BACOLOD CITY – A former coordinator of Karapatan in Negros Oriental was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle at Brgy. Poblacion, Manjuyod town Sunday, July 7.
– A former coordinator of Karapatan in Negros Oriental was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle at Brgy. Poblacion, Manjuyod town Sunday, July 7.Investigation showed that Romano was riding a motorcycle when the assailants fired at him using a .45 caliber and fled.
He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was brought to Bais City District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.Meanwhile, Karapatan-Central Visayas condemned the killing of Romano, who they claimed was an active church member of Iglesia Filipina Independiente and adviser of the Youth IFI.
In a Facebook post, Karapatan Central Visayas condemned the continued attacks against human rights defenders and the helplessness of human rights documenters amid intensified militarization and para-militarization in rural poor communities. “We decry in the highest degree the current administration’s bloody violent technologies of regulation in order to manufacture social consent on its constituency,” the group said.
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