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 […]
STATEMENT: Below is the full text of the statement from three lawyers groups in Mindanao–Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM), and the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)–calling for a stop to vigilante killings there .
This was their response to the continuing vigilante killings in Southern Mindanao, particularly […]
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 […]