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Friday, February 06, 2009

 

CHR alarmed over serial killings in Davao City 

Rights commission Chairman de Lima says vigilantism violates human rights

 
By Ira Karen Apanay, Senior Reporter
 
COMMISSION on Human Rights (CHR) Chairman Leila de Lima on Thursday expressed deep alarm about the unabated mysterious serial killings in Davao City saying that vigilante-style of killing is a violation of human rights.

De Lima expressed deep alarm about the “most mysterious serial killings” in Davao City, which “are in large part attributable to the inscrutably secret ‘Davao Death Squad’.”

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MUSLIM rebels on Wednesday failed to cut the power lines in Central Mindanao after they bombed a transmission tower of the National Transmission Corp. (TransCo), reports reaching Camp Crame revealed.

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SUBIC BAY Freeport: A day after Sen. Jingoy Estrada grilled Hanjin during the Senate inquiry he personally made a site inspection at the controversial shipyard in this Freeport.

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CABANATUAN CITY: Local government and line agency officials, along with representatives from the private sector, pledged on Wednesday to vanguard the rights and lives of children.

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JOLO, Sulu: A Muslim cleric has been asked to mediate in talks to free three Red Cross workers being held in the southern Philippines by Islamist rebels, an official said Thursday.

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THE government of Montalban, including three of its barangays, continues to generate income from the operation of the provincial sanitary landfill located in Barangay San Isidro for the period January to December 2008.

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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: Joint forces of the Pahilippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Cordillera police force arrested three suspected big time marijuana dealers and confiscated more than 70.5 kilos of dried marijuana bricks worth P2.38 million in two separate operation.

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