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‘Funeral arrest’ new modus of police, military?
Government forces may have invented another practice against families of victims of deadly police operations: funeral arrest.
Families and human rights workers have been kept inside a funeral parlor in Antipolo City since Wednesday night, March 10, by the Philippine National Police (PNP).
As many as 23 are being detained by the police inside the premises of the Antipolo Funeral Homes.
The families went to the funeral parlor last Tuesday to claim the remains of some of the victims in last Sunday’s bloody police operations across four Southern Tagalog provinces.
Families blocked from claiming bodies of Bloody Sunday victims – lawyer
Mar 11, 2021 12:42 AM PHT
Jairo Bolledo
Police and military in Antipolo, Rizal, barred the families of 4 activists killed in the Bloody Sunday operations from claiming the bodies from the Antipolo Memorial Homes on Wednesday night, March 10, according to lawyer Kathy Panguban of Karapatan Timog Katagalugan.
In a text message, Panguban said state forces were still holding the bodies of Melvin Dasigao, Marklee Makmak Bacasno, and Randy and Puroy dela Cruz of San Isidro Kasiglahan, Kapatiran at Damayan para sa Kabuhayan, Katarungan at Kapayapaan (SIKKAD-K3).
Their bodies have been there since Sunday, March 7. The four were killed in a series of raids in Calabarzon that saw the deaths of 9 activists and the arrest of 6 others.