14 Marines tortured; Erap gives P7 M to victims’ kin
Posted by Mai on 31st July 2007
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14 Marines tortured; Erap gives P7 M to victims’ kin
By Marichu Villanueva and Roel Pareño
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Some of the 14 beheaded Marines were tortured before they were executed, based on post-mortem examination.
Dr. Nilo Barrandino, medico-legal officer, said the first four remains of the Marines that arrived in Zamboanga from Basilan on July 11 were intact but sustained bullet wounds in the head.
Three of them bore a single bullet wound on their faces and another sustained four gunshot wounds in the head and face, according to Barrandino, who was requested by the military to conduct the post-mortem.
He said the second shipment of casualties arrived with four bodies but with only three decapitated heads, while the third box of remains contained seven heads and six torsos.
“These completed the 10 bodies which were all beheaded and mutilated,†said Barrandino, who has documented his examination.
From the 10 beheaded Marines, two were slit of their private parts while another had the soles of both feet stripped off.
Meanwhile, former President Joseph Estrada expressed outrage yesterday at the government’s flip-flop stance in dealing with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) suspects responsible for beheading the Marines killed in the ambush in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan last July 10.
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