Philippine Collation of Corruption & Extra Judicial Killing

Extra Judicial Killing 835th on 20th Feb 2007

2007-02-21T07:36:00.000+08:00

Journalist killed. Hernani Pastolero Jr., editor of a Cotobato City newspaper, was gunned down in front of his house in Shariff Kabunsuan town, Sultan Kudarat province. 20 February 2007.
Pastolero is the 60th journalist killed under GMA?s administration. He is the 834th victim of extra-judicial killings under GMA. The 835th is Federico Estanes Jr. ABC president of Pilar, Sorsogon. When will all these killings stop?
Meanwhile, believe it or not, two prisoners in the Caloocan City Jail are shot dead by a fellow prisoner. Inmate Bonifacio Bate shot dead Raymund Custodio and Rizalino Pangilinan inside the prison yard with a 22 cal. revolver. Prisoners have guns? No wonder you have constant jailbreaks.
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Andres Acosta radio reporter dzIC killed (stabbed)

2006-12-22T06:49:00.000+08:00

12/22/2006
Another journalist was slain in the town of Batac in Ilocos Norte, north of Manila, on Wednesday night when he was stabbed by an unidentified assailant, police reported yesterday.
Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, Ilocos regional police director, said he has directed Ilocos provincial director Senior Supt. Roman Felix and PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) regional head Senior Supt. Melvin Bolabota to look into the killing of radio reporter Andres Acosta. Bataoil added Acosta, who had worked
for the local radio station dzIC, was assaulted around 10 p.m. Wednesday, after which the suspect fled. The local police hinted that the killing may be work-related, saying Acosta in the past testified in a court case and has since been a marked man. He had been receiving death threats, Chief Supt. Bienvenido Rayco said without identifying any suspects. Rayco added Acosta was found dead on the national highway. He said Acosta bled to death as he apparently was trying to get himself to the hospital. But the government-run Philippine News Agency also yesterday said the victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he died, making him the 27th Filipino journalist to be slain since January 2001, based on figures of the PNP Task Force Usig.
Of the 26 previous killings, task force chief and PNP deputy chief for operations Deputy Director General Avelino Razon said, 21 have been solved, meaning cases have been filed in the courts, while the rest are still under investigation. I ordered the provincial (police director) and the regional CIDG chief to proceed to Batac and supervise the ongoing investigation with instructions to immediately identify the suspect and the motive, Bataoil said.
Acosta is the fifth journalist to be killed in the Philippines this year, after seven were murdered in 2005.
The spate of unsolved killings targeting members of the press has made the Philippines the second most dangerous place for journalists next to Iraq, press watchdog groups say. Gina Peralta-Elorde, PNA and AFP
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RP Killings more complex - EU

2006-12-05T18:04:00.000+08:00

RP killings ‘more complex’ than extra judicial tag -- EU 12/05/2006
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=36493

It appears that the EU Commission needs to properly investigate the case studies on these murder cases. The seemingly neverending extra-judicial killings, agents of the government had perpertrated with impunity. The murders are political through & through as any professional murder investigator would tell you. Don't treat the Filipino citizen as stupid, because stupid they are not!

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anna de brux

2006-12-02T21:51:00.000+08:00

HILLBLOGGER & Hillblogger Jr says on 1st December 2006

I also would like to re-post here comments I made in Quezon's blog following a co-commenter's post: http://www.quezon.ph/?=1099
Aside from the killings, we have to remember the abductions. In Iraq, it is the insurgents that are abducting innocents. Over here, it is the military, our sworn protectors, that have abducted the
UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno. cvj said this on November 23rd, 2006 at 2:00 am Indeed, cvj. One of those young students is or was a would be mother. So, where are Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno? What happened to them? where are they?

