Philippines
Three Filipino journalists killedPosted Jun 21 2010
On Saturday, June 19, Nestor Bedolido, a reporter for Kastigador, a weekly Filipino newspaper was killed, making him the third Filipino journalist to be killed in five days.
Bedolido was buying cigarettes from a street vendor near a bar that he owned in Digos City, Davao del Sur, in the south of the Philippines. Two men on a motorcycle shot him at close range six times in the chest and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Marxlen Bedolido, his son, told reporters he believed local politicians were involved in the death. The paper Nestor Bedolido worked for is financed by a group of politicians, according to local reports. The police admit the death may have been connected to his work.
According to the IPI’s World Press Freedom Review, the Philippines was ranked the most deadly country for journalists in 2009. On June 16, Joselito Agustin, a reporter and anchorman for the Filipino radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo, was also shot and killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle. On June 14, Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM Radio was shot and killed while hosting a village singing competition.