A Davao Punk?s Adventure Gone Horribly Wrong


Punk’d. Anderson Alonzo says he saw soldiers electrocuting one of his friends. (davaotoday.com photo by Jeffrey Tupas)

A Davao City resident recalls the arrest and ensuing torture he and 10 other punks suffered in the hands of the police and military in Mountain Province. “We thought we were going to be ‘salvaged?,? Anderson Alonzo recalled. ?Everyone was scared. All I could think about was, whatever happens, we wanted our bodies to be taken back home.”

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The Melo Commission Report

After intense public pressure, the Arroyo administration released on Thursday the report of the Melo Commission, which was created to investigate the killings of political activists and journalists in the Philippines. In a nutshell, the report assigns accountability to state security forces for these atrocities.

Davao Today, which sourced the document from the Office of the Press Secretary, is publishing the report in full, but divided it by section and subsection for easy reading and navigation.

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