(Philippines Twitter)-MANILA, Philippines—Retired general Jovito Palparan Jr.—the man activists call “The Butcher”—and several other soldiers were Wednesday slapped with criminal charges, including torture and rape, by the mothers of two University of the Philippines students who were abducted in Bulacan province in 2006.
Cadapan and Empeño were reportedly forcibly taken by armed men wearing bonnets on June 26, 2006 from the house of a certain Raquel Halili in Barangay San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Cadapan is a senior Bachelor of Sports Science student at UP Diliman College of Human Kinetics and a tri-athlete.
One of their lawyers, Ma. Cristina Yambot, said Palparan was included in the suit based on the testimonies of witnesses that he had “direct participation and had even induced the military under his command to commit [the] series of human rights violations against Karen and Sherlyn.
The allegations stated in this Joint Complaint Affidavit clearly established conspiracy, i.e. not only the individual liability of those who carried out the focible taking, torture and rape, but also the criminal liability of the military officers who are impleaded in this case... SHERYLN AND KAREN’S disappearance was planned and carried out, and their torture and rape inflicted by and under the orders, knowledge and acquiescence of Lt. Col. Rogelio Boac, then commanding officer of the 56th Infantry Battalion and Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado, then commanding officer of the 24th Infantry Battalion, both under the direct command, order, and supervision of Maj.
Cadapan-Empeño complaint was the second countersuit filed against top officials for human rights violations after the one filed by the Morong 43 against former President, now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He said the NUPL would be filing in the next few weeks other complaints involving “high-profile heinous” cases.
Cadapan and Empeño were reportedly forcibly taken by armed men wearing bonnets on June 26, 2006 from the house of a certain Raquel Halili in Barangay San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Cadapan is a senior Bachelor of Sports Science student at UP Diliman College of Human Kinetics and a tri-athlete.
One of their lawyers, Ma. Cristina Yambot, said Palparan was included in the suit based on the testimonies of witnesses that he had “direct participation and had even induced the military under his command to commit [the] series of human rights violations against Karen and Sherlyn.
The allegations stated in this Joint Complaint Affidavit clearly established conspiracy, i.e. not only the individual liability of those who carried out the focible taking, torture and rape, but also the criminal liability of the military officers who are impleaded in this case... SHERYLN AND KAREN’S disappearance was planned and carried out, and their torture and rape inflicted by and under the orders, knowledge and acquiescence of Lt. Col. Rogelio Boac, then commanding officer of the 56th Infantry Battalion and Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado, then commanding officer of the 24th Infantry Battalion, both under the direct command, order, and supervision of Maj.
Cadapan-Empeño complaint was the second countersuit filed against top officials for human rights violations after the one filed by the Morong 43 against former President, now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He said the NUPL would be filing in the next few weeks other complaints involving “high-profile heinous” cases.
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