“I could see that she was still alive and tortured before she was killed.”
The words of a grieving mother, Emma Tirado,
the mother of Cindy Tirado, 28,
who died during an encounter with the military at dawn of April 15 in Tagum City, Davao del Norte Philippines.
Cindy Tirado, with a codenamed ‘Jill,’ is an alleged deputy secretary of Guerrilla Front, Sub-Regional Committee 2 of Southern Mindanao Regional Committee ( SMRC).
They should have arrested her and filed charges for her offenses. If she was hit and still alive, they could have let her live and give her a fair trial,”
The mother Emma Tirado, told reporters at the wake of her daughter here on Wednesday, April 17.