Palparan is back to the barracks of the Philippine Army—his home
for more than 30 years, where he was trained and where he cloned his ilk. Malacanang
welcomed Palparan’s transfer to Fort Bonifacio and BS
Aquino, who was in Belgium, called it ‘punishment’.
Palparan is back to the barracks of the Philippine Army—his home
for more than 30 years, where he was trained and where he cloned his ilk. Malacanang
welcomed Palparan’s transfer to Fort Bonifacio and BS
Aquino, who was in Belgium, called it ‘punishment’.
BS Aquino claimed his regime has been
‘investigating’ human rights violations and boasted of Palparan’s arrest, “as
if his government initiated the filing of charges against The Butcher,” said
Cristina Palabay, Karapatan’s secretary general. “How can he boast of his task force
on extrajudicial killings when there has been no conviction of perpetrators of
human rights violations?” she added.
Palabay said it is ridiculous where the President pluckshis
statements such as:‘we have adopted a policy that their only deterrence to
crime is the certainty of punishment’. “BS Aquino is certainly out of synch with reality.”
“The back-to-barracks policy for human rights violators among the Armed
Forces of the Philippines is as natural as the rising and setting of the sun,
especially under the BS Aquino regime,” Palabay said. It happened to the Task
Force Kitacom (Kiblawan, Tampakan, Columbio, Malungon) of the 39thand 27thIBPA after the massacre of Juvy Capion and her two sons. “The military barracks
are the safest haven for the human rights violators, not only to shield them
from prosecution but to also to reward them of their act. And this is what the
BS Aquino calls as ‘punishment’,” added Palabay.
“It’s the same as the promotion of military
officials to higher positions despite their record of gross human rights violations
and charges filed in court against them. How can BS Aquino claim that the
previous regime had worse violations of human rights than his regime when he
amply rewarded the Arroyo generals Año, Baladad, and Visaya with plum positions
in the military hierarchy?” she said.
Palabay also cited the case of Jimmy Liguyon whose killer, Alde Salusad, remain scot-free despite a warrant issued against
him two years ago. The local police unit admitted difficulty in serving
Salusad’s warrant of arrest for fear of reprisal from the military. Salusad’s
New Indigenous People’s Army Reform (NIPAR) is attached to the 8th
IB of the Philippine Army.
“Had he not retired, ‘President Good Faith’ would have rewarded
the ‘General Kill for the Good of the People’ a similarly higher position in
the military. For now, Palparancould justbe a ‘nameless’ consultant in the
implementation of Oplan Bayanihan while in his headquarters at Fort Bonifacio,”
Palabay ended.###