Why can’t Gloria demand that the military shed light into their disappearance? Is their disappearance a result of an “ongoing warfare” too? Then, Gloria must face the music and tell the world that she has declared war on her own people!
Their names happen to be on the list that Gloria received from the Amnesty International delegates she invited to meet with her in London. She gave her “word of honor” that these abductions and politically motivated killings would be solved. Nobody told her to make the promise that she would use the full powers of her office to solve these killings (and abductions) - but she did it.
Is this another “parole en l’air”? What happened to them? where are they? Why can’t Gloria demand that the military shed light into their disappearance? Gloria by having appropriated chief executive powers for herself as well as the role of commander in chief of the armies and the police, could easily COMMAND the military and the police to release the young women or to send their bodies back to their families if they are dead. If the chief of staff or a major service commander could easily demand of a subaltern “TO PRODUCE” (a tradition in the military) anything and everything, financial and otherwise, why can’t one who calls herself commander in chief do the same to her chief of staff, armed forces?
anna de brux said this on November 23rd, 2006 at 3:09 am

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2006-11-29T08:10:00.000+08:00

A LEADER of a militant farmers’ group and his wife were killed with .45 caliber pistols by two unidentified men fled opn foot toward Barangay Fatima on 27th Nov 2006 General Santos.
Jimmy D. Sanchez, 46, General Santos; president of Mindanao Unified Farmers Association Inc., and his wife
Estrelita Gocela Sanchez, 46, were the 116th and 117th victims of political killings under the Arroyo administration based on PNP records.
Chief Supt. German Doria, Police Regional Office 12 director, said bystander Romeo Valdeviezo of Barangay Apopong, was hit in the right forearm in the attack in Block 1, Purok Maliwanag, Barangay Calumpang around 7:30 p.m.
The human rights group Karapatan and militant groups claim at least 791 had been victims of extra-judicial killings since President Arroyo came to power in 2001.

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2006-11-28T18:51:00.000+08:00

Marlene Garcia-Esperat a gunman walked into her house in the city of Tacurong, shot her in front of her family, died instantly from the single bullet wound to her head. The gunman and his accomplice escaped on a motorcycle. An anti-graft columnist for the newspaper the Midland Review in the southern island of Mindanao, Garcia-Esperat, 45, was under police protection as a result of death threats. Local news reports said that on the day of the shooting, she let her two guards leave early for the Easter holiday. Her husband George her murder was connected to a corruption story she wrote, accusing a police officer of illegal logging activity. Tacurong Police Chief Raul Supiter said that no motive had been ruled out, according to the Philippines-based MindaNews news service.On April 11, police announced the arrest of four suspects, including an army sergeant. The four were said to confess their involvement in May, according to local reports. Newspapers have reported several possible leads as to the mastermind; those reports included allegations that two officials from the Mindanao Department of Agriculture, Osmena Montaner and Estrella Sabay, plotted Garcia-Esperat's murder. The officials denied the accusations, but one of the defendants, Randy Barua, a former bodyguard for Sabay, and told police that he hired the gunmen at the behest of Montaner and Sabay, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. Murder charges were brought against the two officials, but a judge dismissed them on August 31 because of what he termed insufficient and conflicting evidence. The Esperat family lawyer, Nena Santos, told the Manila Standard that the dismissal was "highly questionable and suspicious," and that it was a "miscarriage of justice." Santos said the judge made the decision the day before being transferred to another court, and the court clerk did not announce the ruling until September 20.Press freedom groups protested the dismissal of charges against the accused masterminds. The four initial defendants also complained to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Gerry Cabayag, identified as the gunman, said he was afraid of retribution from the two agriculture officials, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.

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2006-11-28T18:31:00.000+08:00

Klein Cantoneros DXAA commentator 4th May 2005 met by a hail of gunfire from two men on board a motorcycle. Police later said he had been hit seven times.

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2006-11-28T17:37:00.000+08:00

ANOTHER leader of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) was killed yesterday morning in Cagayan, bringing to 57 the number of KMP militants killed since President Arroyo came to power. The total of extra judicial murders are now 791 since 2001 as of 11/27/2006
Anthony Licyayo, chairman of Alyansa Dagiti Manalon ti Cagayan (Kagimungan), shot dead at 25th Nov 2006 8:30 a.m. in Cabiraoan in Gonzaga, Cagayan. 2nd victim of suspected political killings this month in the province.
Joey Javier, another Kagimungan leader, was killed 11th Nov. 2006
Javier; Domingo Marbella whose body found on Nov. 20 2006
Andrew Iñosa; Alaska workers’ union president 21st Nov 2006
Roderick Aspili; United Workers of Surigao del Norte leader also murdered Nov. 21st 2006; and
Anthony Licyayo suffered a single gunshot to the back of his head; the 57th KMP leader murder; the 791st militant murdered since 2001 Licyayo was with his one-year-old daughter Jansen when he was ambushed by un-identified lone assailant wearing a white shirt. Local police did not responded to the incident the victim’s body was still at the crime scene as of 3 p.m. Prior to the killing, the military "had been looking for" Licyayo along with other farmer leaders Pasciani Payay, Albert Himmiwat, Roque France, and Vilma Mangili.

