4 Young Quezon Farmers Nabbed, Charged
with Rebellion
BY BULATLAT
Posted 2:27 P.M., June 8, 2006
Four young farmers are now facing
charges of rebellion at the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Gumaca town in
Quezon province, Dorris Cuario, secretary-general of the human rights
group Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples’
Rights)-Southern Tagalog said in a text message.
Jefferson Paraiso, 15, Kennedy
Avillo, 14, Joey Imperial, 14 and Elmer Imperial, 19, were arrested by
soldiers belonging to the 76th Infantry Battalion of the
Philippine Army in Barangay Pisipis, same town, while gathering coconuts
at around 6 a.m. yesterday.
Cuario said the young farmers were
then forced to carry the bodies of soldiers who were either killed or
wounded in an alleged encounter with New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas
in a neighboring village.
The four young farmers and the
bodies of the soldiers were then boarded into a truck, Cuario added. It
was not known as of press time where the soldiers’ bodies were brought.
Bulatlat
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