By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY – All the gunman had to do was pump one bullet into the head of Renato Pacaide. His death would have been quick, perhaps relatively less brutal. But it took more than a bullet to kill a man known as “Ka Atong” to many of his friends and…
Month: March 2007
In the wake of killings: Election Fever Mounts in Abra
As the May election is fast approaching and candidacies are filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the election fever surges even in Abra with announcements by alleged warring parties and individuals of their intention to run challenging each other, at least in the polls. BY LYN V. RAMO AND ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch Posted…
Another Anakpawis leader killed
Bringing the number of political killings to 835 BY BULATLAT Posted March 2, 2007, 6:52 p.m. Renato Torrecampo Pacaide, 53, secretary general of Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma sa Davao del Sur (NAMADS or Unity of Peasants in Davao del Sur) and coordinator of Anakpawis-Davao del Sur, was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding men at 10:45 a.m. of…