HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Soldiers Nab Three
Civilians in Pampanga
Jonel Lumabe, Romulos Robinos, and Ryan Supan, residents of Pampanga, are
the latest victims of military atrocities in Central Luzon. They were
taken from their homes by soldiers belonging to the 69th
Infantry Battalion.
BY
BULATLAT
Jonel Lumabe, Romulos Robinos, and
Ryan Supan, residents of Pampanga, are the latest victims of military
atrocities in Central Luzon. The incident was reported to Bulatlat
by Joseph Canlas, chair of the peasant group Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid sa
Gitnang Luzon (AMGL or Alliance of Peasants in Central Luzon).
In a span of three hours, soldiers
belonging to the 69th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army
(IB PA) nabbed Lumabe, Robiños and Supan using a red van with plate number
PNN 216, Canlas said.
Lumabe, a former youth organizer in
the province, was the first to be arrested midnight of Nov. 16 in his home
in Balaba, Dau, Mabalacat. Soldiers then arrested Robiños, a tricycle
driver, at around 1 a.m. of Nov. 17 in his home in Tabon, Angeles City
while Supan, an out-of-school youth, was the last to be arrested before
dawn inside his home in Malpitic (PNR), San Fernando City.
Soldiers barged into the homes of the
three, destroying their front doors, Canlas said.
The three are currently undergoing
interrogation inside the 69th IB detachment in Barangay San
Jose Matulid, Mexico, same province. Bulatlat
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