The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has not given up the search for and arrest of retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan as ordered by a Bulacan judge in December 2011 for the abduction of two University of the Philippines students in Bulacan in 2006.
University of the Philippines coeds Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño have been missing for seven years now, but Cadapan’s mother says her daughter’s mobile phone still rings when she dials it, giving her hope the two may still be alive.
The military is now prohibited from issuing a hit list—officially called “order of battle”—with the enactment of a law against enforced disappearances, Malacañang said on Saturday.
China’s new policy to board and expel foreign ships entering waters it claims for its own but which are still the subject of dispute with other countries, including the Philippines, is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin says fugitive ex-Army Major General Jovito Palparan is destroying the image of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The Supreme Court allowed the partylist group of fugitive Jovito Palparan and five other groups to participate in next year’s election. In its en-banc session this Tuesday, the high court ruled that the status quo ante order it issued would also cover Palparan’s group Bantay, the Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD), 1Brotherhood for reform and Oneness-Philippine Guardians for Brotherhood Incorporated, Agapay ng Indigenous People’s Right Alliance (A-IPRA), Ako Agila sa Nagkakaisang Magsasaka (AKO Agila) and 1Ganap/Guardians.
The extrajudicial killings in Mindanao prove that hundreds of Jovito Palparans exist in the military, contrary to the claims of a high military official that the so-called “berdugo (butcher)” was the last of his kind, Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares said.
Retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, infamously tagged as “berdugo” (butcher) by militant activists, is the last of his kind in the military, so says Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, the chief of the Philippine Army.
After the Court of Appeals denied the petition of fugitive retired general Jovito Palparan and his aide questioning their Bulacan court trial in connection with the disappearance of two University of the Philippines coeds, their lawyers have filed a petition with the appellate court to stop the proceedings, claiming that their clients were victims of “persecution, not prosecution.”
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered police and special so-called “cracker teams” to intensify the manhunt for the “Big Five” fugitives even as she admitted that the trail for the country’s most-wanted fugitives had grown cold.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima will confer with authorities on Tuesday to find out their progress in the manhunt for the “big five” fugitives including retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan and former Palawan governor Joel Reyes and his brother.
Calling their excuses “flimsy,” the Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the bid of the lawyers of fugitive retired Gen. Jovito Palparan and two other military officers for an extension of their time to question their prosecution in connection with the disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) coeds.
Will fugitive retired general Jovito Palparan be given the same VIP treatment by the military as a recently “surrendered” fugitive retired Air Force colonel who is a key suspect in the notorious Olalia murder case?
