Last week, two Philippine radio broadcasters were killed, gunned down in broad daylight on busy city streets. The murders, only four days apart, highlighted the continuing vulnerability of journalists here and the government's inability to protect them.
The broadcasters were shot in separate, unrelated incidents.
But the killings were eerily similar to other journalist slayings here in the
past years: They were carried out by armed assassins riding tandem on
motorcycles. Last week's casualties brought to 34 the number of journalists
murdered in the
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