Households of victims of the Maguindanao bloodbath show their calls at a memorial park in Basic Santos Metropolis the place a few of them had been buried, throughout a commemoration ceremony. —Picture from NUJP
COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — A tip from civilians led to the arrest of a police officer accused of involvement within the notorious Maguindanao bloodbath in 2009.
Police authorities in Maguindanao del Norte arrested in Parang city on Monday afternoon Patrolman Datunot Mangelen Kadir, also called Datu Nor Kadir, 48, of Barangay Poblacion, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur.
In line with Lt. Andres Samantilla, deputy police chief of Parang city, mentioned Kadir was visiting a relative in Parang’s Barangay Making, a village simply beside the regional headquarters of the Police Regional Workplace within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Area in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
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Armed with an arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court docket (RTC) Department 221 in Quezon Metropolis, dated April 21, 2010, law enforcement officials negotiated for Kadir’s peaceable give up at 9 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 3.
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Kadir, an energetic member of the Maguindanao del Sur police workplace, didn’t resist arrest.
Colonel Eleuterio Ricardo Jr, appearing Maguindanao del Norte police director, mentioned the police have obtained a tip from involved residents, together with some kin, about Kadir’s presence in Barangay Making.
“Police authorities had been alerted of his whereabouts following a tip from a involved citizen and enchantment from his kin for his peaceable give up,” Ricardo mentioned in an announcement.
Kadir is presently residing in Barangay Talisawa of Datu Abdullah Sangki city, Maguindanao del Sur, the place he’s on task.
The federal government has provided a P250,000 reward for info resulting in his arrest.
Kadir was amongst these charged with 57 counts of homicide in reference to the Maguindanao bloodbath in Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman of Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur in November 2009 that left 58 folks lifeless, 32 of them media practitioners.
The physique of a 58th sufferer was by no means discovered.
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Ricardo mentioned that regardless of police efforts to find individuals with warrants, particularly in relation to the 2009 bloodbath, the provincial police workplace solely realized of Kadir’s whereabouts by means of the tipsters.
