Gunmen kills 2 Journalist in Kidapawan

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Two gunmen shot dead a husband-and-wife team of radio political commentators in Kidapawan City, Cotabato, a police official said Tuesday.

George Vigo and his wife, Mazel, were on their way home late on Monday when the gunmen on a motorcycle shot them, said Kidapawan police chief Danny Reyes.
"They died on the way to the hospital from several bullet wounds in the head and body," Reyes told reporters, adding the local police were trying to determine if the murders were related to their work at a local radio station.

"It's too difficult to speculate on who was behind the attack and the motive for the murder," Reyes said, as he sought technical help from other police units to aid in drawing ketches of the suspects.

Last week, Vigo, who also contributed to the Bangkok-based Union of Catholic Asian News, was telling friends he got death threats from an unspecified group.

His wife, who hosted a separate radio programme with the same local radio station, was an organizer of the leftist movement BAYAN in North Cotabato province.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said the Vigos were the 43rd and the 44th mediamen to be murdered since Mrs. Arroyo became president in 2001.

Despite government promises to stop the murders and cash rewards, only three of 81 media murders have been solved by the police since democracy was restored in 1986 by a "people power" revolt that deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Most of the killings have been related to investigations of corruption, gambling, narcotics and other illegal activities. There have also been cases of reporters murdered on suspicion they were taking bribes.

The murder took place as the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists continued to place the Philippines as the most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist in terms of the number of mediamen killed.

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[lalakingbisdak]

Oh my. Sad news again.

[confused_person]

sad news indeed..

it's unfair lang nga all of us blame the government for it..

can't we also blame leftist groups??

or any hidden agenda within their own work..

or naa lang jud nagpapatay aning mga journalists aron makagubot ta and we will blame it to the government..

try watching politial conspiracy movies and you will understand..

daghan kontra ang admin coz she is a woman.. and men hate that fact..

wa pud ta kabaw naay mga tao sa admin nga nakig konsabo sa oppose to pan this kind of conspiracy..

ang ako lang jud nabantayan nato mga pinoy, isig labay lang ta sa ato hugaw..blaming other people kung naay bulilyaso sa pang gobyerno.. tabang kuno..

ayaw lang sige yawyaw dinha..

langas na kaayo ang pilipinas!!!

[7DMM]

mga block timer man sad ang kasgarang target.that is something na wala nila ma notice.

[baron]

The police authorities should quickly investigate on the matter. As much as the group behind these killings really wanted to relate the Arroyo administration to these killings, even if the president herself had announced her concern over the issue. She even called for the AFP to quickly resolve this matter in order to prevent anymore killings. Indeed, the group behind this wanted to project a bad image for the president for these continuous killings.

Hopefully the authorities will exert more effort to resolve the recent killings.