![]() “The armed men hustled Daa, Morillo, Cule, Gabo and Comendo to the back of the house. The five captives fervently denied owning the said items. They crowed to Daa, Morillo, Cule, Gabo and Comendo that the items prove the latter’s involvement in illegal drugs. “The armed men emerged from the house carrying a silver foil and a lighter in the shape of a gun. All the while, the armed men were laughing and mocking Maribeth and Ising: “Ilabas ‘nyona ‘yung Pokemon!Saan mo ba nilagay ‘yung Pokemon?” They also took Marcelo’s collection of metals which the latter painstakingly acquired by scavenging. They forcedMaribeth to take off her silver necklace and rings and hand these over to them. They took a cellphone and tablet device they found therein. The armed men proceeded to ransack the house, rummaging through personal effects and furniture. Cowering inside were Marcelo Daa, Jr.’slive-in partner, MaribethBartolay, and also his Aunt Ising. Realizing that the armed men are policemen, Daa, Morillo, Cule, Gabo and Comendo piteously protested their innocence of any crime. The whole time, the armed men kept accusing the five captives of being involved in illegal drugs. Then, they made Daa, Morillo, Cule, Gabo and Comendo sit side by side on a bench. They fetched Gabo and Comendo who were at the hammock at the back of the house and also tied their hands with electric wire. They pulled electric wire from the ceiling of the hut which they used to tie Cule’s hands. “The armed men handcuffed Daa and Morillo. Gripped by fear, Daa, Cule and Morillo put up their hands in surrender. The men pulled out short firearms and aimed them at the latter. They entered the wooden gate and rushed inside the yard, startling Daa, Cule and Morillo, who were playing pool at a pool table in a hut on one side. “A little after one o’ clock in the afternoon, five men and two women in civilian clothes suddenly arrived. Morillo was there to collect a debt from Daa, while Daa, Gabo, Comendo and Cule were passing time until their six o’ clock workshift in the evening as garbage collectors. “In the afternoon of 21 August 2016, Marcelo Daa, Jr., Raffy Gabo, Anthony Comendo, Jessie Cule and Efren Morillo were in the house of their friend Marcelo Daa, Jr. Here’s excerpts from the petition, the first filed in connection with the government’s dreaded Oplan Tokhang: In the Payatas incident, one of the victims, Efren Morillo, miraculously survived. Horror stories about the Duterte administration’s Oplan Tokhang don’t get less appalling even as they have become a daily happening. Panfilo Lacson at the Senate hearing last week showed the depravity of some members of the police force, the people being paid to protect the public. The murder ofSouth Korean shipping executive Jee Ick-joo inside Camp Crame and the tanim-shabu video presented by Sen. One of the officers was one of his kidnappers! Once inside the Camp Crame office with the anti-kidnapping group, the boy became terrified. She accompanied the boy and his parents to Camp Crame for questioning to help authorities find the kidnappers. ![]() We were reminded of a similar story years ago by anti-crime crusader Teresita Ang See’s about a young Filipino –Chinese boy who was a victim of a kidnap-for-ransom syndicate. ![]() “However, no one agreed to speak with him or even come near him because unbeknownst to him, the police escort he took with him to the area is PO3 Allan Formilleza, one of the policemen involved in the killings.All the members of the community were terror-stricken at the sudden appearance of Formilleza that day.” ![]() In the petition for Writ of Amparo filed by Centerlaw before the Supreme Court last Thursday, it related that a few days after the killings, a television reporter and his crew came to Area B, Group 9, Bgy. There’s a part in the narration by the surviving victims of Oplan Tokhang in Payatas in Quezon City last August 21 that sends chills down one’s spine. Bagares files the first suit in connection with the Duterte administration’s Oplan Tokhang at the Supreme Court. ![]()
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