AT GLANCE: In span of three days, six persons have been killed, including a 16-year-old boy, in separate shooting incidents on pretense of “vigilante killings” in the cities of General Santos and Davao. One of the victims was reported to have been killed by mistake; but the rest were described by the police investigating these […]
AT GLANCE: From February 4 to May 17 of this year, another seven persons were reported to have been murdered, two other survives attempt on their lives, including a boy, in separate incidents in Davao City. Though the police concludes most the victims have had criminal records, are involved in sex trade, members of gangs; […]
AT GLANCE: In span of three days, another three persons were killed in Davao City, one of whom was reportedly a pimp. One of the victims, whose identity remains unknown, was stabbed dead as he walks in a place where market goers usually gather at dawn. As in previous cases, although the motive into their […]
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. […]
AT GLANCE: On May 22, Nerito Calimbo, whom the police described as “leader of a notorious Chigo Gangâ€, was shot dead in a crowded street shortly after his release from police detention in Davao City. His wife and brother-in-law, who had fetched him, were also killed when gunmen riding on motorcycle open fired at […]
REPORT REVIEW: “In the Shadows of Davao” is a report written and published in 2004 by Tambayan Center, Inc., a local child rights NGO based in Davao City, and journalist Ryan Anson. A chapter of this report are stories by three mothers and a wife whose sons and husband had been murdered by gunmen […]
On May 21 and 22, three men had been murdered in Davao and Tagum Cities, Mindanao. Two of the victims were shot dead inside and just outside their house by gunmen riding on motorcycles. The other one, whom the police claimed was killed on pretext of “gang war“, was shot in a crowded place.
In the mid 80s, a brutal civilian armed group, Alsa Masa (People is rising up), had arise in Davao City at the height of communist insurgency in the Philippines. They systematically murder persons on suspicions they are supposedly involved in communist struggle. However, 20 years on, Alsa Masa has long gone but its history of […]