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JULIA SYMMES COBB, of Reuters, reports on the ongoing search for those who disappeared during 60 years of conflict in the South American nation...

3 wanted Koreans nabbed in Angeles

June 28, 2021 Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the Clark International Airport (CIA) intercepted two female overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Jeddah for misrepresenting their age. In a report to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente, Travel Control and Enforcement Unit officers Maria Clarissa Bartolome and Kaypee Enebrad detailed the interception of the duo last Thursday, after being suspected of falsifying their age to qualify to work as Household Service Workers (HSWs) abroad. The duo,...

June 14, 2021 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to deport a South Korean national wanted by authorities in Seoul for swindling and defrauding four of his compatriots. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente identified the captured alien fugitive as 41-year-old Kim Byunggon, who is now detained at the BI Detention Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City. Last June 2, operatives from the BI’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) arrested the Korean inside a mall in Bgy. Apas, Cebu City, on the stren...

May 13, 2021 Colombia’s security forces apparently entered panic mode and the government of President Ivan Duque all but collapsed after the US Congress reiterated threats to cut military funds. The panic was most evident on the National Army’s twitter page, which suddenly began publishing in Spanglish about mysterious “spirit of body and military training.” The prosecution and the police additionally announced investigations into reports on widespread human rights violations against an...

Police on 356 occasions tried to violently end peaceful protests 111 people were injured by police bullets Police murdered 39 protesters Source: Indepaz / Temblores The alleged mass human rights violations have isolated the increasingly authoritarian Duque and have swollen support for the anti-government protests. First talks with protest leaders The National Strike Committee will meet with Duque on Monday, almost a year and a half after their first national strike sparked the biggest anti-gove...

May 7, 2021 The missing persons unit of Colombia’s transitional justice system raised the alarm on Thursday that 379 participants in anti-government protests of the past week have gone missing. The Missing Persons Search Unit that is part of a transitional justice system came to the alarmingly high number after cross-referencing the databases of some 26 organizations. The number presented by the president of the search unit, Luz Marina Monzon, dwarfs the 38 missing persons allegedly registere...

UN Human Rights report shows rising violence and inequality in Colombia There were at least 795 acts of aggression, such as attacks and threats, against human rights defender, with women accounting for at least 26 per cent of victims. With 14 per cent of cases, Bogota was the worst affected area, along with Cauca.   British NGO that campaigns for human rights, workers’ rights and the search for peace with social justice in Colombia. Widespread violence continued to impact Colombia’s most v...

February 25, 2021 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of a Bahraini national wanted for sex crimes in his country. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente identified the captured alien fugitive as 43-year-old Alsendi Waleed Abdulla Hamad, who was arrested on Tuesday in Bgy. San Francisco II, Dasmariñas, Cavite by operatives from the bureau’s fugitive search unit (FSU). Morente said he issued the mission order for Hamad’s arrest on orders of the Department of Justice (DOJ) who instruc...

Colombia To Study Remains Of 416 Possible Internal War Victims 02/17/21 AT 10:37 PM A special team of investigators on Wednesday said they will attempt to identify 416 human remains found in a northwestern Colombian town to determine if they were victims of the countrys lengthy internal war. The remains, found in a cemetery in Puerto Berrio, in Antioquia department, were in "bags and buckets" and were at risk of "getting mixed up and prone to deterioration," a team official told AFP. The team, ...