Soldiers, human rights workers recover body of slain Negros rebel

From InterAksyon (Sep 20): Soldiers, human rights workers recover body of slain Negros rebel

The body of a New People’s Army squad leader was retrieved by soldiers and members of the human rights group Karapatan almost a week after he was slain in battle in Toboso town, Negros Occidental.

First Lieutenant Jimrhic Obias, civil military operations chief of the 303rd Infantry Brigade, residents of Purok Dhalia, Sitio Vergara in Barangay Bug-ang found the decomposing body of Herjun Llorente, 32, and immediately reported this to the 62nd Infantry Battalion.

Llorente “was killed during the clash between government troopers and about 17 members of the NPA last September 14,” Obias said.

The military said Llorente, alias “Buboy”, was “the squad Leader of Squad 3 and vice commander of the Sentro de Grabidad Platoon of (the) Northern Negros Front operating in the Escalante- Toboso- Calatrava area.”

Battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Efren Morados said the troops and human rights workers who retrieved Llorentes’ body Thursday were accompanied by relatives of the slain rebel, among them his brother Ely, who identified the remains.

The Llorentes are residents of Hacienda Allig, Barangay Binitin, Murcia,” Morados said.

Morados said the slain rebel’s brother, Hernando, alias “Adoy”, was the former commander of the NPA’s Northern Negros Front. He was captured last year at a joint military and police checkpoint in San Carlos City but was released after posting bail.

“He is currently at large and was reported to have rejoined the group,” Morados said.

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