The Philippine government’s failure to investigate and prosecute extrajudicial killings fuels further military abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government should ensure that officials vigorously investigate serious human rights violations or face disciplinary action, Human Rights Watch said.

A panel of public prosecutors found probable cause to file murder charges against the person who allegedly hired the gunman and the gunman’s accomplices in the killing of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) dwAR broadcaster Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega.

I am Chandu Claver. My family was the target of an ambush by suspected State agents nearly four years today on July 31, 2006 in the province of Kalinga. My wife Alice was killed, as a result. Because of continuing threats on what remained of my family, I was forced to seek political refuge in Canada.

By CONCHA ARANETA
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Panay Island
Fernando Baldomero, Provincial Coordinator of MAKABAYAN for Aklan and elected Councilor of the Lezo Municipal Council, was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants as he was preparing to bring his child to school on 5 July 2010 in Kalibo, Aklan. This was the last of the long series of threats and harassments inflicted …

MANILA — ACT Teachers Party-list Representative Antonio Tinio today condemned
the spate of killings that have victimized teachers in the last few
days. “We are truly alarmed that three teachers have been murdered in
the span of a few days. How can our public school teachers serve the
public if their basic security cannot be guaranteed by the state?”
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(UPDATED): Karapatan chairperson Marie Hilao-Enriquez pointed out that Baldomero’s killing followed the announcement of the new three-year counter-insurgency plan by the newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ricardo David.

A radio journalist has been gunned down in the northern Philippines, the fourth to have been murdered in less than a month and the first under the week-old administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III.

NEW YORK – The Philippine National Bureau of Investigation should immediately investigate the latest killing of a witness to the November 2009 massacre of at least 58 people in Maguindanao province, Mindanao, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the government to act swiftly to protect witnesses and their families.
An unidentified gunman shot and killed Suwaib Upham, …