Our leaders must stop killers of journalists acting with impunity

A report by Index on Censorship to be published next week will catalogue attacks on reporters

Toto Mangudadatu hoped that inviting more than 30 journalists to watch him file his candidacy against one of the most powerful families in the Philippines would protect him. Instead, on their way to see him, they were all killed, along with his wife and other family members, in the single deadliest attack against journalists in recent history, nine years ago this month.

The Maguindanao massacre led to a UN day of action. So 2 November became the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists and, last Friday, a vigil was held to mark the brutal killing of the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident.

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