A Filipino Journalist and a Hit List

Asia Sentinel ^ | 05/19/09 | John Berthelsen

[DFG]

Carlos Conde, a Manila-based freelance journalist who writes primarily for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and other publications (and infrequently for Asia Sentinel) discovered Monday to his shock that his name had appeared on an "order of battle" apparently prepared by the intelligence staff of the 10th Infantry Division in Southern Mindanao.

Conde, in a formal statement to the press, said he wasn't completely sure what that meant, but the implications are that the 100 names on the list are marked for assassination. One of the 100 was killed last year.

In March, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists charged that the murders of 24 Filipino journalists remain unsolved, one of the highest number of media killings in the world.

[Boogieman]

I propose a foriegn-exchange program to help these embattled Filipino journalists. Those targetted over there can come here and we’ll protect them, and we can send a few dozen of our own leftist smearmongers over to the Philippines to take their place :)

[Condor51]

... extrajudicial killings of political activists have been denounced ... as a government-sanctioned "dirty war" against left wing opponents. The "order of battle", except for Conde, names activists ... but they are nonetheless killed with impunity ... In this "order of battle," more than a hundred individuals – mostly leaders and members of progressive and leftist groups ... The army considers me an enemy of the state, as the document, which shows the alleged links of these individuals with the communist movement...

I read the entire article. There's an internal war in the Philippines against Commies. So what's the problem?

(Don't want to be killed, don't hang around with commies.)

[SeminoleSoldier]

To the Philippine Army - get some!

[VaBthang4]

Yawn...