9 Marine ‘plotters’ ordered transferred to Tanay camp
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TANAY, Rizal — (UPDATE) All 28 officers on trial for mutiny for their alleged participation in the failed February 2006 power grab began sharing a single detention facility in Camp Capinpin beginning Tuesday, on orders of Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon Jr.
Eight of the nine accused Marines, including ex-corps commandant Major General Renato Miranda and Colonel Ariel Querubin, and Army Scout Ranger Captain Dante Langkit were whisked off to their new detention immediately after their court martial hearing.
Miranda and two other Marines were previously detained at a staff house in Fort Bonifacio, Querubin and five others at Fort San Felipe in Cavite City, and Langkit, as the Custodial Management Unit also in Fort Bonifacio.
They joined 18 Army officers, including ex-Scout Rangers chief Brigadier General Danilo Lim in Camp Capinpin, where the mutiny hearings are held, said military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro.
The ninth Marine officer, Lieutenant Colonel Januario Caringal, remains confined at the Manila Naval Hospital, but will be shipped to Camp Capinpin as soon as he gets well, said military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro.
“[The transfer is meant] to consolidate the accused, to make it easier to transfer them for their hearings,” Bacarro told reporters.
“Ayaw namin [We don't like this],” Querubin said, when asked to comment on his transfer, as he was about to leave the courtroom.
In a separate interview during a break from the hearing, Miranda said he was told to pack his belongings on Monday evening.
While they were not asked to pack up, Querubin and four others who were detained at Fort San Felipe in Cavite City, knew of plans to transfer their detention, his wife, Maria Flor, told reporters.
“They were not even allowed to get their things in Cavite,” Ms. Querubin said in a text message shortly after the transfer.
Asked if her husband would question the transfer, she said: “I will, not the Marine[s]. They will never complain. It is us, the family.”
Langkit’s twin, Dancel, told reporters his brother had been detained at the CMU for two weeks following his removal from the Intelligence Security Group (ISG), where he was allegedly mistreated.
“He’s doing better now. He has more privileges,” Dancel said, who earlier described his twin’s ISG cell as a “pigpen.”
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