(7th UPDATE) This concludes more than 4 years of litigation of the Supreme Court, marked by controversial attempts to make the lead justices inhibit from the case
Distraught Aetas caught in a war
Feb 11, 2021 3:44 PM PHT
Aetas Japer Gurung, 30, and Junior Ramos, 19, both can t read nor write. They planted taro and corn in their ancestral mountainous village in San Marcelino, Zambales.
They are supposed terrorists now facing life imprisonment, also the first to be charged under the feared anti-terror law.
Their wives, both minors, are in jail, too, for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
The military accuses them of shooting a soldier dead in an encounter with the 73rd Division Reconnaissance company of the military s 7th Infantry Division on August 21, 2020, for which they are on trial at the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court Branch 97.