RP's Estrada will be summoned over killing<\/p>\n
MANILA (AFP): Philippine Vice-President Joseph Estrada and
\nInterior Secretary Rafael Alunan will be summoned to give
\nevidence at an investigation into the killing of 11 suspected
\nbank robbers, whose deaths were allegedly planned by police
\nofficials, a senate committee said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The move to invite Estrada and Alunan follows an admission at
\na senate hearing by one of the police generals implicated, Chief
\nSuperintendent Jewel Canson, that he was the \"responsible
\ncommander\" at the time the 11 men were killed.<\/p>\n
However, Senator Rodolfo Biazon said Canson could have
\nreceived orders from an official \"more senior over him.\" The
\nPhilippine National Police (PNP) is under the jurisdiction of the
\nInterior and Local Government Department which Alunan heads.<\/p>\n
Estrada will be summoned in his capacity as chairman of the
\nPresidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC), whose agents and task
\nforce head Chief Superintendent Panfilo Lacson were linked to the
\nshooting on May 18.<\/p>\n
Controversy shook the police hierarchy when police
\ninvestigator Eduardo de los Reyes charged that Canson and Lacson,
\nalong with another police general and a colonel, planned the
\nmurder of the 11 men and made it appear they were bank robbers
\nslain in a shootout.<\/p>\n
De los Reyes said the killing could not have been a shoot-out
\nas police had reported since the men were in handcuffs after they
\nwere shot in two separate vans by policemen.<\/p>\n
Lacson has been ordered to return from the United States to
\nhelp the investigation, while the three other police officials
\nhave gone on leave \"to preclude any perception that they may
\nunduly influence the ongoing investigation,\" said PNP Director
\nGeneral Recaredo Sarmiento.<\/p>\n
De los Reyes' expose is the first such admission by a member
\nof the police force that \"summary executions\" were being done by
\nthe PNP.<\/p>",
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