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Davao Today » Extrajudicial Killings http://davaotoday.com News, reports, commentary, blogs -- Davao City, the Philippines Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Why worry about the OB list? http://davaotoday.com/2009/08/07/a-pattern-to-madness-2/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/08/07/a-pattern-to-madness-2/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:31:31 +0000 GERMELINA A. LACORTE http://davaotoday.com/?p=4959 (Second of three parts) First Part : A Pattern to Madness AT LEAST three people whose names and groups were on the reported military list that Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo leaked to the media in May, were killed in the last two years. The picture of Pojas, killed on May 15 last year, appeared in one of the slides. ]]> http://davaotoday.com/2009/08/07/a-pattern-to-madness-2/feed/ 0 http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/12/a-doctor%e2%80%99s-death-and-the-dying-health-system/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/12/a-doctor%e2%80%99s-death-and-the-dying-health-system/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:33:53 +0000 GRACE S. UDDIN http://davaotoday.com/?p=4825

Dr. Bong Pe�era. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) � While more health workers chose to go abroad to look for greener pastures, Dr. Rogelio �Bong� Pe�era, 45, opted to stay. But on June 24 this year, his killers took his life. His brother Carlos Pe�era said he learned from the neighbors that men aboard an L200 vehicle had been asking about Dr. Pe�era a few days before he was killed. Dr. Jean Lindo, a member of the doctors� group Rx for Peace, said that amidst the continuing migration of doctors out of the country, Pe�era�s death was a big loss. Read on.]]> http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/12/a-doctor%e2%80%99s-death-and-the-dying-health-system/feed/ 0 A Pattern to Madness http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/07/a-pattern-to-madness/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/07/a-pattern-to-madness/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:47:58 +0000 GERMELINA A. LACORTE http://davaotoday.com/?p=4764 (first of three parts)

Killed on the feast of San Isidro, the patron saint of peasants, Celso Pojas fell just a few steps from the gate of the KMP office in Maa. (contributed photo)

First, their groups have been tagged as the legal fronts of the Communist New People's Army. Then, top military officials make public statements suggesting they're enemies of the state. Finally, before anyone could stop to consider, they are killed. This pattern emerges in the extrajudicial killings of activists in the country, which have become more pronounced in Davao City and neighboring provinces of Compostela Valley as the government's 2010 deadline to wipe out the Communist insurgency looms. After Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo exposed the existence of a military document linking some individuals and civil society groups to the Communist movement, Davao Today finds it urgent to look into the pattern of the killings of activists in this part of the country. Read on.]]> http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/07/a-pattern-to-madness/feed/ 1 Bayugan broadcaster shot dead http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/bayugan-broadcaster-shot-dead/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/bayugan-broadcaster-shot-dead/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:05:29 +0000 DAVAO TODAY http://davaotoday.com/?p=4655 http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/bayugan-broadcaster-shot-dead/feed/ 0 Peers of slain doctor worried over colleagues’ safety http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/peers-of-slain-doctor-worried-over-colleagues-safety/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/peers-of-slain-doctor-worried-over-colleagues-safety/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:18:25 +0000 GERMELINA A. LACORTE http://davaotoday.com/?p=4650 Read on.]]> http://davaotoday.com/2009/07/03/peers-of-slain-doctor-worried-over-colleagues-safety/feed/ 0 Unsolved killings alarm Muslims, Christians http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/29/unsolved-killings-alarm-muslims-christians/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/29/unsolved-killings-alarm-muslims-christians/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:57 +0000 DAVAO TODAY http://davaotoday.com/?p=4631 http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/29/unsolved-killings-alarm-muslims-christians/feed/ 0 Activist doctor shot dead in Davao http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/25/activist-doctor-shot-dead-in-davao/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/25/activist-doctor-shot-dead-in-davao/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:47:38 +0000 CHERYLL D. FIEL http://davaotoday.com/?p=4569 Read on.]]> http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/25/activist-doctor-shot-dead-in-davao/feed/ 1 Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-extrajudicial-summary-or-arbitrary-executions-philip-alston/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-extrajudicial-summary-or-arbitrary-executions-philip-alston/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:26:55 +0000 DAVAO TODAY http://davaotoday.com/?p=4506 http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-extrajudicial-summary-or-arbitrary-executions-philip-alston/feed/ 0 Humiliating saga http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/humiliating-saga/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/humiliating-saga/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:21:04 +0000 DAVAO TODAY http://davaotoday.com/?p=4503 http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/humiliating-saga/feed/ 0 Assault on student activists continues http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/assault-on-student-activists-continues/ http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/assault-on-student-activists-continues/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:18:16 +0000 DAVAO TODAY http://davaotoday.com/?p=4500 http://davaotoday.com/2009/06/22/assault-on-student-activists-continues/feed/ 0