In December, a grenade launcher was used to attack the installations of DXMS radio in Cotabato City. According to the local press, the MILF was at the origin of the attack. A week before, two grenades were thrown in to one of the DXMS offices. Extensive material damage prevented publication of the newspaper and production of the TV programme for several weeks. The official report concluded with an accident but the leaders of this journalists' organisation affirm that this was arson.
Several witnesses accuse the security forces.