The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the assassination of a radio broadcaster in the Philippines, the third journalist killed in the Southeast Asian nation this year, calling it “a crime against society as a whole.”

Roger Mariano, of DZJC-Aksyon Radio was shot dead by unknown assailants in Laoag City, in the north of the Philippines on 31 July shortly after leaving the radio station. He is the 46th journalist to be assassinated since the restoration of democracy in 1986.

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