Commission on Human Rights (PNA) LEGAZPI CITY - The Commission on Human Rights in Bicol (CHR-5) Wednesday condemned the latest attack by suspected members of the New People's Army against government troops doing a rescue mission in Albay recently. Lawyer Arlene Alangco, CHR Bicol regional director, said the assault against two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 31st Infantry Battalion last Monday in barangay Cotmon, Camalig town, was also an attack on the country's peace and stability. "(The) attack on the security sector is an attack on the peace and stability of the country, and the people they have sworn to serve and protect," Alangco said. Privates John Paul C. Adalim and Mark June D. Esico, who were buying supplies for the search and rescue operation of the crashed Cessna aircraft in Albay, died on the spot after they were shot multiple times in a market in barangay Cotmon, said Capt. Frank Roldan, 9th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office (DPAO) chief. Rold
LEGAZPI CITY - The Commission on Human Rights in Bicol (CHR-5) has issued a resolution asking the National Police Commission here to file long-delayed administrative and criminal cases against four members of the Daraga town policefor killing three suspected drug pushers during a drug sting in February 2019 in Daraga. The resolution obtained by the Philippine News Agency on Monday said CHR investigators, led by lawyer Laurain Ampongan-Marcaida, found out that Lt. Linus Dominic Lopez, Master Sgt. Evan Orayan, and Corporals Christian Verdillo and Annaliza Casulla committed human rights violations during the operationsin Barangay Binitayan onFeb. 22, 2019. It said the Daraga police office was uncooperative in providing official investigation and ballistic examination reports and inventory of evidence seized from the crime scene. The cops allegedly failed to comply with the three-witness rule, where three witnesses must be secured not only during the inventory but at the time of the warran