Military denounced for ‘lies’ on Grecil
The military’s victim?
Activists and human-rights advocates stage a demonstration on San Pedro Street on Thursday to denounce what they claim as the government's intensifying anti-insurgency campaign that victimizes children. The photo in the placard is that of Grecil Buya, the 9-year-old girl from New Bataan, Compostela Valley, who was killed in March during a military raid on members of the communist New People's Army. 
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Children don?t tell lies unlike Gen. Holganza who is a habitual liar – Kabiba
Because the public did not believe the lies and deceptions of the military under Brig. Gen. Carlos Holganza, chief of 101st Infantry Brigade, that Grecil Buya was an NPA ?child-soldier?, he is now resorting to fabrication of lies and more lies by claiming that Grecil was killed by bullets coming from New People?s Army (NPA). He cited a so-called ?Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO)? report that the rebels who positioned at the lower ground started firing towards the soldiers and at the house were Grecil was staying while the rebels were retreating.
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Child advocates to hold rally today for Grecil
Karapatan Southern Mindanao, along with children's rights advocate, will be staging an indignation rally here today to demand justice for Grecil Buya Galacio, the girl killed allegedly by the military in New Bataan, Compostella Valley Province, last March 31.
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