By RONALYN OLEA
UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Philip Alston visited the country in February 2007 to look into the spate of extrajudicial killings. He cited the counter-insurgency program of the government and the failure to prosecute perpetrators as the main reasons behind the killings.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Putting all our hopes together, our grief, we plead to the new government to surface the victims of enforced disappearance from the Marcos regime to the Arroyo regime,” Edith Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas said.
By RONALYN OLEA
Union member Edward Panganiban is the ninth worker killed in Southern Tagalog and the 96th nationwide under the Arroyo government.