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                    [Title] => Commission on Human Rights builds up case on militant's slay
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The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Ilocos region is finally building up a case on the killing of an activist here four years ago.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 379516 [Title] => 50th IB chief disowns officer tagged in activist’s slay [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — The commanding officer of the Army’s 50th Infantry Brigade based in Ilocos Sur said yesterday that a captain tagged as the gunman in an activist’s killing was never assigned to his unit.

Lt. Col. Harold Cabreros, 50th IB chief, told The STAR that police investigators were misinformed about the identity of Capt. Joel Castro as relayed by an unnamed witness to the killing of activist Jose Manegdeg.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 379025 [Title] => Army captain tagged in activist’s slay [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — An Army captain of the Ilocos Sur-based 50th Infantry Battalion was tagged by a witness in the Nov. 28, 2005 killing of activist Jose "Pepe" Manegdeg, prompting human rights groups to insist that the military is indeed behind the spate of killings of leftists in the country.

Joel Castro, a captain of the Philippine Army formerly assigned at the Military Intelligence Company (MICO), was identified by a witness (who requested anonymity) as the one who gunned down Manegdeg in Sitio Bigbiga, San Nicolas, San Esteban town, in Ilocos Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 368916 [Title] => Gov’t winning anti-insurgency campaign in Northern Luzon — military [Summary] => Government troops are winning the anti-insurgency campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA) in Northern Luzon, the region’s military commander said yesterday.

Quoting figures from the last quarter, Armed Forces Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) chief Maj. Gen. Bonifacio Ramos said since Oct. 1, troops killed eight rebels in eight clashes with the NPA in Northern Luzon.

"There is no question that we are succeeding in reducing the capability of the enemy, because right now, the NPA is in total disarray," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309492 [Title] => 2 activists gunned down in Abra, Ilocos Sur [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Assassins’ bullets felled two activists in separate attacks in Ilocos Sur and Abra these past two days.

At about 10 p.m. last Monday, Jose Manegdeg III, 37, a worker of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines-Ilocos and Cordilleras, was gunned down in San Esteban, Ilocos Sur.

Several hours later, at about 9 a.m., Albert Terredaño, a human rights activist working with the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Bangued, Abra, was shot by a motorcycle-riding man. He died at 3:45 p.m. yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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