I am happy to see that political science students from the University of San Carlos (USC) came out of their classrooms to hold a demonstration just outside the school’s downtown campus in protest of the recent spate…
Students of the University of the Philippines in Cebu will hold a rally at their school grounds late Friday afternoon to condemn the still unresolved drug killings in the country. Winona Colina, a UP Cebu students protest…
About 132 cases of drug-related killings occurred in Cebu as of August 9 this year, which the regional Commission on Human Rights (CHR-7) considered as an “overwhelming” number. CHR-7 chief investigator Leo Villarino said they only have…
Five men were killed vigilante style by unidentified persons – three in Cebu City, one in Lapu-Lapu City and one in Mandaue City. In Cebu City, four men who were inside an alleged drug den at dawn…
With the daily spate of killings in Cebu alone, yesterday’s count reached eight persons shot dead either by unknown assailants or in an alleged encounter with law enforcement agents. The victims were all suspected drug personalities, some…
A group of Cebuano lawyers have sought the support of Vice President Leni Robredo to stem the rash of vigilante-style killings of drug suspects in Cebu amid suspicion that some policemen themselves might be involved in these…
ABOUT 500 persons belonging to different militant groups staged a rally at Colon Street in Cebu City to urge President Rodrigo Duterte to address national and local concerns hours before he delivers his first State of the…
Amid the rising body count in the administration’s war on crime, Malacañang on Saturday said it was open to any investigation on drug-related killings, as being called upon by human rights advocates and lawmakers. “As far as…
Church and human rights leaders in Cebu balked at the possibility that the Rodrigo Duterte administration will herald an era of extra-judicial killings of criminals amid repeated pronouncements from the incoming president about his readiness to kill…
Early in 2006, Virginia was losing sleep over fears that her son Michael would be the next to fall in what appeared to be a spate of vigilante-style executions of petty criminals in Cebu City. Tomas Osmeña,…
It’s not yet even the honeymoon period—that traditional grace period given by the media and, to some extent, the detractors of any incoming president just as he or she assumes the reins of office and yet President-elect…
“KILL CORRUPT JOURNALISTS” “BUT for the President-elect to encourage murder as solution assaults the oath he took as a lawyer, as mayor, and soon as president of the country. And that oath is to uphold the law.”…
