FUNERAL RALLY FOR ALYCE CLAVER. Some 7,000 people attended the burial rally for Alyce Omengan-Claver on August 5 in Bulanao, Tabuk, Kalinga. Alyce was murdered on July 31 in an ambush. She was survived by husband Chandu and their three children (Far right photo).During a funeral rally, several speakers condemned this brutal incident and called for a stop to political killings and for justice to be served to the victims’ families. Click here for related story. -Photos by Abigail Bengwayan/CPA Public Information Commission

INDIGNATION RALLY HELD FOR THE KILLING OF ALYCE CLAVER. More than 150 members of the Kalinga Medical Society (KMS) and Kalinga Apayao Religious Society Association (KARSA) led a motorcade starting at 7:00 this morning in Bulanao, Tabuk. Before the motorcade, a program was held at the Bulanao junction, the site where Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver and his family was ambushed yesterday, July 31. Click here for related story. -Photos by Abigail Bengwayan/CPA Public Information Commission

STOP POLITICAL KILLINGS! In spite of heavy rains, more than 100 members of peoples organizations held an indignation rally led by CPA on July 31 in Baguio City to express condemnation to the continuing political killings in the country. CPA seeks for justice to the killing of Alyce Omengan-Claver and the assassination plot against her husband Dr. Chandu Claver.
.-Photos by Sarah Dekdeken/CPA Public Information Commission

FAMILY CLAVER'S CAR. Photos of the vehicle used by the Claver Family when they were ambushed at 6:45 AM on July 31, 2006. These photos were taken after the ambush. -Photos by CPA-Kalinga Chapter

Only two months after the political assassination of CPA Regional Elders Desk Coordinator and Bayan Muna-Kalinga Vice Chair Rafael Markus Bangit on June 8 in Isabela province, the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo regime has again pulled the trigger on another political activist, Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver, Jr on July 31 at around 6:30 AM. Knowing no mercy, the killers, believed to be military operatives, also targeted Dr. Claver’s 42 -year old wife, Alyce, and their 11-year old daughter, Cassandra by ambushing their van with high powered rifles in Bulanao, Tabuk. While Dr. Claver and Cassandra survived the shooting, Alyce was not able to survive after struggling for life for five hours from multiple gunshot wounds. Dr. Claver, 49 years old, has incurred two gunshot wounds in the left arm and chest. Their daughter Cassandra was deeply traumatized by the incident and is now into complete silence. A bystander, Janice Ewag, a 23 years old student and part of Tanudan tribe, also incurred two gunshot wounds in the hips.

Fact Sheet on the attempted murder of Dr. Claver; Murder of wife Alyce Omengan-Claver

An open letter from the Claver family

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