By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA News
Published January 2, 2021 5:02pm Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday called for an immediate investigation on the killing of nine members of an indigenous group (IP) in Tapaz, Capiz; and the arrest of 17 others in Calinog, Iloilo by police units. “If the reports I received were accurate, the killings were done tokhang style, with State forces barging into their homes at dawn, under the pretext of serving warrants, and eventually killing them because they allegedly resisted arrest,” De Lima said in a statement. However, the group Pamanggas on Thursday said the nine were Tumandok IPs who were unarmed and non-combatants.
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After she was Red-tagged in 2017 by the local anti-communist group Kagubak, Montejo said that Sancelan made an affidavit before the local police denying that she was JB Regalado, the spokesman of the local NPA group.
But Montejo said that the NPA-related killing is just one of the two angles they are looking into as the motive behind the assassination of the Sancelan couple in a subdivision in Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental in November 15.
Another suspect, according to Montejo, is a co-worker of Sancelan who got mad at her for implementing strict quarantine protocols for members of the local health office of Guihulngan City.
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