Claver: Death
Squad Killed My Wife
BY
EMILY VITAL
Bulatlat
Posted 7:02 p.m., Aug. 10, 2006
In a videotaped testimony presented
before media today, Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver pointed to
military-backed death squads as perpetrators of the July 30 shooting that
killed his wife, Alyce. The tape was presented by the fact-finding team
that investigated the killing.
Two assassins fired at the van of the
Claver family morning of July 31. His wife Alyce, who sustained 26 gunshot
wounds, died a few hours after the incident.
Their daughter Cassandra, though
physically unharmed, suffers from trauma.
“We believe that the killers of my
wife were members of the death squad brought here by military and the
Arroyo regime to try to quell insurgency,” Claver said in his testimony,
referring to the Cordillera region.
A fact-finding team that investigated
the incident concluded that Chandu was the main target of the assassins.
The groups Health Action for Human Rights and the Health Alliance for
Democracy led the team.
Claver also said, “This is not an
isolated incident. This is a systematic and continuous program of the
Arroyo regime.”
“We are being branded as terrorists.
Do terrorists work for the people? This is a very hard thing for us to
accept.”
Claver has been practicing medicine in
Kalinga for 25 years and has been one of the active proponents of programs
that encourage doctors stay in the countryside.
Bulatlat
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