NORTH COTABATO (Mindanao Examiner / 14 Mar) – Family and relatives of a slain militant farmer in North Cotabato province are demanding justice as militant groups and political activists condemned the killing.
Carlito Getrosa, 49, a member of Bayan Muna in Pigcawayan town here, was shot in the head by three masked motorcycle gunmen in front of his terrified family at the weekend.
His group said Gertrosa was the 875th victim of political killings since President Gloria Arroyo assumed the presidency in 2001.
"The recent killing bears the usual pattern and same purpose for which all the cases of political killings in the country are done. The crimes are getting intolerable and unforgivable that we condemn in highest terms Gloria Arroyo for staying numb and inefficient," Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador said.
Virador said the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines continue unabated despite the investigations of the United Nations and the independent Melo Commission. Both investigations point to soldiers as allegedly responsible to most of the murders, an accusation strongly denied by the Philippine military.
The United States Senate is currently investigating the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. Summary executions are also rampant in the southern cities of Zamboanga, Davao, Digos and Cebu in the central Philippines.
“While the culprits remain vindicated and the killings continue with impunity, the families of the victims are blatantly denied of the justice they lawfully deserve.”
"The Arroyo regime is seemed unmoved by the recommendations of the (UN investigator Philip) Alston and Melo reports that no concrete steps are being taken to truthfully investigate the alleged participation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the killings," Virador said.
He said the attacks against the leaders and members of Bayan Muna and other progressive party list groups opposed to Arroyo’s rule are all meant to discredit them in the mid-year elections.
Bayan Muna and other allied party list groups have topped recent independent surveys in the Philippines.
The military branded the militant groups as front of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army rebels. It accused Bayan Muna and other groups of channeling funds to the rebels in support of their armed struggle to topple the democratic government and install a Marxist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
Carlito Getrosa, 49, a member of Bayan Muna in Pigcawayan town here, was shot in the head by three masked motorcycle gunmen in front of his terrified family at the weekend.
His group said Gertrosa was the 875th victim of political killings since President Gloria Arroyo assumed the presidency in 2001.
"The recent killing bears the usual pattern and same purpose for which all the cases of political killings in the country are done. The crimes are getting intolerable and unforgivable that we condemn in highest terms Gloria Arroyo for staying numb and inefficient," Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador said.
Virador said the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines continue unabated despite the investigations of the United Nations and the independent Melo Commission. Both investigations point to soldiers as allegedly responsible to most of the murders, an accusation strongly denied by the Philippine military.
The United States Senate is currently investigating the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. Summary executions are also rampant in the southern cities of Zamboanga, Davao, Digos and Cebu in the central Philippines.
“While the culprits remain vindicated and the killings continue with impunity, the families of the victims are blatantly denied of the justice they lawfully deserve.”
"The Arroyo regime is seemed unmoved by the recommendations of the (UN investigator Philip) Alston and Melo reports that no concrete steps are being taken to truthfully investigate the alleged participation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the killings," Virador said.
He said the attacks against the leaders and members of Bayan Muna and other progressive party list groups opposed to Arroyo’s rule are all meant to discredit them in the mid-year elections.
Bayan Muna and other allied party list groups have topped recent independent surveys in the Philippines.
The military branded the militant groups as front of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army rebels. It accused Bayan Muna and other groups of channeling funds to the rebels in support of their armed struggle to topple the democratic government and install a Marxist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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