Camille Diola - The Philippine Star
November 23, 2012 | 1:44pm
[View the story "Social web pleads for justice in Maguindanao" on Storify ]Social web pleads for justice in Maguindanao MANILA, Philippines - Media organizations and netizens led the social media campaign appealing to government to immediately resolve the case condemning the Ampatuan clan, believed to have orchestrated the massacre of 58 people in 2009. Storified by Philstar News · Thu, Nov 22 2012 21:45:47
MANILA, Philippines - Journalists and netizens led the social media campaign appealing to government to immediately resolve the case condemning the Ampatuan clan, believed to have orchestrated the massacre of 58 people in 2009.
The topic "Maguindanao" trended on Twitter Friday to mark the third anniversary of the brutal killings carried out by private militia of the Ampatuans, who ruled over Maguindanao for years.
On this day in 2009, the monstrosity that was the Maguindanao massacreProfessional Heckler
Journalists remembered their coverage in Maguindanao when news broke of the kidnapping and murder of 32 media practitioners and family members and supporters of now Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangundadatu, the political rival of Andal Ampatuan, Jr. who was also running for the seat.
up to this day, thinking of d 1st time i saw d massacre site in Ampatuan, Maguindanao brings me to tears.how cud we allow it to happen?Marlon Ramos
Weeks after the murders of victims in maguindanao, my team & I visited the crime scene. T'was heartbreaking to see relatives in so much painCesar Apolinario
Others denounced impunity and expressed disappointment in the execution of journalists, a move they see as a threat to media freedom.
NEVER AGAIN TO MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE! let's spread the truth! 3rd Media Freedom Day. @AtenistaKaBaiameddie
Speak up against impunity. Its the third anniversary of Maguindanao massacre.Cha Fajardo
While today may be a day for remembering journos killed in Maguindanao, let us also remember those who died along with them on that day.Kim Quilinguing
Netizens posted complaints that campaign promises of President Benigno Aquino III to bring "transformational leadership" leading to justice and order in Maguindanao.
The nation still mourns and cries justice for the victims of the Maguindanao massacre!I am Teddy
exactly three years after the Maguindanao massacre, more than two years after P-noy assumed office, still no glimpse of justice. tsk.Nestor Corrales, Jr.
Its been 3 years and the Maguindanao massacre victims have been waiting for the obvious. Still there's no conviction yet.patrick elopre
Many have also created and shared graphics and flaunted a black ribbon in commemoration of the heinous crimes and protest of a seeming lack of progress of the Aquino administration and the judiciary in the case.
3rd Year Maguindanao Massacre Commemoration http://pic.twitter.com/wLDvEnDBIvan Borgoños
Tatlong taon na ang nakalipas... saan ang hustisya sa Maguindanao massacre???? http://pic.twitter.com/aiysBfMQPaulo TooToot
