Students of Pines City High School mill around a banner calling for an end to violence in Baguio City after one of their schoolmates, Grade 10 student Kenneth Velasco, was stabbed to death—over 40 times per police forensic reports—by still unknown assailants in an apparent robbery as he was walking to school on December 13. The city government has offered a P100,000 reward to any information on the killers of the 16-year-old Velasco. David Chan