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After the meeting in Quezon City, harassment and threats
against Rodriguez and her family allegedly intensified. On one
occasion, a neighbour reportedly approached Rodriguez and said
to her that Nicolas had approached him, gave him a gun and
ordered him to murder her, but he refused.
Barangay Divisoria is one of the villages where the military
has their Reengineered Special Operations Team, a counterinsurgency
programme which includes deployment of military
men to “integrate” themselves into communities.
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VICTIM: Audie Lucero
INCIDENT: Killing
ALLEGED PERPETRATORS:
Balanga & Lubao police,
Bataan; 24th or 64th IB
personnel
DATE: 12/13 January 2006
AHRC UA-078-2006
PHOTO: KPD
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VICTIM: Cathy Alcantara
INCIDENT: Killing
ALLEGED PERPETRATORS:
Unidentified gunmen
DATE: 5 December 2005
AHRC UP-160-2005
Audie Lucero: Abducted from hospital
Audie Lucero (19) was found dead in Barangay Capitangan,
Abucay, Bataan on 13 February 2006 after meeting with
policemen and military men the day before.
On February 12, Lucero visited his friend confined at the
Immaculate Catalina Medical Center in Balanga, Bataan. While
there, seven uniformed policemen introduced themselves to him
as members of the Balanga Police Station. They questioned
Lucero about his relationship with the friend whom he was
visiting, who had been accused by the police and military of being
a rebel.
When policemen left, another group from Lubao Police Station
arrived, accompanied by military men believed to be connected
with either the 24th or 64th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine
Army. They also began talking to Lucero. After that he went
missing and was found dead the next day nearby the hospital
with fatal gunshot wounds to his back, knee and left hand, and
his body had traces of torture marks.
Lucero was a member of the Youth for Nationalism and
Democracy–Bataan, the youth arm of the political organisation
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya.
In a letter to the AHRC dated 15 November 2006, the National
Police Commission accused Lucero of being a member of the
Marxist Leninist Party of the Philippines who was involved in an
armed encounter with elements of 24th IB. However, the letter
did not give any information about the investigation of Lucero’s
death.
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PHOTO: KPD
Cathy Alcantara: Shot dead at farmers’ conference
The secretary general of the Bataan chapter of the national
political organisation Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya
(KPD), Cathy Alcantara (44) was killed by unidentified armed men
while participating in a conference of farmers from across Luzon
at a resort in Barangay Gabon, Abucay, Bataan, Luzon on 5
December 2005. She was declared dead on arrival at the Bataan
Provincial Hospital.
KPD members had reported threats against them and their
colleagues prior to the killing of Alcantara, who was among those
threatened. KPD organisers had on several occasions been
monitored upon by unknown armed men, who had one time also
asked about the whereabouts of their colleagues.
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