A mid-level woman executive of the BARMM was gunned down by still-unidentified attackers in Barangay Rosary Heights XI, Cotabato City. | Edwin O. Fernandez/PDI
“We continue our investigation; we are still facing a black wall at this time,” Andungan said in a radio interview.“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this vicious attack on IP women. Many women’s lives were lost and are deprived [because] of these attacks on women and are unacceptable under any circumstances,” she said in a statement.Mendoza said her office is deeply concerned about the repeated attacks on women.
“When IP women are under attack and become targets, not only their lives are shattered but the future of the IP children,” she said.Both Mendoza and Palao are known IP women’s rights defenders and advocates.Mendoza also appealed to her colleagues in the parliament to support calls for justice.
“We call upon the concerned government agencies to conduct a speedy probe and bring the perpetrators to the bar of justice,” he said. Police scene of the crime operatives conduct post crime investigation at the site where a BAMM IP official was gunned down in Cotabato City on Tuesday night.
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