Soldier shouted ‘Finish them off,’ before shooting B’laan tribe leader’s wife, sons — witness

From the Philippine Daily  Inquirer (Oct 22): Soldier shouted ‘Finish them off,’ before shooting B’laan tribe leader’s wife, sons — witness

These were allegedly the words of one of the soldiers accused of killing the wife and two sons of B’laan leader Dagil Capion, as overheard by relatives, last Thursday, when they rushed to Capion’s home and found his two surviving children, Becky (not Vicky as earlier reported), 5, and Riza, 10, inside the hut, where their mother’s and brothers’ body sprawled. Melanie Capion, Dagil’s sister-in-law, said she and other relatives and neighbors were nearing Dagil’s house in Sitio Alyong in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur when they overheard the soldier – who was speaking in a loud voice to his colleagues. Capion said she shouted back and appealed to the soldiers not to harm Dagil’s two daughters. Becky had a minor gunshot wound while Riza was unscathed, she said. Capion said they arrived in the nick of time to save the two daughters from the fate that befell their mother and two brothers. Major Jacob Obligado, chief of the 10th Infantry Division’s Civil and Military Operations (CMO) Battalion, said “we must be deliberate in our gathering of facts.” “This is the exact reason why we are conducting the investigation, to determine the truth and ensure that justice should be served,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by text message....

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