PHILIPPINES: New shooting of journalist

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:01:59 +1300
From: Asia-Pacific Network
To: Pacific Media Watch
Subject: [pacific_media_watch] 4569 PHILIPPINES: New shooting of journalist

Title -- 4569 PHILIPPINES: New shooting of journalist
Date -- 14 November 2004
Byline -- Media release
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP),
via inday@nujp.org 13/11/2004
Copyright - NUJP
Status -- Unabridged

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BROADCASTER SHOT IN AKLAN
www.nujp.org

MANILA (NUJP/Pacific Media Watch): Heherson Hinolan, station manager
of DYIN Bombo Radyo Kalibo was shot by an unidentified gunman last
night (August 13) in the capital of Aklan province, on Panay island
in the central part of the Philippines.

Hinolan, better known by his radio call name, Bombo Boy, and an anchor
of the popular radio morning program, Bombohanay bigtime, is in
critical condition at the provincial hospital in Kalibo.

Per interviews with his colleagues, Hinolan and a lone bodyguard had
dropped by a street fair along Desposorio Maagma St. after work.
Hinolan had left his companion briefly to urinate when he was shot.

The suspect remains unidentified and the motive could still not be
ascertained, but colleagues say Hinolan has received a number of death
threats "from all fronts" due to his hard-hitting commentaries.

In Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, reports said gunmen had also shot
at a vehicle owned by cable presenter Eric Tenerife. Investigation is
ongoing as to the cause of the incident.

Hinolan's shooting came two days after Mindanao photojournalist Gene
Boyd Lumawag was shot dead in Jolo. He was the ninth journalists to be
slain this year, the 58th since democracy was restored in 1986.

Military authorities have claimed the suspect was a still unidentified
hitman of the Abu Sayyaf. Journalists, however, have urged a deeper
investigation, fearing possibility of a scapegoat.

Aside from preparing to cover the eid fitr, a holy day for Muslims,
Lumawag and his companion, Mindanews editor Carolyn Arguillas, were
reportedly pursuing a story on corruption. Arguillas was inside their
lodgings when Lumawag was shot. She was unharmed.

Refer to inday espina-varona
inday@nujp.org
0916-751-25-22

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