Military denounced for ‘lies’ on Grecil

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE

Kabiba Foundation, a child advocate, said Brigadier General Carlos Holganza, chief of 1001st Infantry Brigade, was lying when he said that Grecil was killed by NPA fire. ?It?s a big lie,? the group said, citing testimonies that the soldiers had strafed and ransacked the girl's house.

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Marsman denies knowing military intervention in workers? poll

DAVAO CITY??How could the management of Marsman not have known that their workers are being ferried from their farms and packing houses on work hours to attend ?meetings? where agents of the military are ?lecturing? them about wars and communism??
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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. Read the story (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

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Philippines: Trillanes probe asked to open safehouses, secret detention places

MANILA — The Philippine human rights alliance KARAPATAN welcomed the planned probe on extrajudicial killings of former soldier and now senator-elect Antonio Trillanes.

KARAPATAN Secretary General Marie Hilao-Enriquez said, “We laud Senator Trillanes for this move to put the Arroyo administration to task for the unabated extrajudicial killings.”
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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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