[In the news] Burgos abduction witness tags Baliaga in court, Army officer chokes when grilled about April 28 -InterAksyon.com
Burgos abduction witness tags Baliaga in court, Army officer chokes when grilled about April 28
InterAksyon.com
May 10, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Lt. Harry Baliaga, the Army officer implicated in the abduction of activist-farmer Jonas Burgos five years ago, was tagged in court Thursday morning by a restaurant worker as among the seven people he saw dragging away Burgos, who remains missing.
And, when the Court of Appeals justices grilled him as he sat as the first defense witness, Baliaga’s testimony stalled, and he wept briefly when they asked him to account for his whereabouts on April 28, 2007, the day Burgos was seized at the Hapag Kainan restaurant at the Ever Gotesco Mall in Quezon City, sources told InterAksyon.com of the court’s executive session.
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