The Wire

In the Philippines violence around elections is quite common but the massacre of at least 40 women children and media workers this week is a little out of the ordinary. The attack was not ideologically based but may be linked to a wider campaign of orchestrating social unrest to allow the army to gain more power in the leadup to the elections next year. Story features: Mike Dobbie, international journalism trainer for the MEAA, Peter Jennings, Executive Officer of APHEDA, the overseas arm of the union movement and Amber May whose father is in the area where the massacre took place and hasn’t yet contacted her.