Thursday, March 22, 2007
Cops sue rebel for slay of ex-comrade in Bataan (10:28 a.m.)
MANILA -- Police filed murder charges against a member of the local communist movement in Bataan for the killing of rebel-returnee, the PNP Task Force Usig reported on Thursday.
The victim, 59-year old widow Felisa Timog Ocampo, was earlier reported by the cause-oriented group Karapatan as a local coordinator of the party-list group Bayan Muna but is actually a former member of the New People's
Army (NPA) who had returned to the folds of the law.
PNP Task Force Usig commander Geary Barias said although the Ocampo slay case is not being handled by Task Force Usig, they are assisting the local police in the investigation as well as providing protection to prosecution witnesses.
Ocampo was gunned down last March 2 in her sister's house in Morong, Bataan.
A key witness, who is now under police protection, provided investigators with the identity of one of the assailants and descriptions of the other suspects.
Based on the witness' testimony, the Morong Municipal Police Station filed a murder case against Juanito Carabeo alias Toktok before the Bataan Provincial
Prosecutor's Office last March 16.
Carabeo is listed in police files as an active member of an NPA unit operating in Morong, Bataan. (VR)
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