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The shooting of 75-year-old Maria Gemma Onipa three days ago was witnessed by a fellow nun in Biliran province

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Published May 31, 2021, 6:02 PM Department of Justice The Department of Justice (DOJ) has yet to assess if the deaths of three persons, including two National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants, should be investigated by the inter-agency committee on extra-judicial killings (EJKs), Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said on Monday, May 31. “The DOJ will conduct a preliminary assessment of the subject incidents,” said Guevarra who is the chairman of the Administrative Order (AO) 35 Inter-Agency Committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture...

Former priest and activist shot dead in Philippines Left-wing groups accuse govt of executing Rustico Tan while he slept at his home Rustico Tan, 80, was murdered while sleeping in a hammock at his home in Cebu on May 28. (Photo supplied) A former priest and chief negotiator for a Philippine rebel group has been shot dead at his home in Cebu province, police said. Rustico Tan, 80, was shot several times while he slept in a hammock at his home in the town of Pilar in the central Philippines on May 28. Tan left the priesthood several decades ago and joined the National Democratic Front of ...

By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News Published May 30, 2021 4:03pm 80-year-old Fr. Rustico Tan shot dead in his hammock (Pilar Police) PNP Cebu head Police Colonel Englebert Soriano on Sunday vowed to pursue investigation into the the fatal shooting of an 80-year-old former Roman Catholic priest in his home in Pilar, Camotes Island in Cebu. In an interview with GMA News Online, Soriano said the victim, Rustico Tan, was just lying on a hammock in his terrace at Barangay Poblacion. He was then approached by still unnumbered attackers on a motorcycle and was shot several times at about 8 p.m. on ...