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 […]
AT GLANCE: This victim, who had been previously detained for theft at the city jail, was shot on the head in front of his sister. A week before he was murdered, as friend of him, was also murdered in the same village where they lived. This victim sister had already forewarned him to take precautions […]
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 the […]
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.
 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…
While […]
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 […]
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, a […]