Are there vigilantes out there who are taking the law into their own hands?
“According to police records, at least 57 bodies believed to be those of victims of summary execution were found dumped on city streets in 2013,” reports Julie M. Aurelio in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report noted: “The number far exceeds the total of 42 convicts put to death by the state since the Marcos dictatorship up to the abolition of capital punishment in the country in 2006.”
SEE: SUSPECTED ‘SALVAGE’ VICTIM FOUND IN QC
It’s disturbing to know that, as the report put it, “December alone saw the discovery of 10 bodies, three of them found in different locations on Christmas Eve.”
Meanwhile, Insp. Elmer Monsalve, chief of the Quezon City Police District homicide section, revealed that most of the “salvage” victims turned out to have criminal records. He said, “Sometimes, it’s just within their own circle (of) criminals out to get each other because of personal vendettas.”
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