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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.
Panay NPA top leader, buddy dead in Iloilo clashes military
Published May 30, 2021 11:06am
Insurgency (file photo) An alleged regional leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines whose group is operating on Panay Island, and his comrade died shooting it out with joint military-police operatives in Iloilo last Friday. In a news release on Sunday, the military said separate clashes resulting in the deaths of the suspects took place in Pavia and Molo towns. According to the military, Reynaldo Bocala alias Bading, the head of CPP s regional finance bureau of Komiteng Rehiyon-Panay (KR-P), fought back with security forces serving warrants for his arrest in Providence Subdivision, Barangay Balabag, Pavia town on May 28.
Commission on Human Rights Human rights group Karapatan has asked the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the killings last Friday night, May 28, of three persons, including two National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultants. Sought to be investigated by the C