before being killed. They go to length to discredit media killings
as a result of unethical practices or personal disputes. Such proclamation only
proves the government’s lack of political will to end the impunity in media
killings.
Ignoring the violence
against journalists will be a problem so serious for the government to being
accountable on human rights and the lack of good leadership. Incidents of media
killings have to be investigated fairly and thoroughly at the very least. And as
we started the ball rolling, let’s give what's due justice is to the families of
the 58 Ampatuan Massacre.
Justice is righteousness,
it is the rendering to all their due, whether to God or man. A nation's real
greatness consists not in its conquests, magnificence, military or artistic
skill, but in its observance of the requirements of justice and religion.