Some 115,000 Grade I public school pupils nationwide will be supplied with locally-produced milk by dairy farmers beginning opening of school year this year. According to the Department of Agriculture…
Grecil Buya was a lively girl who liked to play with spiders and thought TV noontime show host Willie Revillame was a great artist. She excelled in school, finishing Grade Two with honors and with the award “Most Neat and Clean.” She took on chores, like minding the carabao. On March 31, the nine-year-old girl was killed by soldiers during an encounter with the New People’s Army. The soldiers claimed the nine-year-old girl aimed an Armalite rifle at them, forcing them to shoot her. Family and friends were saddened by Grecil’s death but are outraged at the allegation that she was a communist guerrilla.
Child-advocate groups in Davao City and the region have called on the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the death of Grecil Galacio, the nine-year-old girl from Compostela Valley province…
PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
CPP belies child soldier tag on 9-year old girl killed by soldiers
April 7, 2007
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today condemned the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for killing a nine year old girl in Compostela Valley last March 31 and covering up their heinous crime by claiming that the victim was an “11-year old child soldier of the NPA.”
URGENT ALERT
UA Date: 5 April 2007
UA Title: Nine-year old child killed by soldiers in Compostela Valley Province, Philippines
UA Case: Summary Execution
Victim/s: GRACEL GALACIO
?P 9 years old
?P Female, daughter of Gregorio and Virginia Galacio
?P A resident of Purok-6, Baragay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province, Philippines
?P Second Grade Pupil at the Simsimin Elementary School, New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province, Philippines
Place of Incident: Purok-6, Barangay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province, Philippines
Date of Incident: 31 March 2007, at around 8:00 in the morning
Alleged Perpetrators: More or less 30 armed military elements belonging to the 8th Infantry Battalion of
the Philippine Army led by 2nd Lt. Francis John Gabawa, platoon commanding officer
