Sunday, June 14, 2015

Ex-mayor linked to the Inopacan Massacre nabbed

From the  Manila Times (Jun 14): Ex-mayor linked to  the Inopacan Massacre nabbed

SECURITY forces arrested over the weekend a former mayor of Jagna town in Bohol for his alleged involvement in the “purging” of suspected military informants within the ranks of the communist New People’s Army (NPA).

Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc, chief of the Public Affairs Office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said Exuperio Lloren, 65, was arrested by joint teams from the AFP and the Philippine National Police in his hiding place in Barangay Pahina, Jagna on strength of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32.

According to Cabunoc, Lloren was charged with 15 counts of murder in connection to the infamous   “Inopacan Massacre” that claimed that lives of at least 67 persons.

http://www.manilatimes.net/ex-mayor-linked-to-inopacan-massacre-nabbed/191784/

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