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2006-11-28T09:45:00.000+08:00

Olimpio Jalapit Jr., DXPR Radio, November 17, 2000, Pagadian City
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Roland Ureta, DYKR Radio, January 3, 2001, Aklan Province
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Candelario Cayona, DXLL Radio , May 30, 2001, Zamboanga City
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Edgar Damalerio, Zamboanga Scribe and DXKP Radio, May 13, 2002, Pagadian City
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Noel Villarante, DZJV Radio and Laguna Score, August 19, 2003, Santa Cruz, Laguna Province
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Rico Ramirez, DXSF Radio, August 20, 2003, Agusan del Sur
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Sonny Alcantara, "Quo Vadis San Pablo" and Kokus, August 22, 2002, San Pablo
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Apolinario Pobeda, DWTI-AM Radio, May 17, 2003, Lucena City, Quezon
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Bonifacio Gregorio, Dyaryo Banat, July 8, 2003, La Paz, Tarlac
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Jun Pala, DXGO Radio, September 6, 2003, Davao City

Rowell Endrinal, DZRC, February 11, 2004, Legazpi City
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Elpidio Binoya, Radyo Natin, June 17, 2004, General Santos
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Roger Mariano, Radyo Natin-Aksyon Radyo, July 31, 2004, Laoag City
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Arnnel Manalo, Bulgar and DZRH Radio, August 5, 2004, Bauan
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Romy Binungcal, Remate and Bulgar, September 29, 2004, Bataan Province
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Eldy Sablas, DXJR-FM Radio, October 19, 2004, Tandag
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Gene Boyd Lumawag, MindaNews, November 12, 2004, Jolo
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Herson Hinolan, Bombo Radyo, November 13, 2004, Kalibo

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2006-11-27T19:38:00.000+08:00

Audie Lucero, aged 19 years old, killed by three gunshot wounds in a rice field in Barangay Capitangan, Abucay, Bataan, Luzon on 13 February, 2006. Autopsy report said he was killed by three gunshot wounds to his back, knee and left hand, and his body showed signs of ill-treatment.
He was an active member of the local youth chapter of Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KPD - Movement for National Democracy) in Samal, Bataan. The previous year, in February 2005, he participated in a meeting with local officials and military and police commanders in Samal in which representatives of various sectoral groups voiced their opposition to plans to station a detachment of soldiers from the 24th Infantry Battalion in the area. He had been particularly vocal in this meeting.
On 12 February 2006, Audie and two companions brought a wounded friend to the hospital in Balanga City. As Audie and one other companion waited outside the hospital at around 5.00 pm for relatives of the patient to arrive, a police patrol encountered them and began to ask them about the patient. It is reported that the police suspected that the patient was an insurgent, who may have been wounded in a clash with the military. At around 7.00 pm Audie was left alone with the police officers, believed to be from the Balanga and Lubao police stations, after his companion was asked by a nurse to collect blood supplies for the patient.
The patient’s wife arrived at the hospital at around 8.00 pm. She and other witnesses described seeing a military truck and at least ten soldiers at the hospital, believed to be from the 24th Infantry Brigade. One soldier questioned the wife about her husband and asked, after pointing him out, whether she know Audie. The wife described Audie, accompanied by soldiers, as looking frightened and apparently crying. She told the soldier that she knew nothing about him, beyond that he had helped her husband to come to the hospital. The wife reported that police and soldiers were no longer in the hospital when she left to collect blood supplies at around 11.00 pm.
Audie Lucero was found dead the next day in a field about six kilometres from the hospital. According to local human rights groups, no information about the progress of police investigations has been made public and the case remains unresolved.
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2006-11-27T18:41:00.000+08:00

