Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Journalist freed from bandits


It has been 9 days since the seizure happened in Sulu. One of ABS-CBN’s journalists and one of my favorites Ces Drilon has been freed along with her tv crew and MSU professor Octavio Dinampo who served as their guide.

Drion said that she had no suspicion that she would be kidnapped despite the warnings and the danger she was getting in to.

I’m sure it was haunting for Ces and her crew knowing that they had a slim chance that they would make it alive by this terrifying experience. Ces said that she was slapped by the abductors due to the deadline that was given to the authorities regarding the 15 million ransom money that was drawing near. One of Ces crew was also about to be beheaded by the bandits.

I now that they’re just doing their job, being a journalist but of course anyone should know if that place is notorious and it has swarms of bandits living in the outskirts of the city, then they should not expect that they can just run around without getting hurt.

But in the end of it all, everybody was relieved by the outcome.

Well, as for me…“No news is worth dying for”.



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