A former high-ranking New People's Army (NPA) leader was
nabbed by a joint military and police team in Bohol
Saturday morning.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs office
chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc said that Exusperado Lloren, 65, was arrested by
virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila
Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 32 for the charge of 15 counts of murder in
connection with the infamous “Inopacan Massacre” in Leyte in 1985 which claimed
the lives of suspected military informants among rebel ranks.
Lloren was the former secretary of Eastern Visayas Regional
Party Committee.
Cabunoc said the grave sites where the victims were buried
were later pinpointed by the survivors and relatives of the victims at the
vicinity of Mount Sapang Dako of Barangay Culisihan, Inopacan, Leyte on Aug. 27, 2006.
With the assistance of the Philippine Army units in the
area, the government unearthed more than 67 skeletal remains piled in a shallow
pit.
Despite his involvement in criminal activities, Lloren
joined politics in 1997 wherein he was first elected as barangay chair of
Pagina, Jagna, Bohol .
The accused is also facing charges of nine counts for
violation of Republic Act No. 3019, otherwise known as the “Anti-Corrupt and
Practices Act” and one count for Estafa at the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=772262
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