{"id":78603,"date":"2016-07-14T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78603"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T02:54:38","slug":"escalante-city-mayor-15-others-rapped-extrajudicial-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/14\/escalante-city-mayor-15-others-rapped-extrajudicial-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalante city mayor, 15 others rapped for extrajudicial killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70873\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) has found probable cause to indict Escalante City, Negros Occidental Mayor Melecio Yap, Jr. and 15 others for the deaths of Yap&#8217;s alleged political opponents in 2007 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Yap, together with Richard Patpat, Rolando Catayan, Joel Villarin, Jay Vargas, JR Buhat, Gregory Tuayon, Bernardino Patigas, Hernando Llorente, Rolando Llamata, Lorenzo Perolino, Joey Llorente, Eleazar Navas, alias Renan, alias Bam-Bam and alias Bob Soler will face trial for four counts of murder and one count of frustrated murder.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation found that all the five victims were known supporters of a former political rival of Yap.<\/p>\n<p>In its consolidated resolution, the Ombudsman gave credence to the testimonies of witnesses who disclosed that Yap supplied the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) Command of its logistical needs and alleged that Yap exercised considerable influence over the Command.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sworn statement [by witnesses] is given the presumption of credibility absent any showing that they are motivated by ill-will,&#8221; the resolution said.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said that &#8220;this Office is inclined to believe that that motives for these crimes were political.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Office of the Ombudsman (Ombudsman) has found probable cause to indict Escalante City, Negros Occidental Mayor Melecio Yap, Jr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11605,11147,11607,11606,3443],"class_list":["post-78603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-escalante-city","tag-extrajudicial-killings","tag-jr","tag-mayor-melecio-yap","tag-negros-occidental","mauthors-perfecto-t-raymundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78603","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}