She organized missions to look into cases of suspected human rights violations, coordinated with lawyers and helped families of the victims.
“Witnesses heard six gunshots. She was shot first on the back,” Capt. Richard Pajarito, chief of Station 3 of the city police, told the Inquirer on Tuesday.Alvarez, a former political detainee, served as a paralegal for the human rights group Karapatan and as research and advocacy officer of the nongovernmental organization Negros Island Health Integrated Program.“I bleed due to this neverending injustice and violence. I just cannot believe this continuing madness of senseless killings.
Karapatan said she was the 13th human rights worker of the group killed since President Duterte took office in 2016. Alvarez, however, continued to receive “relentless threats, vilification and harassment from the military,” Palabay said. Among the prominent human rights activists killed recently were Elisa “Nene” Badayos and Elioterio Moises, who were gunned down on Nov. 28, 2019, in Bayawan City in Negros Oriental.
In Manila, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said the “attacks against the political opposition and critics of the administration is really getting more intense.”“It seems that the said list has become a hit list of sorts as many of those named are now either arrested on trumped-up charges or worse, ended up being assassinated,” he said.
“The Duterte regime is hell-bent in resorting to the killing of political dissenters in a futile attempt to silence the growing anger of the people against the worsening health and economic crisis resulting from flawed policies and corruption,” Deduro told the Inquirer.
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