(Eagle News) — The National Union of People’s Lawyers said retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. “self-destructed” in his last court hearing on the kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges filed against him.
In a text message to reporters on Thursday, NUPL president Edre Olalia said Palparan, who reportedly maintained his innocence in the disappearance of two University of the Philippines students in 2006, “self-destructed with his contrived and sloppy defense.”
“It’s all bare denial and blames imagined conspiracy against him,” Olalia said.
“He sees red everywhere and recklessly, maliciously and baselessly blames his present woes to what he stubbornly refers to as ‘enemies of the State,’ including human rights lawyers, human rights organizations, farmers’ groups, and the Left. His incessant red scare perceptions as a political dinosaur should have been fossilized,” Olalia added.
UP students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan were seized allegedly by members of the military in Hagonoy.
The orders were allegedly given by Palparan.