Romeo "Romy" Sanchez, aged 39 years, married with five children, was attacked and killed at around 5:00 in the afternoon on 9 March 2005 in the centre of Baguio City, Luzon. He had been walking down one of the city’s main streets with two companions and stopped at the public market to look at second-hand clothes when he was shot in the head at close range. His companions, on hearing a bang, looked round to see Romy Sanchez slumped on the ground. They stayed at the scene in a state of shock until the police arrived.
Romy Sanchez, Ilocos regional coordinator of Bayan Muna and regional secretary-general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN – New Patriotic Alliance), was a well-known local radio presenter and commentator and a community activist working on behalf on peasant and fisher folk in the Ilocos region. In 2000 he had been detained in Rizal province and reportedly subjected to torture by military intelligence officers who accused of involvement in the killing of a former senior CPP-NPA leader Conrado Balweg in 1999.(140)
Reports collated by the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance describe how two police officers, who were on foot patrol, arrived at the crime scene after only five minutes. A subsequent police scene-of-crime operation was able to recover one fired cartridge for a .380 calibre firearm on the floor on a nearby pawnshop. An autopsy report stated that the victim was shot with a .380 calibre handgun at close range below his left ear.
Romy Sanchez’ wife described her husband had received threatening text messages prior to his death including one warning that he should "prepare to be the next to die". He reportedly told colleagues that he had be under military surveillance on numerous occasions since his detention in 2000 and that soldiers had threatened to harm him if he did not stop his leftist activities.

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2006-11-27T17:48:00.000+08:00

Jose "Pepe" Manegded, aged 37 years and married with two daughters, was killed at around 10:00 in the evening on 28 November, 2005. He was found dead near a waiting shed along the national highway at Barangay Apatot, San Esteban, Ilocos Sur, Luzon, where he had been preparing to catch a bus to Manila to meet his wife on her return from Hong Kong.
About 30 minutes earlier he taken a tricycle from a nearby resort hotel where he had participated as a speaker and trainer at a paralegal training seminar organized by the Ilocos Human Rights Alliance and Karapatan. As he waited near the highway for a bus, a van reportedly approached and an unidentified man alighted. After speaking on his cell phone, the man reportedly drew a pistol and, when Pepe Manegded began to flee, chased him and opened fire.
The tricycle driver and sole known witness after seeing the man chase Pepe and, on hearing the shots, returned in fear to the resort to seek assistance to call the police. The autopsy report stated that Pepe Manegded was shot with a .45 semi-automatic pistol and suffered over 20 gunshot wounds.
A church worker and community activist, Pepe Manegded was a coordinator of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (Cordillera and Ilocos), a former coordinator of the Regional Ecumenical Council in the Cordilleras and an editorial staff member of ‘Writing on The Wall’- the official publication of the Northern Luzon Forum for Church and Society. Earlier in 2005, Pepe Manegded had also agreed to take over the duties of Bayan Muna coordinator in the Ilocos region following the killing by unidentified armed men of former Bayan Muna coordinator, Romeo "Romy" Sanchez, in March
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2006-11-27T16:50:00.000+08:00

