From: butch@wet.UUCP (Butch Katigbak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Manila Swat kills 14 unarmed suspects!
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:58:50 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco


Subject:      Police Murdered 'Scorpions'
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    Reuter, Manila, April 10 - Police shot dead 14 unarmed suspects
during the rescue of a kidnapped U.S. businessman in in Manila last
month, a Philippine government team investigating the shooting said on
Friday.
    "They all died under mysterious circumstances," National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI) acting director Mariano Mison said by telephone.
    "The injuries they sustained and the bullet marks were too close to
their bodies, which is an indication that they were shot at close range
and not in a shootout," he said.
    Up to 14 people were killed when police blasted their way into
several suspected safehouses of communist rebels on March 18 to rescue
businessman Michael Barnes, seized at gunpoint two months earlier.
    Police have said the 14 were shot resisting arrest and denied
gunning them down in cold blood.
    "Our findings show that...(the) majority of them were shot in the
back and in the head. There was no shootout in the places raided by the
Philippine National Police. The people in those houses were defenceless
when they were shot dead," Mison said.
    Some of the houses raided were let to soldiers, but Mison declined
to say if any member of the military was involved in the kidnapping of
Barnes, a director of the American Chamber of Commerce and Industry in
Manila.
    Mison said the Justice Department would decide whether charges
should be filed against police officers responsible.
    The kidnappers, described by police as members of the Red Scorpion
splinter communist guerrilla death squad, had demanded $20 million for
Barnes' release.

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Subject:      ADB Growth Forecasts
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    Reuter, Manila, April 10 - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) gave the
following projections for growth in real gross domestic product (GDP)
and inflation for 1992 and 1993 (in pct):

                              GDP             Inflation
                       1991  1992  1993    1991  1992  1993
   NICs                 7.3   7.1   7.1     7.7   7.2   6.6
 Hong Kong              4.0   5.8   6.0    12.3  10.5   8.5
 South Korea            8.3   7.3   7.1     9.7   9.4   8.5
 Singapore              7.0   6.1   7.0     3.4   3.0   3.0
 Taiwan                 7.3   7.5   7.7     3.5   3.4   3.7

                               GDP             Inflation
                       1991  1992  1993    1991  1992  1993
 North Asia             7.0   7.8   7.5     3.0   7.0   6.0
  China                 7.0   7.8   7.5     3.0   7.0   6.0
  Mongolia            -18.0  -6.0  -1.5   130.0  50.0  30.0

                               GDP             Inflation
                        1991  1992  1993    1991  1992  1993
Southeast Asia           5.9   6.7   7.1     8.8   8.1   7.1
   Burma                 3.7   4.0   4.1    28.7  26.0  25.0
   Indonesia             6.4   6.7   7.0     9.2   9.0   8.0
   Laos                  4.0   7.1   5.9    10.4   9.5   9.0
   Malaysia              8.6   8.5   8.0     4.5   5.0   5.0
   Philippines          -1.0   2.8   4.3    17.7  13.0   9.0
   Thailand              7.5   8.0   8.1     5.8   6.0   6.0
   Vietnam               3.8   5.0   4.5    78.9  45.0  20.0

                                GDP             Inflation
                         1991  1992  1993    1991  1992  1993
 South Asia               2.7   4.6   5.0    14.6   8.9   8.3
   Bangladesh             3.3   4.7   5.2     7.4   9.1   9.2
   Bhutan                 3.5   4.0   4.6    11.5  10.5  10.0
   India                  2.0   4.3   4.8    14.4   7.5   7.0
   Nepal                  4.0   3.5   4.0    15.4  16.0  12.0
   Pakistan               6.5   6.7   7.2    12.2   8.0   7.0
   Sri Lanka              5.0   5.9   5.6    12.0  11.0  10.0