Why worry about the OB list?
(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.
A Pattern to Madness
(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)
Peers of slain doctor worried over colleagues’ safety
Pe?era's name was not in the reported military list earlier leaked by Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo to the media. But groups like the United Integrated Health Services Foundation Incorporated (UIHSFI), where Pe?era used to sit as Board member, and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), where he was a council member, were. Dr. Jean Lindo, chair of the doctor's group Rx for Peace, said the killing of Pe?era has raised the concern of their colleagues over the safety of six other physicians identified in the military Order of Battle (OB) list. They included Dr. Ruben Robillo, Dr. Jose Lacuesta, Dr. Shalom Lorezana, Dr. Eugene Nalian, Dr. Rey Lasaka. The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) plans to call a meeting with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to clarify what?s on the document. Read on.
Something reeks in government housing
Alan Codizar?s family noticed the smell after two months inside their house in Catalunan Grande, a village about five kilometers from downtown Davao. ?We thought it was the dog,? recalled Codizar?s wife Lourdes, ?So, we moved the doghouse somewhere else but still the smell lingered.? Later, they opened the sewage at the back of the house and noticed that the pipes were leaking. The house was one of the low cost housing units of the South Villa Heights 2 awarded to them in 1994 under the Unified Home Lending Program (UHLP). But they only assumed it two years ago because the area did not have an access road and it was very far from their place of work. When they took over, the one-room 90-sq. meter house looked like an empty matchbox. They put up jalousies on the windows, installed the doors and the tiles on the floors and later, the sewage pipes. ?There were cracks even at the ceiling,? Lourdes said, ?We can?t even nail something on the wall without feeling that the house would crumble.? Read on