Five more persons were also charged with multiple counts of murder over the 2018 Sagay City massacre, the prosecutor’s office announced.
Aside from the two primary accused, Assistant State Prosecutor Ferdinand Fernandez said that the five persons charged were Dario Dayanan, Edgar Cabiles, Jethro Danoso, and two others only known as Regan and Klark.
“The five failed to attend the preliminary investigation and submit counter-affidavits,” explained Fernandez who assured that he gave them opportunities to respond to the allegations against them.
The multiple murder charges have been filed against seven persons before the Sagay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Negros Occidental in September last year after Fernandez found probable cause to indict them based on the murder complaint filed by the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Fernandez was the one who conducted the preliminary investigation of the multiple murder complaint filed by the PNP against National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) members Rene Manlangit and Rogelio Arquillo.
PNP later filed an amended complaint before Fernandez and included the five other respondents.
The case concerns the Oct. 20, 2018 killing of nine NFSW members inside Hacienda Nene in Sagay City, Negros Occidental.
The victims were allegedly enticed to join the NFSW and were manipulated by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) to occupy the property as part of Oplan Bungkalan and Okupasyon.
Fernandez conducted the preliminary investigation of the case from April to September in 2019 after the Sagay City Prosecutor and the Region VI Regional Prosecutor inhibited themselves from handling the preliminary investigation.
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