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Zamboanga journalists trained on EJK reporting PDF Print E-mail
by PHRRP   
Posted Tuesday, 14 April 2009

 
ImageSixteen journalists in Zamboanga City took the Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project’s training on reporting extrajudicial killings (EJK) on March 22.

  

The training, held at the SkyPark Hotel, facilitated discussion among journalists on the continuous discovery in the city of dead bodies appearing to be victims of summary executions. A specific case tackled was that of a 14-year-old child beggar, whose tortured body was found in a funeral parlor weeks after he and other child beggars were arrested by the city’s traffic enforcers. The Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project through journalist Julie Alipala later wrote a story on this.

 

Participating journalists acknowledged at the training that they had difficulty distinguishing cases on EJK, such as that of the 14-year-old child beggar.

 

ImageThey also acknowledged that they are limited only to government sources such as the Philippine National Police and the Commission on Human Rights but rarely tap non-government and peoples’ organizations for their human rights stories. Some said they found it difficult reaching out with families and relatives of victims because of the existing “culture of silence.”

 

At the end of the training, journalists discerned that the case of the 14-year-old boy could not just be dismissed as a simple crime because the suspects – city traffic enforcers– were considered authorities.

 

The training is 8th of the Project’s series of EJK reporting training series in cooperation with partner National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).

 

 

 
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