2009 March 31 | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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Davao’s “Summary Killings”: Probe by CHR in 2009, UN rep Alston in 2007

The two-day probe of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights this week on the “summary executions” in Davao City in Mindanao reminds me of the investigations by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2007. The inquiries is making waves about the killings not only in ...