Ka Joyce News Today

Vincent Parra, Commission on Human Rights - Negros chief, says police rejected his request for records, which might have made it easier for the commission to validate the information it had gleaned from media about the killing of 6 people tagged by the military as communist rebels

The military asserts that the deaths resulted from an encounter in Sitio Lubi, Barangay Tabugon, Kabankalan

Army Lieutenant Colonel J-Jay Javines, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs Office chief, says those slain were insurgents who have committed atrocities in Negros Occidental