Cotabato City

And I do think that these elections have helped with that.

At the top, you mentioned the spate of violence, the shootout that we saw in Cotabato City, which I have heard George Engelberg and others point out that was maybe a little, I don't know, warped the perception on the outside because where there were international election observers, they were almost entirely in Cotabato City.

So the places where, as you said, we actually would have expected violence, Maguindanao, Lana del Sur, it didn't happen.

And the one place where there were a bunch of foreigners there, You know, with cameras is the one place there was violence.

The Albay Press Club echoed demands for justice.

This follows the 14 July killing of a Cotabato City broadcast technician and the 19 April death of community journalist Nicolo Ledesma.

Reporters Without Borders highlights the severe risks for radio broadcasters, noting eighty-nine deaths since 1986.

Joe Torres of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security urged a thorough investigation.