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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
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MANILA – An anti-crime watchdog is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to create a special task force of policemen and prosecutors to investigate the deaths of innocent individuals dubbed “collateral damage” in the government’s anti-narcotics campaign.
“Nagkaroon kami ng initial assessment na mukhang marami nga talagang nadadamay na tinatawag nga ni President Duterte na collateral damage and we call collateral victims – iyung mga nako-cross fire, mga napagkakamalan,” Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption founding chairman Dante Jimenez told radio dzMM.
Included in the crackdown’s mounting collateral victims, he said, were five teenagers who died as masked gunmen chased and fired shots at a suspected drug dealer in Phase 8, Caloocan city last week.
The shots hit the youngsters who were partying at a house near the shanty of an alias Junior Santor.
Gunfire also killed Santor’s mother Christina and his pregnant common law wife, Analyn Dayamla, inside their house which was allegedly used as a drug den.
Jimenez said only one of the slain teenagers previously dabbled with drugs, according to his relatives, while the other four minors had no criminal record. (ABS-CBN News)
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