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Giving Voice to the Victims - A Project Roundtable, Zamboanga, Mindanao, April 28 PDF Print E-mail
Posted Thursday, 08 May 2008

 

Survivors from the Feb. 4 attack on Maimbung, Sulu, in Southern Philippines, which left eight civilians including a four-year-old girl dead, spoke at the The Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project roundtable on “Media, Civil Society, Human Rights & Peace” held in Zamboanga, Mindanao on April 28.

 

Image The roundtable organized by project partners in association with the Western Mindanao State University and the Mindanao People's Caucus called for the media to devote more space and time to the victim of human rights abuses wherever they occur. Participants including Zamboanga Archbishop Romulo Valles heard that being first with the 'news' did not guarantee accuracy and that the media needed to cover incidents like Maimbung in far greater detail in an effort to uncover the truth.

The Commission on Human Rights, Peace Advocates Zamboanga, Mindanews and IWPR were among representatives from more than a dozen local NGOs and media groups which agreed to set up 'Task Force Maimbung,' - a collaborative movement designed to collect and disseminate regular news of developments surrounding the investigation of the Feb. 4 incident. The Armed Forces of the Philippines maintains the military attack on Maimbung was a ‘legitimate encounter’ between special forces and the Abu Sayyaf.

 

 

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