By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) would start an investigation into the Feb. 1 ambush that resulted in the killing of three soldiers in an outlying village in Malaybalay city in Bukidnon.
Lawyer Jeanne Ivy Abrina, CHR director for northern Mindanao, said a team of CHR investigators would go to Sitio Kaleb, Barangay Kibalabag in Malaybalay this week to look into the way NPA rebels killed Cpl. Pat Non, Sgt. Owen Yee and Pfc. Niño Christopher Talabor.
Abrina said the investigating team would be headed by lawyer Vic Aleria.
The military earlier cried foul because rebels, armed with high-powered firearms, riddled the soldiers with bullets. Investigators said over 70 bullets were used on the soldiers.
Non was from Barangay Cugman, this city; Yee was from Impasugong, Bukidnon while Talabor was from Sapad, Lanao del Norte.
Abrina said the CHR investigation, independent from the police’s, was in response to President Duterte’s pronouncements when he visited Camp Evangelista on Sunday.
Aleria and his team would determine whether or not the rebels violated international laws and accepted rules of engagement.
She said the results of the CHR investigation would be submitted to the Joint Monitoring Committee of the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front.
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