Published May 31, 2021, 6:02 PM
Department of Justice
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has yet to assess if the deaths of three persons, including two National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants, should be investigated by the inter-agency committee on extra-judicial killings (EJKs), Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said on Monday, May 31.
“The DOJ will conduct a preliminary assessment of the subject incidents,” said Guevarra who is the chairman of the Administrative Order (AO) 35 Inter-Agency Committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture and Other Grave Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty and Security of Persons.
He said he has already given the directive to make the assessment whether the AO 35 committee should investigate the killings of the two peace consultants former Roman Catholic priest Rustico Tan and Reynaldo Bocala as well that of Bocala’s aide, Arguelles Epago.
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