BY DEE AYROSO
Posted
Jan. 24, 2007,
2:02 p.m.
Activists condemned the continued
killings of activists by suspected military agents, the latest of which
were three Bayan Muna party-list members slain separately in Albay and
Sorsogon provinces in the Bicol region in the past three days.
The latest slayings bring to 824 the
victims of extrajudicial killings under President Arroyo.
A report by the Karapatan (Alliance for
the Advancement of People’s Rights) said
killed at noon yesterday was Ruben
Ermino, 52, a tricycle driver of Tabi village, Gubat, Sorsogon and a
Bayan Muna member, who was shot dead by motorcycle-riding men. At 7 pm,
Demetrio “Don” Imperial, 26, was having dinner with his wife and child
in Sogoy village, also in Sorsogon, when armed men in ski-masks barged
into their home of and shot him.
The Karapatan report said on Monday,
Jan. 21, Ananias Burce, village chief of Oras, Tabaco City, Albay was
shot dead with eight gunshot wounds in Bantayan village, in the same
town.
Some 50 activists led by the Bayan Muna
Party-list picketed the gate of Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, accusing
the military of perpetrating the killings. Camp Aguinaldo houses the
Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The protesters burned pictures of President Arroyo and AFP chief
Hermogenes Esperon.
Atty. Neri Colmenares of Bayan Muna said
the killings are “not only a violation of human rights, but a violation
of the electoral rights of the people.” He said that Arroyo had done
nothing to stop the killings, and in spite of condemnation by
international bodies.
On Jan. 19, in Catarman, Northern Samar,
university professor and human rights worker Jose Ma. Cui was gunned
down in his classroom. Bulatlat
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