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The gunmen carried no luggage except an assault rifle and anti-tank shell, but when one of them whipped out a toothbrush, the two passengers from the far northwest suburbs knew it was no ordinary hijacking.

Safe at home this week after being hijacked Monday, two Christian journalists on assignment for their South Barrington church magazine described the unscheduled flight from Haiti to Miami as a bizarre journey to the edges of fear, faith and unexpected fancy.

”I`ve never been in another hijacking, but I would imagine this was a very rare one” said Robert Wilkins, 32, a reporter from Carpentersville.

The hijacking was the latest adventure in a close friendship between Wilkins and Rev. Larry Kayser, 32, who moved to the northwest suburbs this summer to work for the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington.

Their journalistic careers first crossed paths eight years ago at the Sandusky Register in Ohio, where Wilkins was an award-winning journalist and Kayser a photographer.

Then both quit secular journalism, together attended Grace Theological Seminary in

 

Februay 18, 2006

PNP ARRESTS AND TORTURES 11 BACKPACKERS

Exploring the mountains of the region and visiting the famous tourist destination, Sagada, Mt. Province, was a plan-come-true for eleven backpackers coming from different parts of the country who journeyed to the city with a plan to hitch hike their way to Sagada. Little did they know that their adventure would lead them to their most traumatic and tragic experience in life.

In a personal interview with the hitchhikers, they related that on February 14, 2006, while the eleven backpackers, one of them a woman, were hitching a ride in a dump truck along the Halsema Highway, they were stopped by members of the PNP Provincial Mobile Group and the PNP Regional Mobile Group who were in full battle gear, and who ordered them to alight from the vehicle while brandishing and pointing their long fire arms against them. Their nightmare has just begun. All their belongings were confiscated. Any movement from them, while they were lying face down on the side of the road, brought them punches, kicks from feet wearing combat

A Davao Punk�s Adventure Gone Horribly Wrong


Punk’d. Anderson Alonzo says he saw soldiers electrocuting one of his friends. (davaotoday.com photo by Jeffrey Tupas)

A Davao City resident recalls the arrest and ensuing torture he and 10 other punks suffered in the hands of the police and military in Mountain Province. “We thought we were going to be ‘salvaged�,� Anderson Alonzo recalled. �Everyone was scared. All I could think about was, whatever happens, we wanted our bodies to be taken back home.”


By Grace S. Uddin
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY � Anderson Alonzo is a punk. He likes to dress differently, as punks often do. His life revolves around defying the conventions of mainstream society. He is, in other words, a rebel.

When a friend invited the 19-year-old Calinan resident to a punk concert that promised to feature alternative �do-it-yourself� music — the kind that, according to Alonzo, explores themes ranging from environmentalism to existentialism � he was hooked.


Misadventure. Alonzo says it will take a long time for him to go ou

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