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Date: 11 December 2013
Source: ANC

A day after the celebration of International Human Rights Day, another journalist was killed in Davao del Norte.

Radyo Natin’s Rogelio Tata Butalid died after being shot by unidentified men in Tagum City around 9:00 a.m. Wednesday.

Butalid, also the former spokesperson of former city mayor Rey Uy, had just finished his radio program when armed men reportedly blocked his path and shot him 4 times.

Butalid is the third journalist killed in less than two weeks. 

Last week, Michael Diaz Milo and Joas Dignos were also shot dead in separate incidents in Surigao and Bukidnon, respectively.

If proven work-related, the killing of Milo last Sunday and Butalid on Wednesday will make them the 21st and 22nd media workers killed in the line of duty under the Aquino Administration. 

Meanwhile, Iloilo’s Aksyon Radyo reporter Jey Villalva was rushed to a hospital after being shot by unidentified men.

Villalva’s family is convinced the attack is connected to recent commentaries aired by Villalva’s station.

New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked the Philippines as the third worst in its impunity index of countries that fail to fight violence against the press. In a press briefing last month, Communications Sec. Sonny Coloma, “maybe it’s justified to say that there is no more impunity.”