Re: yeea right. military says they kept the teenagers to protect them from npa.but they still refuse to free the boys


"carmina villanoel" <bernardsongco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But Captain Edmond de los Santos, commander of the 503rd brigade of
the Army's 5th Infantry Division, denied that they abducted the
teenagers.

He said they took custody of the children to protect them from being
harmed in sporadic clashes between NPA rebels and government soldiers
along the mountain trail.

"Nobody was held inside the military camp. The children stayed with
[the soldiers] in the mountains for their safety. We got them out of
harm's way," De los Santos told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent
company of INQUIRER.net, by telephone on Tuesday.

He said the two boys stayed with the soldiers in the mountains of
Barangay (village) Baclingayan in Tubo.

Asked why the boys remained in the soldiers' custody for 11 days, De
los Santos said: "The number of days was immaterial. What was
important was the intention to keep them safe

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The boys remained in custody for eleven days which means THEY ARE NOW FREE. Your subject line is misleading YET AGAIN.

Is there any evidence of torture?

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Facts.please.not.rhetoric.

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