Palparan, 8 others to be indicted for kidnap of sibling farmers


Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) —The Office of the Ombudsman on Friday (July 24) ordered the indictment of retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and eight others for the 2006 kidnapping and illegal detention of brothers Reynaldo and Raymond Manalo in Bulacan.
The brothers, both of them farmers, were kidnapped in February 2006 in San Ildefonso, Bulacan for being suspected members of the communist New People's Army (NPA).
After managing to escape their captors in 2007, they claimed that they had been tortured.
According to the Ombudsman, the concerted acts of the perpetrators showed that they agreed to commit the felony and decided to pursue it.
Palparan, whom human rights activists call "The Butcher," was accused of ordering the arrest of the two.
Palparan himself was arrested last year by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for the kidnapping of two University of the Philippines students — Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan — who remain missing.
He and his co-accused, which include Master Sgt. Rizal Hilario and seven members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) face two counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
The CAFGU members were identified as Michael de la Cruz, Marcelo "Madning" de la Cruz, Jose de la Cruz, Maximo "Pula" de la Cruz, Roman "Puti" de la Cruz, Randy Mendoza, and Rudy Mendoza.
Hilario and the CAFGU members were also ordered dismissed from service for grave misconduct.
Source http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/07/25/Ombudsman-indicts-Palparan-8-others-over-the-kidnapping-of-Manalo-brothers.html

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