AT GLANCE: From July 11 to 14, vigilante yet again murdered ten persons in separate incidents in three cities and in a municipality. These deaths took place, once again, in cities of Davao, General Santos and Cebu/Sugbu. One was reported in the municipality of Bansalan, Davao del Sur, a place close to Digos City, where […]
CASE BRIEFS: From July 7 to 9, six persons, one of whom a foreign national, were reported to have been murdered in separate incidents. Two crime suspects were murdered over revenge rendering courts useless; three others were killed by “vigilantes” and one over continuing unsolved robbery cases.
In Cases No. 2 and 5, these murders explain […]
MURDER OF CRIME SUSPECTS: In September 2007, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued a statement regarding the pattern of murders wherein the victims of extra-judicial executions, most of them are crime suspects, are killed with banner/placards hung on their necks, saying they are criminals, or had committed a crime in justifying their […]
CASE BRIEF: On July 2, two separate shooting incidents took place; one was done similar to vigilante style attacks in General Santos City while the other victim was shot dead by a village policeman as the former tries to attack his wife with a bladed weapon. These two incidents demonstrate the lack of effective […]
DEPRIVE ANY CHANCE TO REFORM: On June 30, three persons had been attacked on vigilante pretext; one of them was killed, in separate incidents in Cagayan de Oro City and Davao City. In the former, the victim had been announced as a member of a gang while the former had been attacked supposedly by Davao […]
STOPPING THE COUNT: As we have already mentioned in our previous posts, vigilante killings in Cebu and others places in the Visayas, have remained unabated. A local human rights group, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Visayas, at first consistently tallies the number of murders of this nature when it began sometime in […]
AT GLANCE: On June 21 and 22, another boy and a man were murdered in separate incidents in Davao City. The boy was reported to have been murdered by mistake as it is supposed to be his brother who was the target by vigilante group. His mother knew who could be responsible for the murder. […]