Monday, June 27, 2005

Kidnapping potential witnesses

What is with this administration habit of kidnapping potential witnesses or relatives of said witnesses to silence them? Mahusay, Doble, Rashma Hali and now this?

I guess they have a lot of things to coverup, no?

From the Daily Tribune:

Malacañang is taking no chances with key witnesses who can adjourn President Arroyo's direct involvement in the poll fraud that enabled her to stay on in Malacañang.

Not only has Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano gone missing, but that his secretary and girl Friday, Ellen Peralta, as well as a number of Comelec officers who were identified in the tape as having participated in the poll fraud to make Mrs. Arroyo win, has also gone missing.

Peralta, who was mentioned in the tape by Gracillano as the person who would be receiving the P2 million that would come from then senatorial candidate former Sen. Robert Barbers, to fix up the election documents and ensure his poll victory, is reportedly now under the control of the military to ensure her silence on the allegations of electoral fraud, as evidenced by the taped conversations between the President and Garcillano as well as between the poll commissioner and other Comelec officers and officials.

Highly-placed sources from the military establishment yesterday disclosed that since Ellen Peralta dropped out of sight several days ago, she has been held against her will in an undisclosed place by military intelligence agents from the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp).

More here. (Or here if the link to the editorial doesn't work.)


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