Saturday, June 23, 2007

Local news

A police investigator from elsewhere was kidnapped and tortured to get information...he escaped when they stopped to pay the toll on the highway.

Reports said Barlis’s abductors wanted him to confess his involvement in the killing of the two children of Boy Pascual, a mayoral candidate of Gapan City....

Barlis believed that politics could be behind the incident since he is close to Eto Natividad, the current mayor of Gapan City

For non family members, it refers to this incident LINK
and an update HERE.

Although most of the hype in the US papers is about "extrajudicial killings" of leftists sympathizers of the NPA, a lot of the political killings in this area have more in common with Mafia fights over territory than with revolution.

For headlines/updates checkLINK and LINK...

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