PROGRESSIVE group Karapatan yesterday held a lighting rally in front of the Commission on Human Rights office in the region to demand action on the recent killings in Paquibato District.
Jay Apiag, Karapatan spokesperson, said they were alarmed about the recent killings in the region.
“What is our government doing? The CHR is doing nothing while bodies are piling up,” Apriag said.
Around 20 demonstrators joined the protest.
The TIMES, meanwhile, tried to get the statement or reactions from the CRH-IX but the officer-in-charge and the public information officer of the agency were out of the office at that time.
Apiag cited the killing of a farmer in Paquibato district. On May 29, Segundo Jorolan, 52, of Barangay Mapula, Paquibato District was killed at Pasi-an, Purok B in Barangay Mapula, Paquibato.
Based on the investigation conducted by PO3 Noel Fajardo of Paquibato Police Precinct, Jorolan was feeding his chickens outside his house when someone arrived and shot him. Recovered from the crime scene were three fired cartridges of Carbine rifle, and a live ammunition from a .45 caliber pistol. Police are still investigating the case.
Moreover, Apiag has also questioned the efficiency of the CHR, which still has to release a resolution on the “Paquibato Massacre” a year after the tragedy.
On May 30, 2015, three people were killed when a volley of gunfire jolted people awake in a remote village in Purok 7, Barangay Paradise Embac in Paquibato District.
It was previously reported that 69th IB commander, Lt. Col. Rodney Intal, said that Datu Ruben Enlog, tribal leader and chair of Nagkapul, Ramil Enlog and Randy Carnasa were members of the New People’s Army and they were killed in a legitimate miliraty operation.
But Karapatan said the victims were farmers and killed when elements of 69th IB strafed the house of Aida Seisa. Seisa’s 12-year-old daughter was wounded during the attack while her husband and two other children were unharmed.
Seisa is a leader of Paquibato District Peasant Alliance and secretary general of Sabokahan, an organization Lumad women.
More anti-military propaganda/disinformation from a leading Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) human rights front organization, KARPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights).
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