• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Two New People’s Army rebels have been tagged by the police as suspects in the summary execution of a farmer on May 25 in Sitio Colihao, Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental.
The victim, identified by the police as Raul Enmacino, 49, was declared dead on arrival at the Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial Hospital in Himamaylan City.
He succumbed to gunshot wounds in the head and upper right portion of his chest, according to the initial investigation of the Himamaylan police.
The victim was working in a rice field near his residence, when he was approached and shot without any provocation by two armed suspects, according to the police.
The wife of the victim also turned over an empty shell of a 5.56mm caliber firearm to the Himamaylan City police.
PLt. Col. Reynante Jomocan, Himamaylan City police chief, told DYHB that the wife of the victim identified the assailants of her husband through photographs presented to her.
Jomocan further said they got information that NPA were staying at the house of the victim prior to the incident.
The victim and his wife also received information that those “traitors” in the NPA, will be killed.
Prior to the liquidation of Enmacino, several armed skirmishes ensued between government troopers and NPA rebels in Sitio Colihao and neighboring sitios in Brgy. Buenavista, Himamylan City, that also claimed the lives of several rebels, over the past several weeks.*
