UA Date: 11 March 2007
UA Title: Daughter-in-law witness to the Dalmacio Gandinao murder case presented to UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Philip Alston shot dead in Salay, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
UA Case: Assassination
Victim/s: Che Che Gandinao
· 56 years old, married
· Female
· A resident of Salay, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
· Daughter-in-law of slain Bayan Muna-Misamis Oriental Provincial Chairperson Dalmacio "Tatay Daki" Gandinao
· Member, Bayan Muna "People First"
· Member, Misamis Oriental Farmers Association (MOFA)
Place of Incident: near the 9th Infantry Battalion Philippine Army detachment in Barangay Guinalaban, Misamis Oriental
Date of Incident: 10 March 2007, at around 3:00 in the afternoon
Alleged Perpetrators: an unidentified man on board a red and yellow motorcycle
Account of Incident –
On March 10, 2007, at around 3:00 in the afternoon, Che Che Gandinao was shot dead by a lone gunman near the 9th IBPA detachment in Brgy. Guinalaban, Salay, Misamis Oriental. She sustained four gunshot wounds and later died in the hospital.
She was presented as a witness to the murder case of her late father-in-law "Tatay Daki" Gandinao during the Philippine visit of the UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Che Che was a member of Bayan Muna, a duly accredited political party that promotes the rights and welfare of the marginalized sectors of the country – the workers, peasants, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, urban poor and other down-trodden by actively pushing urgent people's concerns in the halls of the Philippine Congress.
She was likewise a member of MOFA - an affiliate organization of the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas "Peasant Movement of the Philippines" – a nationwide federation of organizations of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, subsistence fisherfolk, peasant women, and rural youth. KMP is recognized as the most militant peasant federation in the Philippines and cited to among the most significant peasant movements in Asia.
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3. The immediate and proper indemnification of the victims; and
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