The 19 deaths in Toboso

EARLY morning of Monday last week, a friend told me that 19 persons had been killed in an encounter near her childhood home in Negros. Surely it had to be exaggerated, I thought — or was it a massacre? There had been encounters in Negros in recent years with up to 10 killed, but 19? A staggering number, even for Neg…

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