EXHUMED. Members of the Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO) of the Bohol Provincial Police Office check the exhumed body of a member of the New People's Army (NPA) identified as "Ka Willy". The body was dug up after another NPA fighter captured in an encounter in Sevilla, Bohol last month revealed to the 47th Infantry Battalion and the Philippine National Police the burial site. (Photo courtesy of 47th IB CMO)
Authorities in Bohol exhumed on Thursday a decomposing body of a suspected member of the New People's Army in Barangay Rizal, Batuan town in Bohol, an Army officer said.
The body of a certain "Ka Willy" who is also known as "Dax" and "Ar-Ar", 43, was recovered at around 8 a.m. in Sitio Tubod Soso by members of the Bohol Provincial Police Office’s Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO) and the 47th Infantry “Katapatan” Battalion.
1st Lt. Elma Grace Remonde, civil military operations officer of 47th IB, said the body of the suspected NPA rebel was discovered after Crisologo "Ka Sam" Guimaras, a suspected terrorist who was captured during the encounter between the troops of the battalion and NPA members in Sevilla town last June 26, revealed to them the burial site.
“Upon hearing from him (Guimaras) that Ka Willy was buried somewhere in Barangay Rizal, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the 47th IB proceeded in the area for exhumation,” she said.
Rizal Barangay chairman Rolando Pataca and some members of the media in Bohol witnessed the exhumation of the remains around 200 meters away from the captured enemy's lair in Batuan.
Guimaras told authorities that Ka Willy was the vice squad leader of Squad 3, Bohol Party Committee led by Domingo Compoc or “Commander Cobra”.
Based on accounts, Ka Willy wanted to apply for a leave sometime in 2019 so that he could see his family in Negros for it was already nine years since he left them and joined the armed movement in the mountains.
However, Compoc allegedly rejected his request to go home together with some of his companions.
Remonde said authorities could not ascertain which province in Negros Island is Ka Willy’s address but they are now investigating his place of origin based on the revelations of Guimaras.
The Army officer said Ka Willy could not have gone home to see his family alone as he was not capable of taking a trip without a companion, considering that he could neither read nor write.
Investigators are now checking if Ka Willy shot himself in August of 2019 out of desperation or was murdered.
The SOCO team is working to establish the true identity of the dead rebel.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109223
The body of a certain "Ka Willy" who is also known as "Dax" and "Ar-Ar", 43, was recovered at around 8 a.m. in Sitio Tubod Soso by members of the Bohol Provincial Police Office’s Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO) and the 47th Infantry “Katapatan” Battalion.
1st Lt. Elma Grace Remonde, civil military operations officer of 47th IB, said the body of the suspected NPA rebel was discovered after Crisologo "Ka Sam" Guimaras, a suspected terrorist who was captured during the encounter between the troops of the battalion and NPA members in Sevilla town last June 26, revealed to them the burial site.
“Upon hearing from him (Guimaras) that Ka Willy was buried somewhere in Barangay Rizal, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the 47th IB proceeded in the area for exhumation,” she said.
Rizal Barangay chairman Rolando Pataca and some members of the media in Bohol witnessed the exhumation of the remains around 200 meters away from the captured enemy's lair in Batuan.
Guimaras told authorities that Ka Willy was the vice squad leader of Squad 3, Bohol Party Committee led by Domingo Compoc or “Commander Cobra”.
Based on accounts, Ka Willy wanted to apply for a leave sometime in 2019 so that he could see his family in Negros for it was already nine years since he left them and joined the armed movement in the mountains.
However, Compoc allegedly rejected his request to go home together with some of his companions.
Remonde said authorities could not ascertain which province in Negros Island is Ka Willy’s address but they are now investigating his place of origin based on the revelations of Guimaras.
The Army officer said Ka Willy could not have gone home to see his family alone as he was not capable of taking a trip without a companion, considering that he could neither read nor write.
Investigators are now checking if Ka Willy shot himself in August of 2019 out of desperation or was murdered.
The SOCO team is working to establish the true identity of the dead rebel.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109223
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