Murder raps filed vs Sayyaf head, men for beheading 3
06/20/2010 Police have filed multiple murder charges against the Abu Sayyaf leader and his followers over the abduction and killing of three lumberjacks on the southern island province of Basilan two weekends ago. Basilan police director Sr. Supt. Antonio Mendoza yesterday said multiple murder charges were filed also yesterday before the Basilan provincial prosecutor’s office against Abu Sayyaf chieftain Puruji Indama and a number of his unidentified underlings for the abduction and subsequent beheading of Daduh Lumatang, Manuel Lumsag and Elpidio Amimensi, all residents of Barangay Abong-Abong, Maluso town, Basilan. The victims were gathering lumber flitches in Sitio Pali, Barangay Abong-Abong when they were seized by armed men led by Indama at about 3 p.m. last June 11. Later that day, the bodies of Lumatang and Lumasag were found by police and members of the Barangay Intelligence Network who were deployed to locate the victims. Amimensi’s body was found the next day. Meanwhile, Charlie Rieth, the 71-year-old Swiss-born Filipino who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf and was held by the terror group for more than two months before being rescued last Wednesday showed no signs of having been frazzled by the ordeal he went through while in captivity. Unlike other former kidnap victims who took several days or even months to regain the courage to appear before the public or any gathering, Rieth joined friends Friday night at the so-called “Barangay Hanazono” for a thanksgiving party. The party was thrown by Rieth’s friends after they sponsored a thanksgiving mass for him at the St. Ignatius de Loyola Parish Church in Zamboanga City. “I thank my friends not only for this thanksgiving mass but for their support throughout my entire ordeal. I’m very gratified, thankful to all of them for their unwithered support,” Rieth said after the mass. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100620nat1.html |
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