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TIL: The single deadliest event for journalist occurred in the Philippines in 2009 – a candidate for governor’s caravan of 34 journalists and 58 others were murdered, six witnesses assassinated before testifying. ONLY TWO of the hundred+ alleged perpetrators have been charged with murder

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