Barok’s mother seeks help from CHR

By: Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Carmel Loise Matus August 16,2016 - 12:19 AM

THE Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) is now looking into at least 132 cases of deaths of drug suspects in the region that bore marks of extrajudicial killings.

The multiple deaths occurred in just three months from May to August 9 this year.

Leo Villarino, CHR-7 chief investigator, said that he had requested concerned police units to send them a report of at least 40 cases that involved police operations and killings made by unknown assailants.

The latest to seek the help of CHR-7 was Emma Alvaro, mother of suspected drug lord Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro who went to CHR at around 2 p.m. yesterday to file a formal complaint against Danao City policemen for the death of Barok’s younger brother, Medz, who was killed last August 11 during a police operation.

“According to her (Emma), there was an overkill. She basically wanted us to investigate the death of his son,” Villarino said, refusing to divulge other details relayed to her by Emma pending results of the investigation.

Danao City police chief Senior Insp. Alejandro Batobalonos welcomed the probe.

“We are 100 percent willing to undergo investigation aron mogawas kung unsa gayud ang tinuod (so the truth will come out),” he told Cebu Daily News in an interview.

Considered by Danao police as level two drug pusher who could sell 200 grams of shabu (Methamphetamine Hydrochloride) per week with an estimated street value of P2.36 million, Medz and his alleged cohort, Ronnie Cuyos Castro, were gunned down in a buy-bust operation in Sitio Pulangyuta, Barangay Looc, Danao City last week.

Police said Medz was attempting to take over the operation of his brother Barok, who is now detained at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC).

Yesterday, Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III ordered deputy warden Romeo Manansala to put Barok back in an isolation cell following reports that the region’s alleged top drug lord was still in contact with his family despite his detention at the provincial jail.

Davide also planned to put up signal jammers within CPDRC to prevent inmates from getting in touch with people outside the jail facility.

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