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Former Journalist Looks Back at a Filipino Tragedy
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Former Journalist Looks Back at a Filipino Tragedy

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Dec 21, 2019
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When I heard the verdict handed down in the Maguindanao Massacre case today, I was ecstatic. As a former journalist, I’ve waited 10 long years for a court to convict the perpetrators of the country’s worst case of political violence, in which 58 people, 32 of them journalists, were killed execution-style.

The masterminds of this horrific crime – Andal Am…

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