Gunmen shoot dead Filipino radio host
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Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a radio broadcaster in the southern Philippines in the second such murder in a week, police said yesterday.
The killing of Michael Diaz Milo, host of a daily radio show and a program director of DXFM radio, further worsened the Philippines’ standing as one of the most dangerous places for journalists.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists ranks the Philippines as the third-worst in its “impunity index” of countries that fail to fight violence against the press.
Milo, 34, was riding his motorcycle in the coastal city of Tandag late Friday when men following him, also on a motorbike, shot him in the head, according to police.
Police did not immediately give a motive for the killing but the radio station’s operations chief King De La Rosa said that Milo had previously told him he had received death threats, although he did not say who sent them.
The victim had hosted a daily radio show on alternative medicine and local issues in Tandag, a small fishing and farming city on the troubled southern island of Mindanao.
Milo’s killing comes a week after another broadcaster, Joas Dignos, was also shot dead by motorbike-riding assassins in Mindanao. It is the latest in several unsolved murders of journalists in the Philippines.
President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman said that the police in the area had set up a special team to track down the killers.
“All of the government agencies are united in the prosecution, investigation and arrests (of the killers) in order to give justice to the slain members of media,” Herminio Coloma said.
Aquino, elected in 2010 on a reformist platform, said his government would stop such murders but local media groups say he is not doing enough.
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