Although Evelyn was killed by NPA guerillas the previous week because of her links with the military, Leoncio Pitao, also known as Kumander Parago, blamed the government for recruiting members of his family just to track his whereabouts. Read on.
By Media Mindanao News Service (August 15, 1987 News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988) DAVAO CITY (MMNS) - Nearly 50 percent of human rights violation incidents in Mindanao where…
By Media Mindanao News Service (August 15, 1987 News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988) DAVAO CITY (MMNS) - The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) of Region XI will recommend…
Order of Battle - Malicious Forgery or Conspiracy to Murder? By Alan Davis Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project MANILA -- Just as there is a law against sedition, so equally…
DAVAO CITY---The name Danilo Santiago first appeared in the media on June 14 last year, a day after a man by that name was killed in Tagum, Davao del Norte. When the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) conducted a public inquiry on the killing of Kumander Parago?s daughter Rebelyn Pitao in April this year, the name Danilo Santiago again cropped up. But who was Danilo Santiago? How was his death related to the death of Rebelyn Pitao? Commissioner Leila De Lima had asked Helvin Bitang, a Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) personnel, if he knew the man. Read on.