Cotabato journalist needs help
Alberto Martinez, a broadcaster in Cotabato City who survived an assassination attempt in 2005, needs immediate help. Below are a few grafs from an Inquirer story about him:
At past 8 p.m. on April 10, 2005, a few minutes after he finished his program at the Manila Broadcasting Corporation’s “Radio Natin,” Alberto Martinez was attacked by two armed men in the town of Kabacan.
The suspects shot him twice in the back. One of the bullets went to his liver.
Almost two years later, Martinez, still with the bullet stuck in the liver, is now all skin and bones. From more than 60 kilograms, he weighed less than 40 kilograms when Inquirer visited him in December.
Every day, he burns with fever because of an infection in his urinary tract, apparently brought on by a catheter that has been attached to him since.
[tags]pinoypress, philippines, journalists, press freedom, cotabato, mindanao[/tags]
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