Philippines 403rd Commander Tender

The 403rd Brigade Commander BGen. Edgardo Y. De Leon called on the Right group to investigate report on EJK on extra-judicial killings and violations of New Peoples Army which exacerbated the plight of Indigenous Peoples IP and the whole people who have been victims of violent acts.On August 22 2019 soldiers of the 89th Infantry Battalion 10th Infantry Division accompanied the relatives and families of three people who had been missing since August 2017.The group intended to go to Barangay Digongan Kitaotao Bukidnon to investigate and confirm whether or not a witness described what he saw as the murder and where the three missing persons were buried Individual.And there they found that what the eyewitness was saying was true because the PNP-SOCO Philippine National Police-Scene of the Crime Operatives unearthed the skeletons or bones of three people whose relatives identified them as Retired policeman Joel Rey Galendez army sergeant Reynante Havana Espaa and IP leader Datu Dionisio Camarullo Havana.An eyewitness a Native told the story of the killing of three victims and said they were buried in a remote area of Barangay Digongan a suburb of Kitaotao.De Leon said this approach to the NPA was clearly in violation of the International Humanitarian Law because they killed non-combatants without regard to war and riots.If they say that those cadavers if they are bones they have been arrested they are more likely to violate the IHL because the arrests need to be taken care of. If the arrests are for example injured or ill get them to the doctor and get treatment. Above all the Native People as civilians cannot be arrested because they do not have direct participation in the armed conflict he added.This witnesss testimony confirms that the CPP-NPA rebels are responsible for extra-judicial killings contrary to the accusations of militant groups De Leon said.He clarified that they did not know what the CPP-NPA was doing in the killing of the three people but he was sure that Autopsy would show how the three killed in Barangay Digongan were killed.Instead he explained that what the ISIS terrorists did was kill their captives and that is what the CPP-NPAs are doing to their captives.Therefore I call on RIGHT the so-called guard of the IHL that they investigate this case and let the people know what the outcome of the investigation is De Leon said.