
Last Tuesday February 6, 2010 the military arrested 43 suspicious health workers at
the farmhouse in Morong Rizal. This 43 health workers are suspected to be the
members of the New’s People Army in Rizal. According to Army Spokesman Lt. Col. Marcelo Burgos Jr, The NPA would attack this coming march 29 wherein the will celebrate their founding anniversary. The NPA may also disrupt the 2010 May elections.
The relatives and non- government organization denied that the 43 health workers are part of the New People’s Army. But in the farmhouse the army saw some of deadly weapon and explosives devices including landmine. Some of the workers admitted that they were part of the NPA.
The Commission of Human Rights Chief Leila de Lima said that they had found out that the workers had been subjected to mental torture through long hours of blind folding and saying that the army’s would kill the detainees including their love ones.
In direct contradiction to this, Lt. Col. Burgos denied that the 43 health workers suffered in mental torture while detained in Camp Capinpin. He also added that the detainees were given clothes, food, water and bed.
In some evidence we can conclude that some we guilty because they already admitted that they were part of NPA. But it will go to a legal process and the right of the detainees should be always put first.
---GMAnews.tv---