Ruth Gecaro, who was supposed to provide witnesses to Fr. Lucero's murder, has been abducted
Ruth Gecaro, barangay treasurer of Somoroy, Lope de Vega, in Northern Samar, was supposed to provide witnesses to a fact-finding team on the murder of Father Cecilio Lucero, the parish priest of Catubig, Northern Samar. Two days before the fact-finding team arrived in Samar, Gecaro was abducted by men believed to be soldiers. She remains missing.
Gecaro’s disappearance and the murder itself of Father Lucero, a known human-rights advocate, highlights the worsening human-rights violations in that province.
Read the report by Bulatlat’s Cebu correspondent Ritche Salgado, who covered the fact-finding mission earlier this month in Northern Samar.
Read or download the report of the fact-finding mission. In it, the mission linked the murder of Father Lucero and the abduction of Gecaro to the military’s Oplan Bantay Laya.
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sana ang artikulong ito ay hindi ang siyang magiging dahilan ng pagbago ng pakikitungo at pananaw ng mga mamamayan sa ‘ting mga bayaning sundalo…:)