From the Sun Star-Bacolod (Jun 23, 2023): Police tag NPA as perpetrators of Himamaylan massacre (By TERESA D. ELLERA)
Col. Nhel Patricio, OIC of the 303rd Infantry Brigade, Lt. Col. Reynante Jomocan, Himamaylan City police chief, Himamaylan Mayor Raymund Tongson, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson, and Flosemer Chris Gonzales, RTF6 ELCAC spokesperson, during a joint press conference Thursday, June 22, Talisay City. (Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA photo)
POLICE Regional Office (PRO-6) acting director Brigadier General Sidney Villaflor said Thursday, June 22, that based on the police investigation, it was the New People's Army (NPA) that killed the Fausto family in Sitio Kalingking, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on June 14.
"The facts indicate categorically that members of the NPA committed the killings. We present our case based on evidence and not on hearsay and biased statements from the CPP-NPA-NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front) propaganda machinery," Villaflor said in response to the statement of Butch Lozande, spokesperson of Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) in a media interview on June 20.
In a joint press conference Thursday of the Regional Task Force to End Local Conflict in Talisay City, Provincial Police Director Col. Leo Pamittan claimed that Fernando Hermino of Central Negros 2, Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros, Cebu Bohol, and Siquijor of the CPP-NPA along with 15 other rebels, were the alleged perpetrators of killing Rolly and his wife Emilda and their two minor sons in their house on June 14.
“This is also based on the judicial statements of the two witnesses who came to the police. The suspects and victims knew each other and had conversations before the killings happened,” he also said.
Villaflor, meanwhile, said the statements of Ka Butch manifested his “clear bias and prejudice” against the government and the police, which undermined the effort and hard work of the police in Negros Occidental.
"It must be made clear that despite the categorical assertions made by Ka Butch on his perceived inability of the police to objectively investigate the Himamaylan killings, it must be stressed that he issued his malicious statements prematurely while the investigation is being conducted by the local police," he added.
“Ka Butch obtained his information from erroneous sources, particularly from biased, fabricated accounts aimed at vilifying the army unit in Himamaylan. Hearsay after hearsay was accepted by Ka Butch as ‘facts.’ And he peddled his ‘chismis’ based information as his version of the truth. Unfortunately for Ka Butch, his lies are washed aside by the truth, he also said.
Villaflor further said, "Ka Butch should know by now that the investigation has uncovered that NPA terrorists killed four members of the Fausto family."
On his claim that the PNP readily threw the ball to the CPP-NPA, the investigation of the incident is based on the accounts of witnesses and on facts, Villaflor stressed.
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1964758/bacolod/local-news/police-tag-npa-as-perpetrators-of-himamaylan-massacre
POLICE Regional Office (PRO-6) acting director Brigadier General Sidney Villaflor said Thursday, June 22, that based on the police investigation, it was the New People's Army (NPA) that killed the Fausto family in Sitio Kalingking, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on June 14.
"The facts indicate categorically that members of the NPA committed the killings. We present our case based on evidence and not on hearsay and biased statements from the CPP-NPA-NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front) propaganda machinery," Villaflor said in response to the statement of Butch Lozande, spokesperson of Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) in a media interview on June 20.
In a joint press conference Thursday of the Regional Task Force to End Local Conflict in Talisay City, Provincial Police Director Col. Leo Pamittan claimed that Fernando Hermino of Central Negros 2, Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros, Cebu Bohol, and Siquijor of the CPP-NPA along with 15 other rebels, were the alleged perpetrators of killing Rolly and his wife Emilda and their two minor sons in their house on June 14.
“This is also based on the judicial statements of the two witnesses who came to the police. The suspects and victims knew each other and had conversations before the killings happened,” he also said.
Villaflor, meanwhile, said the statements of Ka Butch manifested his “clear bias and prejudice” against the government and the police, which undermined the effort and hard work of the police in Negros Occidental.
"It must be made clear that despite the categorical assertions made by Ka Butch on his perceived inability of the police to objectively investigate the Himamaylan killings, it must be stressed that he issued his malicious statements prematurely while the investigation is being conducted by the local police," he added.
“Ka Butch obtained his information from erroneous sources, particularly from biased, fabricated accounts aimed at vilifying the army unit in Himamaylan. Hearsay after hearsay was accepted by Ka Butch as ‘facts.’ And he peddled his ‘chismis’ based information as his version of the truth. Unfortunately for Ka Butch, his lies are washed aside by the truth, he also said.
Villaflor further said, "Ka Butch should know by now that the investigation has uncovered that NPA terrorists killed four members of the Fausto family."
On his claim that the PNP readily threw the ball to the CPP-NPA, the investigation of the incident is based on the accounts of witnesses and on facts, Villaflor stressed.
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1964758/bacolod/local-news/police-tag-npa-as-perpetrators-of-himamaylan-massacre
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