Topic: Violence
CHR: Davao lot yields 'human remains'
July 8, 2009 · By Katherine Adraneda, The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – The continuing investigation of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) into the Davao death squad has yielded skeletal remains at a privately owned property, believed to be the dumping ground of bodies of victims of summary killings in Davao City, the human rights body said yesterday. Armed with a search warrant issued […]
Read More...Philippines city flourishes under rule of the gun
May 20, 2004 · By KATHY MARKS
DAVAO – In the Philippines and beyond, the southern island of Mindanao is a byword for civil war, anarchy and violence. Its mountains and jungles harbour separatist guerrillas locked in a struggle for an independent Muslim state. Kidnappings are rife, and a Communist insurgency has raged for decades. Tribal warlords backed by private militias rule […]
Read More...Vigilante killings alarm Philippines citizens
November 30, 2003 · By Alan Sipress Washington Post
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Clarita Alia has visited the San Pedro public cemetery every week for the last two years. From evening until dawn, she camps beside the graves of her two teen-age boys, stabbed to death a year earlier in separate attacks. When her 14-year-old son, Bobby, was released f rom jail last year […]
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