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By Anthony Vargas Reporter
Another member of a leftist
militant organization was shot dead in Davao del Sur, police
reported Friday.
Reports reaching Camp Crame
identified the victim as Renato Pacaide, who belonged to the
Anakpawis, which, the military claims, is a front organization of
communist rebels.
Pacaide was walking with his
daughter on Lim Extension Road in Digos City when a motorcycle
pulled alongside them, police said.
One of the motorcycle’s riders
got off and fired a pistol at Pacaide, hitting him in the right ear.
Pacaide died instantly, reports sent by the Davao del Sur provincial
police office said.
Pacaide had reportedly joined a
workers strike at a company that was planning to lay off 80 of its
employees this month.
Most of the past killings of
militant activists were reportedly carried out by gunmen riding
motorcycles.
The chief of the Davao del Sur
police, Senior Supt. Anselmo Pinili, ordered the formation of a
special task force to focus on the Pacaide case.
The killing in Digos came a week
after two separate reports by the Melo Commission and UN Special
Rapporteur, Philip Alston, blamed a rogue group in the military as
behind the extrajudicial killings of leftist militants.
The military on the other
attributes the killings to communist rebels who are purging its
ranks of government infiltrators.
As many as 800 extrajudicial
killings have been recorded since 2001, when President Arroyo
assumed office.
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