Bayan Muna Officer
Killed in Laguna
BY
BULATLAT
Posted 8:30 p.m.,
May 27, 2006
Noli Capulong,
secretary general of the party-list group Bayan Muna, was killed near
St. John Hospital in Barangay Parian, Calamba town in the province of
Laguna (52 km south of Manila) today at around 6 in the evening.
Dorris Cuario,
secretary general of the human rights group Karapatan in Southern
Tagalog said two motorcycle-riding men wearing ski-masks shot and killed
Capulong on the spot. The latest victim of extra judicial killing
sustained four gunshot wounds in the head and body.
Capulong’s murder
brings to 94 the number of Bayan Muna members killed since 2001.
He was also a
regional staff member of the multi-sectoral group Bagong Alyangsang
Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and served as spokesperson
for the Southern Tagalog Environmental Action Movement (STEAM).
Cuario said their
group will hold an indignation rally in front of Gate 2 of the
Department of National Defense (DND) along EDSA at 10 am tomorrow, May
28. Bulatlat
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