ILOILO CITY — A judge in Capiz province ordered the release of four members of an indigenous people’s (IP) group, who had been arrested during a government raid that killed nine of their fellow tribesmen in December 2020.
The release was ordered by Judge Rommel Leonor, of the Regional Trial Court Branch 21 in Mambusao, Capiz, who also quashed the search warrant issued by a court in Manila against members and leaders of the Tumandok tribe.
The search warrants issued by the Manila court were used in the Dec. 30, 2020 operation by police and military against members and leaders of a group of Tumandok tribesmen who had been tagged as communist insurgents.
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