Rallies in front of PNP camp on massacre ruling banned

THE National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) on Tuesday said rallies would not be allowed in front of Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City for the promulgation next week of the decision on the Maguindanao massacre case. gate (We front “Ayawrinnaminsaharapng namin,pwedesilasa don’t of the want gate, they them can to sidewalk demonstrate rally in on the sidewalk),” Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas, NCRPO chief, told reporters in a news briefing.

Rallies would only be allowed on the sidewalk outside the camp as long as they did not disrupt the flow of traffic, Sinas said.

Such protocol, according to him, would apply to both supporters of the Ampatuan clan and those of the victims. powerful Many members clan were of accused the politically of carrying out the mass killing. On December 19, the promulgation of the ruling on the Maguindanao massacre case will be held in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City. Sinas said a lockdown would be implemented in six jails in Camp Bagong Diwa from December 18 to 19. All visitors of the prisoners would not be allowed inside the six jails on those dates.

“Hindi mu na, par am aka-focus kamisa promulgation (Visitation is not allowed for us to be able to focus on the promulgation),” Sinas said.

The NCRPO vowed to protect and provide security to the judge and the prosecutor.

The decision will be handed down by Jocelyn Solis Reyes, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 221 of Quezon City.

Sinas said the security measures for the judge and the prosecutor would not stop on the day of the promulgation as they would continue until they feel “normal.”

“We have constant contact with them parahindisila ( so that they will not) feel threatened,” Sinas said.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said it would pursue arresting more than 80 suspects still at large behind the Maguindanao massacre.

The PNP’s acting chief Lt. Gen. Archie Francisco Gamboa has assured the bereaved families and relatives of victims of the infamous massacre of 2009 that efforts are ongoing and being intensified for the arrest of the suspects who are still at-large, PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac told reporters in a news briefing in Camp Crame in Quezon City.

Meanwhile, no threat has been monitored so far, the NCRPO said.

The camp will be secured by 120 members of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion and 100 members of the Civil Disturbance Management.

Additionally, more than 50 policemen will also help in ringing the camp.

Fifty-eight people, including 32 journalists, were killed in the massacre, which is seen as the world’s most violent crime committed against members of the media and other civilians.