The commemoration at the massacre site comes two years after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions prevented them from visiting the site in what is now the province of Maguindanao del Sur.
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Organized journalists and relatives of the victims of the single most deadly attack on media workers in history gathered at the site of the infamous Maguindanao Massacre on Sunday, November 20.
REMEMBERING. A Catholic priest, journalists, and members of the families of the victims of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre gather at the site in Ampatuan in Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday, November 20. – National Union of Journalists of the Philippines The NUJP counted 58 people – 32 of them media workers – who were brutally killed and buried in shallow graves by the private army of Maguindanao’s erstwhile political warlords on November 23, 2009.The 58th victim, photojournalist Reynaldo Momay, remains missing as of this posting, and the NUJP has been pushing that he be recognized as such by the courts.
Andal Jr., his brother Zaldy who was then the governor of the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao , and more than 40 others were convicted although some of the murder cases were on appeal. They also cleaned the surroundings of the memorial and removed the overgrown weeds for the first time since the start of the pandemic restrictions in 2020.
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