40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
40 days after, still no one arrested for killing of Italian priest
MANILA – Human rights groups marked the 40th day since Italian priest Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed in a liturgical gathering at Plaza Miranda, Nov. 26.
Tentorio, an Italian missionary who lived among the Manobo tribe in Mindanao, was shot dead inside the Church compound in Arakan Valley, North Cotabato, Oct. 17.
“It is a coincidence that the day Fr. Tentorio was killed, elements of the 57th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) were just beside the compound. It is a coincidence that the soldiers who saw the gunmen did not go after the killers. It is a coincidence that before he was killed, Fr. Tentorio had been receiving death threats from paramilitary forces,” Nardy Sabino, secretary general of the Promotion of Church People’s Response (PCPR).
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