Slaughter of Innocents

AT GLANCE: From May 28 to June 3, a local newspaper, Sun.Star, reported eight deaths of persons, two of whom were minors, on pretexts of “vigilante killings” and “gang war” respectively from the cities of General Santos, Davao and Cagayan de Oro, all in Mindanao. The victims, who were murdered by shooting and stabbing, were [...]

AT GLANCE: Today, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in Hong Kong has issued an open letter to Commissioner Leila De Lima, the newly appointed head of the Commission on Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP), seeking for their adequate action into probing the various forms of arbitrary deprivation of lives in the country. Commissioner [...]