Human rights group Karapatan lambasted a military general for “sowing Palparan-style terror” in Kapalong town.
Genasque Enriquez, a tribal activist leader and Katribu Partylist National Vice Chairperson, was freed Saturday morning after posting bail on three frustrated murder charges before the Regional Trial Court Branch 29 in Surigao City.
Human rights activists said that former military General Jovito Palpatan is the country’s icon of “military brutality and state fascism.”
Government agents arrested on Friday in Surigao City a tribal activist and a former nominee to the partylist Katribu in the 2010 national elections
The military has blamed the bomb explosion on Tuesday in Cotabato City to the terror group, Jema'ah Islamiyah, saying that fragments of the bomb were similar to the signature bomb maker of the group currently believed coddled by a breakaway Moro revolutionary group.