CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 11 Mar) – An unidentified gunman shot dead a political activist in an attack near an army detachment in the southern Philippines, militant groups said.
Cheche Gandinao, a member of the militant party list group, Bayan Muna, was killed in Misamis Oriental’s Salay town on Saturday. The murder of the 56-year old activist came barely a month after she testified in a UN probe headed by Philip Alston on extra-judicial killings in Davao City.
Alston was convinced that the military was behind most of the killings of political activists in the Philippines.
Gandinao, the 14th activist killed in the Philippine this year, was shot at least four times in the body and head. Her father-in-law, a peasant leader, was also killed in similar attack in February.
Gandinao’s killer fled on motorcycle after the attack which occurred just several blocks away from the military detachment manned by militias.
No group or individual claimed responsibility for the attack, but militant groups blamed the military for the killing. (Mindanao Examiner)
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