CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – The Army’s 58th Infantry Battalion discovered last week a mass grave in Claveria, Misamis Oriental that reportedly contains the remains of people summarily executed by the New People’s Army (NPA).
Lt. Dandy Melmida, 58th IB spokesman, said soldiers exhumed from the mass grave in the hinterland village of Aposkahoy the remains of four people, some of them hogtied and buried with their personal belongings.
Melmida said a former rebel tipped off the military on the location of the mass grave. The NPA reportedly executed 36 people found guilty by its “kangaroo court†sometime in 1986.
Melmida said another mass grave was discovered last April 21 in Barangay Farmbugas, also in Claveria, where the skeletal remains of 12 people were unearthed.