Bayan Muna Member Shot Dead in Pasay
BY BULATLAT
Posted 1:45pm Feb. 20,
2006
Another member of the
party-list group Bayan Muna (people first) was shot dead around 9 a.m.
Feb. 18 in Pasay City.
The Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan-Kilusang Mayo Uno (Pamantik-KMU
or Solidarity of Workers in Southern Tagalog-May First Movement) said that
Jensen Cristobal, 31, single, just alighted from a passenger bus from Santa
Rosa, Laguna when he was gunned down by four unidentified men in front of
a Honda Center in Paseo de Magallanes, Pasay City.
Cristobal sustained
six bullet wounds from .38 and .45 cal. pistols. The assassins, who were
on aboard a Honda Civic with plate number UHD 416, immediately fled after
the shooting.
Cristobal was a member
of Bayan Muna Partylist and the Santa Rosa city mayor’s public information
officer. He was also a former staff of the militant Bagong Alyansang
Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) chapter in Laguna (43 kms.
south of Manila).
The Cristobal killing
comes in the heels of reported intensified violence against the people of
Laguna and neighboring provinces comprising the Southern Tagalog region,
said Luz Baculo, Pamantik secretary general.
“The murder of Jensen
is not an isolated case. His case is the same as that of Mely Carvajal,
Diosdado Fortuna and Roberto dela Cruz. It is but part of the political
repression under the U.S.-Arroyo regime,” said Baculo.
Gabriela member Mely
Carvajal was shot dead in front of her house in August 2004 while Diosdado
Fortuna, Pamantik chairman and union president in Nestlé Philippines
Cabuyao, was ambushed on his way home last Sept. 22., 2005. Roberto dela
Cruz, union officer in Tritran Bus Co. union officer, was murdered Jan. 25
this year. Bulatlat
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