MANILA – Forest ranger Bienvenido Venguilla Jr. was hacked to death in September this year while protecting El Nido from illegal loggers.
According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources , Venguilla was conducting a forest patrol with other rangers when they confronted a group of illegal loggers, who escaped but left the chainsaw they were using.
“Even forest rangers and other government officials working to protect the environment are not spared from this climate of impunity,” the group said. “We have proposed it already with the House of Representatives so we can protect our enforcers,” he said in a phone interview. “Because right not apply for their own guns and they are no match .”
“A total of 26 cases were the result of active police or military combat operations or hits where perpetrators were identified by witnesses,” the group said. “Death squad assassinations that followed the modus of ‘drug war’ operations were observed in at least 11 of the cases.”
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