In June 11, we reported the murder of two crime suspects supposedly by a vigilante group, Cotabato Death Squad (CDS). Although the existence of this group has remained in question, there were allegations the security forces, in some way, could have had involved—directly or otherwise.
These allegations may have been affirmed by the shooting to death […]
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 […]
NEWS BRIEF: On May 16, a local bank in Cabuyao, Laguna had been robbed and killed, in a execution style, ten of its employees. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales had then openly said that if only he could, he would issue shoot-to-kill order to robbers involved. Days after his comments were made, policemen had killed on […]
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 […]