{"id":186662,"date":"2018-10-23T05:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=186662"},"modified":"2018-10-23T05:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:58:45","slug":"doj-eyes-independent-probe-negocc-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/23\/doj-eyes-independent-probe-negocc-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ eyes independent probe on NegOcc massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109806\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109806 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg 394w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police said approximately 12 unidentified armed men attacked the victims and burned their shanties on Saturday night. (PNA file Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; State lawyers will proceed with their own probe into the circumstances of the deaths of nine workers in a sugar farm in a Negros Occidental over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll not wait for the results of the PNP investigation. If we think that the circumstances require our immediate participation, we shall conduct our own investigation.\u00a0<em>Kaya nakikiramdam muna kami<\/em>\u00a0(We are assessing the situation),&#8221; Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, under Supt. Rodolfo Castil Jr., earlier vowed a thorough investigation into the killing of the victims hired day workers of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), which occupies a portion of land at Hacienda Nene, Purok Fire Tree, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City, Negros Occidental.<\/p>\n<p>Police said approximately 12 unidentified armed men attacked the victims and burned their shanties on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Among the motives being looked into by the PNP is a conflict between the land owner and NSFW farmers claiming the same portion of the land.<\/p>\n<p>The owner donated the land to selected beneficiaries instead of having it passed through the government&#8217;s mandatory agrarian land distribution program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; State lawyers will proceed with their own probe into the circumstances of the deaths of nine workers in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":109806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}