13 Filipino journalists were killed in a single day, how safe are you in your own country?

13 Filipino journalists were brutally murdered Monday morning while covering an election related story in the southern Philippine town of Ampatuan Maguindanao. 50 other local residents were also killed and buried on a mass grave with them. To date, authorities are still conducting retrieval operation to locate other missing.

The incident now tags as “Maguindanao Massacre” is said to be the deadliest single attack on the press that was documented anywhere in the world. If not very ironic, Philippines is the first democracy in Asia, and also one of the first to practice press freedom. However, over the years journalist killings have escalated, even putting Philippines once, next to Iraq, as the most dangerous place for press in the world.

I hope everyone at work today is safe out there. While we all need to meet our deadlines, I encourage you to impart with us your own experience and struggle in your own country, so that the rest of us who are still alive, never threatened, will continue to do what we live and work for - truth.