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 […]
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 […]
WHAT DO THEY SAY: In this post, we share the excerpts of selected articles and opinions by some bloggers; some are columns and news articles, they posted in their own web blogs regarding their comments on “vigilante killings” in the cities of Davao and Cebu. Should you have any comment on this particular issue, you […]
AT GLANCE: On June 13, three persons were attacked by four gunmen riding on two separate motorcycles in Cebu City. One of the victims was wounded, but two others were escaped unharmed. But contrary to previous incidents, these victims had no criminal records at all but nevertheless the manner their case was described, they must […]