Tagum Death Squad

Where are the investigative journalists? Where is the police? Where is the outcry at such impunity?

It took a foreign organization, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), to uncover what we suspect: the existence of a vigilante group, Tagum Death Squad.

Not only that, in their investigation and subsequent report, they've uncovered the following too:

1.) That members of the Tagum Death Squad were under the payroll of the local government

2.) That the group was directly under the supervision of the previous mayor, Rey Uy.

3.) That the group was operating with the tacit consent of the local police.

The question now is: who is brave enough to bring those responsible to justice?

Read the full PCIJ article here.