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December 4, 2007 - Task Force 211 formally convened
and held its maiden meeting at Room 206, DOJ, Padre
Faura, Manila, with almost all of the member-agencies
represented.
December 5, 2007 - As part of the Task
Force’s intensified advocacy campaign, the undersigned,
as Task Force Head, issued a press statement expressing
strong reaction to the erroneous statement of the human
rights group Karapatan that not a single suspect in
extrajudicial killings cases has ever been convicted,
and provided a list of cases where at least eight (8)
persons were convicted and sent to jail in six (6)
different cases involving murder of media personalities.
December 10, 2007 - Task Force 211 issued an
invitation, through the media, to interested civil
society, religious and political organizations to
participate positively in the Task Force’s endeavors.
December 10, 2007 - Task Force 211 formally wrote
a letter-invitation to Philippine Alliance for Human
Rights Allegiance (PAHRA), the Catholic Bishops
Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the Institute of
Human Rights of the UP College of Law, and The Asia
Foundation, seeking their respective involvement and/or
contribution towards addressing the issue of
extrajudicial killings in the country.
December 10, 2007 - Task Force 211 likewise wrote
several members of the House of Representatives,
soliciting their support to the rewards system
devised by the Task Force in carrying out its mandate.
The support would be in the form of a One Million Pesos
grant from their Priority Assistance Development Fund to
the Philippine National Police (PNP), the implementing
arm of the said system.
December 12, 2007 - Second meeting of Task
Force 211. Task Force members were respectively assigned
to forge engagements with media, political groups and
religious and other sectoral stakeholders for their
participation in the activities of Task Force 211.
December 19, 2007 -
Task
Force 211 forged a Memorandum of Agreement with Lyceum
of the Philippines College of Law for the active
monitoring of some extrajudicial killings cases pending
before different Metro Manila courts and prosecutors’
offices.
December 19, 2007 - Third meeting of the Task
Force.
December 19, 2007 - The undersigned as
Task Force chair, wrote Professor Philip Alston, United
Nations’ Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, telling him that he ought to
fairly report about activities of the CPP-NPA that
actually make a mockery of the government’s efforts in
addressing the issue of extrajudicial killings in the
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