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Amante hid behind a tree some 70 metres away from where
the shooting happened. He asked two workers at a nearby
plantation for help; however, they ran away when they saw that
he had been pursued by armed men.
Amante immediately phoned a friend for help. The friend
rushed to his location and took him to the hospital in San
Marcelino. He was later transferred to the James L. Gordon
Memorial Hospital in Olongapo City and underwent surgery. He
was declared in a stable condition the following day; he sustained
nine gunshot wounds.
Agnes and Amante Jr.’s bodies were later found near the
motorcycle, still embracing each other. They were both shot in
their heads.
Tirso Cruz: Labour leader shot after church
Labour leader Tirso Cruz (33) was walking home from a church
in Concepcion, Tarlac when gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot
him dead on 17 March 2006. He suffered six gunshot wounds in
different parts of his body.
Before the incident, Cruz had received a number of threats to
his life following a 2005 protest by labourers in Hacienda Luisita.
Cruz was also actively involved in protesting against the
construction of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway project and
the deployment of soldiers inside the hacienda. In the days prior
to his death, Cruz had led union members and residents in a
protest calling for the withdrawal of soldiers deployed inside the
hacienda and for the expressway construction to be stopped.
Residents inside the hacienda have been
protesting against the quarry operations by
project contractors in Barangay Asturias.
Some 50 Cafgu members and soldiers
attached to the 71st Infantry Division,
which was at that time under Major Gen.
Jovito Palparan, were reportedly deployed
in Barangay Pando, using the project
management’s office as their
headquarters. The soldiers were allegedly
being used to prevent any protest actions
against the management.
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VICTIM: Tirso Cruz
INCIDENT: Killing
ALLEGED PERPETRATORS:
Two wo unidentified gunmen
DATE: 17 March 2006
AHRC UA-101-2006
Family of Tirso Cruz
Nestor Arinque: Gunned down while
fixing motorcycle on roadside
On 7 March 2006 at 11:30am, Nestor
Arinque (39) and his wife were buying goods
at a market in Barangay San Roque,
Mabini, Bohol. He waited for his wife at a
store owned by Tony Salaum, who was
together with two other companions, one
of them was a member of Cafgu in Baragay
Abaca.
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