Political killings traced to Philippine military
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The official commission's findings are likely to increase pressure on President Arroyo to take action.
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Bogota, Colombia - The leader of a paramilitary faction involved in peace talks with the government may be among five paramilitary members killed in an ambush on Monday, authorities said.
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55 members of the media in Philippines have been murdered since the reintroduction of press freedom following the ouster Marcos in 1986.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Oct. 12, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. POLICE yesterday filed multiple murder charges against six suspected
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Suspected communist rebels shot dead the leader of a breakaway guerrilla group that entered into a peace agreement with the Philippine government, police said on Monday.
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At least seven people, including the  police chief of the province of Aklan, were killed and 30  wounded on Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a religious  festival in the central Philippines, police authorities said.
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Eight Philippine marines are killed, four of them beheaded, by Islamic rebels in the south, the army says.
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Extra-judicial killings in the Philippines are distressingly high and the military appeared to be responsible for a number of them, a United Nations investigator said on Wednesday.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Honduran police investigated a massacre that left 28 people dead after their bus was strafed by gunfire in what officials suspect was a chilling message from gangs to President Ricardo Maduro and crime-busting politicians.
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JOLO, Philippines  - The United States handed over $10 million in bounties to four Muslim men in the southern Philippines on Thursday for their role in the killing of two leaders of the country's deadliest Islamic militant group.
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MANILA -- Philippine marines clashed with nearly 200 Al Qaeda-linked rebels yesterday, and officials said six government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the biggest battle in a monthlong US-backed offensive.
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Islamic militants killed 14 Philippine marines searching for a kidnapped Italian priest during a major gunbattle, and later beheaded 10 of them, the military said Wednesday.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo praised the military for being more responsive to human rights on Friday, less than a month after the United Nations criticized Manila for failing to stop troops executing activists.
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The United Nations special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings is expected to make public his initial findings Wednesday into political killings in the Philippines.
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Muslim insurgents ambushed a Philippine marine convoy searching for a kidnapped Italian priest and killed at least 14 troops, beheading at least 10 of them, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal  Arroyo praised the military for being more responsive to human  rights on Friday, less than a month after the United Nations  criticized Manila for failing to stop troops executing  activists.
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Deposed Philippines leader Joseph Estrada on Wednesday used the funeral of his movie star friend and defeated presidential candidate, Fernando Poe, to attack the incumbent president.