AT GLANCE: While the Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC) is submitting this written submission before the UN Human Rights Council on May 22, six other persons had fallen victims to the continuing murders on pretext of “vigilante killings“. Appeals for appropriate intervention from the concerned authorities have likewise been made on these six cases. Of [...]
In a span of one day, two persons have been killed, one of whom was a younger brother of a driver who was himself killed in April 27, in separate incidents in General Santos City, once again. One of the victim’s nephew, who had survived the attack, had come close eye contact with one of [...]
When this victim is killed, the police investigator was baffled why he should be killed. Preoccupied by his notion that only criminal suspects, for him usually had tattoo, had been target of murders in General Santos City, then who is this murdered victim? The police’ insinuation had been proven wrong. This person is no criminal [...]
 Not until today that Chief Supt. Felizardo Serapio, regional police director in Central Mindanao , had he been reported to have express alarm to the continuing “vigilante killings” in General Santos City. It reported that 26 people have already been summarily executed there, ten in March; ten in April and six on May, and counting… [...]
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 [...]
On May 21, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued a general appeal asking the concerned government agencies–particularly the police and local government–to take effective and adequate measures to prevent the slaughters of criminal suspects and robbery victims in General Santos City. Though these murders had been going on unabated, the gravity of these [...]
Robbery may be considered common crimes; however, when incidents related to this would result to a pattern of systematic murders to emerge, the authority has the obligations to take effective and adequate action to protect lives and properties. Also, in the Philippines, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has had clear mandate under section 24, of [...]
Human’s reluctance and inability to discern how tragic death and loss of lives of a particular social class of people results to impliedly tolerating or giving acquiescence to their deaths. Once the society compromises human lives to fight against crimes, deaths of dozens would consequently numbs them. This also hardly provoke, perhaps due to fear, [...]