Vincent Parra, Commission on Human Rights - Negros chief, says police rejected his request for records, which might have made it easier for the commission to validate the information it had gleaned from media about the killing of 6 people tagged by the military as communist rebels
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – The Kabankalan City Police Station has denied the request of the Commission on Human Rights-Negros for some pertinent records on the killing of a group of six in Sitio Lubi, Barangay Tabugon, Kabankalan City, on September 21.
Parra said the owner of the funeral parlor where the local government unit brought the deceased’s remains gave him information that could benefit the commission in conducting its independent investigation.by the Army’s 47th Infantry Battalion in an alleged clash in the upland community of Kabankalan City in the southern part of the Negros Occidental province.
Ka Andrea Guerrero, spokesperson of the Armando Sumayang Jr. Command of the New People’s Army Southwest Negros Guerrilla Front , said the group of 6 was allegedly fired at by the military troopers while onboard a motorcycle owned by Gaitan, contrary to the claims of the military. Gen Gaitan, Ruben’s sister, told Rappler of their dismay at the military who tagged his brother as one of the members of the New People’s Army , and was “brutally killed.”
The assertion was in response to the military’s claim that the kin of the slain tricycle driver was unaware of the connection to the rebel group. Various rights groups and individuals, including Negros bishop Gerardo Alminaza have called an independent probe into the killing of a group of 6, to uncover the truth behind the incident.
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