Though it took several months, but it nevertheless was never too late for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) of the Philippines to investigate and to take appropriate action into the continuing vigilante killings is Davao City.
In these reports, CHR chairperson Leila De Lima, act on appeals from the AHRC for her to investigate the […]
CASE DETAILS: Nine persons, one of whom a boy, have been killed, while another person has survived in attack in separate incidents in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Davao, General Santos, Tagum and a municipality in Davao del Sur. One of those dead though was a witness who killed himself due to fear […]
PROTECTION URGENTLY NEEDED: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has written to Pedro Acharon Jr., mayor of General Santos City; and to Commissioner Leila de Lima, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR), seeking for their adequate and prompt intervention to ensure witnesses to vigilante killings are given protection.
The AHRC renewed […]
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 […]
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. […]
PEOPLE’S FEEDBACK: Reading through comments of this YouTube entry regarding the continuing murders of persons, including minors, on pretense of “vigilante killings” would somehow give anyone an idea as to how, even those who lives or has relatives living in Davao City; those who have their relatives also killed; and locals gives tacit acquiescence […]
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 […]