'Bakit ngayon pa ang national government nakialam na wala na si governor?' Pamplona Vice Mayor Joel Remolano asks.
NEGROS ORIENTAL, Philippines – Ending violence on Negros Island, a hotbed of insurgency and political violence, has been a long-running struggle.in a brazen daylight massacre on March 4, the people of his town have “run out of fear,” according to Joel Remolano, Pamplona’s vice mayor.Thousands gathered in the town of Siaton, about an hour away from Dumaguete, to pay their last respects to the slain Degamo.
People in the crowd, who wore “Justice for Roel Degamo” shirts, wailed as Degamo’s body was loaded into the hearse. Hundreds of police and military personnel were posted at every intersection along the route to Siaton. Around the province, more checkpoints were set up, and military presence was intensified upon orders of national authorities following Degamo’s assassination.
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