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But something changed after the brutal broad daylight assassination of the province’s governor Roel Degamo in Pamplona town last March 4. Now, there is a sense of indignation, and resistance, that is bubbling beneath the surface in communities that have lived with violence their entire lives.
Pamplona Mayor Janice Degamo echoed this sentiment shortly after her husband was laid to rest on March 16. In Negros Oriental alone, there has been at least 78 unsolved killings since 2016, according to the combined counts of the Degamo family, the Defend Negros Organization, and Rappler’s count, based on other non-government organizations and news reports.And because there are a number of killings that never get reported, with a majority of cases never making it to court, that number is likely much higher.
And under these eruptive conditions, that meant no one – neither the governor nor average citizen – is safe from violence.Lady Jean Canseco of Pamplona, Negros Oriental, whose husband Jomar, 33, was killed in the massacre, said she is praying for justice for the death of her husband, even if she’s unsure how she’ll get it.
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