Eden Marcellana, aged 31 years old and the mother of two children, and
Eddie Gumanoy, aged 37 years old, were abducted 21st April 2003 by unidentified armed men in the evening in Barangay Maibon, Naujan, Mindoro Oriental. travelling in a van with nine fellow members of a Karapatan human rights "quick-reaction" fact-finding team to investigate reports of a pattern of political killings and abductions in the province when about twenty armed men most wearing "bonnet" face masks, wearing combat fatigue jackets and ammunition pouches, blocked the road with their jeepney.
At least five of the masked assailants took over the van drove it to a nearby village followed by the jeepney carrying the other gunmen. The assailants then man-handled, struck and verbally abused the human rights workers demanding that Eden Marcellana identify herself. Eden Marcellana, Eddie Gumanoy and three other members of the team were then taken away on the jeepney.
All the possessions of the fact-finding team, including documents and photographs collected on their mission, were taken. The following day the bodies of Eden and Eddie were found in a bamboo grove near a highway. The three other abductees had been released in separate isolated locations.
Post-mortem examinations by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights found that they were "hog-tied" (hands and feet tied together) and bore signs of torture inflicted before they were killed. Eddie Gumanoy suffered gunshot wounds to his face and chest and Eden Marcellana had two stab marks in the face and upper back. Other sources reported that Eden Marcellana’s body was severely beaten, particularly on the face and neck.
Eden Marcellana was the Secretary General of Karapatan-Southern Tagalog region and Eddie Gumanoy was the Chairperson of Kasama-TK, a local peasants organization. In the months prior to the abduction Eden Marcellana had publicly expressed concern about the at least 27 reported political killings, abductions and harassment of leftists and alleged "communist sympathizers" in Mindoro Oriental allegedly carried out by a "vigilante" group linked to members of the 204th Infantry Brigade, which was under the command of Colonel Jovito Palparan. A criminal complaint was filed against Colonel Palparan in relation to one case, and it was reported that he had subsequently labelled Eden Marcellana as a "terrorist". In the days before their abduction, the fact-finding team reported that they were under military surveillance and when outside the 204th Brigade headquarters had reportedly been told to enter and were photographed against their will.
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2006-11-27T10:22:00.000+08:00

Rev. Father William Tadena, aged 37 years, was killed shortly after 8:00 in the morning on 13 March 2005. A parish priest of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) in La Paz, Tarlac, Luzon, he was attacked when travelling in his jeep with three colleagues along the provincial highway from Barangay Guevarra towards La Paz to celebrate his second mass of the day. Father Tadena was Chairman of the Human Rights and Social Concerns Committee of the IFI Diocese of Tarlac, a member the local chapters of the Promotion of Church People’s Response and Karapatan.

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2006-11-27T09:30:00.000+08:00

Alvin S. Valdez (m), aged 22 was reportedly arrested by men believed to be police officers on 16 July. Local police have denied knowledge of his arrest or whereabouts, and there are unconfirmed reports that he may have been killed.
He was sleeping at his girlfriend’s family home in Kidapawan City, on Mindanao, when armed men wearing balaclavas kicked open the door at 1.45am. Eyewitnesses have said in sworn affidavits that one of the men was not wearing a balaclava, and they recognised him as the Chief of Police of Kidapawan. They say he ordered the other men to search the house for a gun, while the family were held at gunpoint.
They did not find a gun, but arrested Alvin Valdez and took him away. The following morning the family searched for Alvin Valdez in local jails and police stations, without success.
They then filed a habeas corpus petition, asking the court to order the police to produce Valdez in court and establish the lawfulness of his detention, but during the hearing the Chief of Police denied ordering his men to arrest Valdez, or being present when he was taken away
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2006-11-25T19:45:00.000+08:00

Pagadian City where journalists are caught in the crossfire.
Pagadian City is the most dangerous place in the Philippines for journalists — four have been murdered there since 2000, making it the murder capital of the country as far as journalists are concerned.
Journalist Hernan de la Cruz. says it is no longer safe to walk the streets of Pagadian unarmed. He owns several firearms. Other journalists here have similarly armed themselves, after receiving threats by phone or text.

Almost no one here, however, gets caught for such crimes because, many believe, some policemen and local politicians are themselves behind these. The police here have been able to solve only three percent of the crimes committed, a figure that excludes the murder of 13 members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) since 2003. Witnesses are either afraid to talk or just don't care."
Edgar Amoro, a schoolteacher, a witness to the May 2002 murder of journalist Edgar Damalerio, was one exception. He had identified Guillermo "Gimo" Wapille as the gunman in Damalerio's murder, and had vowed to see the case through, despite threats on his life. Wapille, a former policeman, is now in jail, after more than two years of eluding arrest. Last month, Amoro himself was shot dead. A known gun for hire once in the employ of the Pagadian mayor was arrested in connection with his murder, but was later released.

