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Thursday, June 28, 2007
Gov’t firm on no ransom, no negotiation policy (4:57 p.m.)
By Bong Garcia
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Major General Nehemias Pajarito, chief of the Army’s first infantry division, said the government remains firm on the “no ransom, no negotiation” policy while efforts continue to recover abducted Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi.
Abductors of Fr. Bossi are in the process of selecting a negotiator to work out for the release of the Italian priest.
Pajarito said no ransom will be paid to the abductors to discourage them from doing it again in the future.
Fr. Bossi, 57, the parish priest of Payao town in Zamboanga Sibugay was seized on June 10 while on his way to celebrate a mass in Barangay Bulawan in the said municipality.
The abductors are reportedly demanding huge amount of ransom in exchange for the release of Fr. Bossi of the Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere (PIME).
Major General Benjamin Dolorfino, chairman of the government’s panel to the now deactivated Ad Hoc Joint Action Group with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, brushed aside the reported ransom demand saying “no contact and no proof of life has been established until now.”(Sunnex) |
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