(CMFR/IFEX) – The government’s national security adviser Norberto Gonzales vowed on 9 November 2005 to broaden the investigation of photojournalist Gene Boyd Lumawag’s killing, following reports that the gunman may have been an intelligence agent. Lumawag, a photojournalist for the online news service MindaNews, was shot along with his editor in war-torn Jolo, Sulu, after […]
(CMFR/IFEX) – The government’s national security adviser Norberto Gonzales vowed on 9 November 2005 to broaden the investigation of photojournalist Gene Boyd Lumawag’s killing, following reports that the gunman may have been an intelligence agent.
Lumawag, a photojournalist for the online news service MindaNews, was shot along with his editor in war-torn Jolo, Sulu, after taking a photograph of the sunset at the town’s pier on 12 November 2004. His editor, Carolyn Arguillas, survived the attack.
Arrest warrants were issued by the local regional court for in late 2004 for two suspected terrorist group members, brothers Omar and Iting Sailani.
Rene Lumawag, the victim’s father and a photo editor himself, said his son “was a victim of wrong information or wrong intelligence report.”
Lumawag was the fifth work-related journalist casualty last year. He was an award-winning photojournalist, who attended an international youth forum for budding photojournalists in 2004.