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2006-11-24T09:50:00.000+08:00

Vice Mayor Juvy Magsino & Human Rights Lawyer Leima Fortu murdered.
KARAPATAN vehemently condemns murder of yet two more rights activists
After President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo left Mindoro Island yesterday (02/12/004) as part of her campaign sortie, two human rights activists were killed by elements belonging to the 204th Infantry Brigade under Col. Fernando L. Mesa.
KARAPATAN, the Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights vigorously denounced the killing of Naujan Vice Mayor Juvy Magsino, also a human rights lawyer and Leima Fortu, acting secretary general of KARAPATAN-Mindoro Oriental yesterday, February 13, 2004 in Barangay Amuguis, Naujan, Mindoro Oriental.
“We are utterly outraged by their killing and the pattern of brazenness it was done !” a fuming Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Secretary General of KARAPATAN National who is presently in Oslo, Norway to attend as observer in the peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front said. She also disclaimed radio reports that the killing was primarily election related. “We believe that Vice Mayor Magsino and Ms. Fortu were clear targets of the 204th Brigade because they were affiliated with both KARAPATAN and Bayan Muna which have always been openly villlified and attacked by these wild group of killers.”
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2006-11-22T18:49:00.003+08:00

Extra Judicial killing Davao City men on motorcycle. Sunday night Nov 19.
Men on motorcycle shot dead two men who were walking along Artiaga St. Sunday night Nov 19. Based on the report of the San Pedro Police Precinct, the victims were Jerome Campo, 18, resident of Mabini Artiaga and Raymond Caña. Campo suffered two gunshot wounds on the head and three on the back, while Caña had two wounds on the body. Bystanders immediately brought them to the Davao Medical Center where they died. Members of the Scene of the Crime Operations found a “sumpak,” an improvised gun in the area which was said to belong to Campo. Investigators are still looking into the event.
By Lovella S. Baynosa Mindanao Times : 2006-11-21
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2006-11-21T15:42:00.000+08:00

News Flash Arroyo interview reveals - Erap toppled
Monday, February 27, 2006

NEWS FLASH: MILITARY COUP TOPPLES PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT (with help from Communists and Leftists)
Mike Arroyo, in his own words.
Credit should go to Mike ArroyoTHIS is a season of remembering those exhilarating days in January last year when Joseph Estrada, accused of betraying the trust of the Filipino people who elected him president, was ousted three years and five months short of his term.Believing in giving credit to where credit is due, we are reprinting here again excerpts of the interview with Mike Arroyo by the eminent Nick Joaquin on his role in the ouster of Estrada, which paved the way for his wife's takeover of the presidency.
The interview appeared in March 5, 2001 issue of Philippine Graphic.
"She had really left the Cabinet at the right moment: the timing was perfect. If she had tarried a moment longer, she would have been too late for EDSA: she would have made it there as an opportunist. And as for the ill-feeling in Metro Manila, we tackled that by going back to the door-to-door campaign: she went from barangay to barangay explaining her motives, outlining her program. And it worked. Then came the impeachment trial, and from there, tuloy-tuloy na."There was a time honestly, when I felt I erred in advising her to resign from the Cabinet. The masa in Manila apparently wanted her to stick it out with Erap.
And when she started attacking him, everything fell on us - grabe!- everything! But I told myself: it's now or never; if we lose here we're totally destroyed and it's goodbye to her political career - but if we win here, she becomes President! So we really fought.
"We got all those Erap tapes from Ramon Jacinto and distributed them all over. We bought one million and a half million copies of Pinoy Times to give away so the public could read about the Erap mansions and bank accounts."And when EDSA happened, we texted everybody to go running there. EDSA, EDSA: everybody converge on EDSA! Panalo kung panalo. Patay kung patay! Jinggoy had already announced what they would do to us if they won.
"Chavit Singson had Plan B involving elements of the military to strike the first blow. They would kindle the spark by withdrawing from the government, and one by one others would follow: Class '71 would also withdraw, then Class '72, and so forth. But General de Villa warned that the timing had to be precise because one untimely move against the government and the military would automatically defend it. The move must be made at what De Villa called a 'defining moment.'
"You see, General De Villa had his Plan A, which was better than ours, because his was focused on the Chief of Staff and the Service Commanders. At past one o'clock p.m. January 20, Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes defected but we knew that already the night before, when negotiations had lasted until the small hours. By past 2 a.m. we knew Reyes had been convinced to join. His only condition was: Show us a million people on EDSA so it will b easier to bring in the service commanders."And they asked when the crowd was thickest; we told them: from three to five in the afternoon. So they agreed to come to EDSA at around that time. But while hiding in their safehouse, they got reports that General Calimlim could not be located and their first thought was: "He's out looking for us!" So they decided to rush to EDSA right away. When they got there, why there too at the Shrine was Calimlim! He had been looking for them all right, but join to join them, not to arrest them!"Our group there was a back-up strike force. In fact, it was our group that won over to our side the PNP first. If Panfilo Lacson had resisted, he and his men would have been repelled: there would have been bloodshed, but not on EDSA. In every place where Erap loyalists had a force, we had a counter-force to face it, with orders to shoot. And not only in Metro Manila. Carillo had already been sent to the provinces; and in Nueva Ecija, for instance, we had Rabosa. This was a fight to the finish. That's why those five days that Erap was demanding were so important. He was counting on counter-coups and baliktaran."I was negotiating with Pardo up to three o'clock in the morning: niloloko lang pala kami. But I told him point-blank: "If by six o'clock this morning you haven't given us the resignation letter, we will storm the gates of Malacañang!' But they insisted on more talk: with De Villa up front, and my back channel debate with Pardo, which even became a three-way contest, with Buboy Virata pitching in."But the threat to march to Malacañang was for real. And so was the danger of bloodshed. I wasn't telling Gloria everything: I didn't want her alarmed. So she didn't know about the orders to shoot.
"UPDATE: oh yeah there were communists and leftists too who participated in this: Crispin Beltran, Satur Ocampo, Teddy Casino Liza Masa, Rafael Mariano and Etta Rosales.
UPDATE: the difference between estrada and arroyo is that erap at least was democratically elected (won by a landslide), whereas Arroyo stole the presidency TWICE. One in 2001. The other during the 2004 elections.

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2006-11-21T15:31:00.000+08:00

Extra Judicial Killings - Bishop Alberto Ramento -
Leftist and human rights groups boycotted commission headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo, 74, questioning its independence. Only three generals and a resource person have appeared before the commission since it was convened in late August.
A Human Rights Watch report in September found deep public distrust of the government’s investigative effort, widespread fear among witnesses and victims’ families, and a climate of fear in areas where the killings occurred.
Police Deputy Director Avelino Razon says had narrowed down the number of suspected politically motivated killings to 136 since 2001 and solved 62 cases.
Razon didn’t say how many suspects had been arrested and expressed doubt over the higher figure cited.
US apparel makers alarmed over the murder of Bishop Alberto Ramento inside his rectory in Tarlac City in October and the reports of violent attacks against striking workers at the Cavite Economic Zone (CEZ).
The companies, which buy apparel from the Philippines, asked for an impartial investigation into the killing of Ramento, chair of the Board of Directors of the Workers Assistance Center, and the shooting of Gerardo Cristobal, former union president and member of the Solidarity of Cavite Workers (SCW).
On Oct. 23, the striking workers of Philippines-Jeon Garments Inc. and Chong Won Fashion Inc., both Korean-owned garment factories in the CEZ, filed charges with the Commission on Human Rights against officials of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority and the local Cavite police for alleged violent dispersals of their picket line last month.
The workers in the two companies have been on strike since the last week of September due to the refusal of the management to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
Illegal dismissals
Marlene Gonzales, former employee of Chong Won and now president of the SCW, said the workers doubted the “sincerity of the companies’ commitment to the workers’ plight.”
Chong Won Fashion Inc. supplies products to Wal-Mart in the United States, such as T-shirts, ladies’ blouses, polo shirts, pants, jogging pants, sleepwear and other apparel. Philippines-Jeon produces apparel for such firms as Al Assel and Zico in Saudi Arabia, CNI in the United States and Dream Station in Japan. With reports from Gil C. Cabacungan Jr., Philip C. Tubeza and Niña Catherine Calleja, Southern Luzon.

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2006-11-21T15:16:00.000+08:00

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