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==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
'''IHL expert met BIAF-MILF General Staff in Maguindanao'''
'''Ex-mayor gets 6-year jail term'''
*Source: http://www.luwaran.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2377:ihl-expert-met-biaf-milf-general-staff-in-maguindanao&catid=81:news&Itemid=457
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/338702/exmayor-gets-6year-jail-term
*October 22, 2011
*October 23, 2011, 3:14pm
:by Arnold Monsod
:by SHIANEE MAMANGLU




MANILA, Philippines -- The former mayor of a municipality in Sultan Kudarat was sentenced to six years in jail and ordered to pay a fine of P5,000 for alleged lying and falsifying his statement in an official document.


October 22, 2011 - Ms. Cynthia Petrigh, an International Humanitarian Law (IHL) expert met the administrative official of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (BIAF-MILF) in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao last October 19, 2011. Ms. Petrigh, who is French by nationality, is the head of the Civilian Protection Component of International Monitoring Team (IMT) serving as monitoring in the Humanitarian, Rehabilitation and Development.
The Sandiganbayan First division, in a decision promulgated last week, found Fernando Platone, ex-mayor of Esperanza in Sultan Kudarat guilty of violation of Falsification by a Public Officer under Article 171 (4) of the Revised Penal Code.
Toks Ebrahim from the office of the General Staff of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces presented the updates to the IHL expert the eventuality in Basilan in particular the violation of the government troops that they entered the perimeter defense of the BIAF without any coordination. This resulted in 22 members of the Army’s Special Forces (as of press time, the number rose 31) were killed during an 8-hour long firefight with MILF mujahideen in sitio Bakisung, village of Cambug, Albarka municipality in Basilan early morning last October 18. Ten soldiers were also wounded in the encounter. The MILF suffered six martyred and one wounded. .
 
The objective of the meeting between Ms. Petrigh and Mr. Ebrahim was about commitment of the MILF/BIAF to the IHL/HR for the prevention of the violation of the BIAF troops in the ground.
The 54-page decision penned by Associate Justice Rafael Lagos and concurred by Associate Justices Rodolfo Ponferrada and Efren N. Dela Cruz, division chairman, said the "prosecution has proven beyond reasonable doubt that accused Platone stated a false date and condition of the pieces of equipment in the Certificate of Acceptance.''
Petrigh recommended to the MILF leadership to strengthen their capability to a common understanding of human rights laws in times of war the protection of the Prisoners of War (POW).
 
She also asked about the BIAF handling of prisoners of wars.
The case aroused from the issuance of a Certificate of Acceptance by Platone, certifying the delivery of six units of heavy equipment to the municipality, and that these were received by him without defects.
The said meeting arranged and facilitated by Nasrullah Muhammad the point man of the MILF peace panel to the Humanitarian, Rehabilitation and development of the civilian protection component of International Monitoring Team (IMT).
 
But field investigators found out that the certificate contained false date and information, which were in violation of the law.
 
In the certificate, Platone said the heavy equipment were all in “good running and operating conditions” when it was delivered to him on December 29, 1999. His issuance of the certificate then triggered the release of a Land Bank loan and effected payment to Albert Surplus Parts Supply.
 
Prosecution, however, argued that the dump trucks were delivered in February 2000 and not in December 1999, which the ex-mayor had stated in the certificate.
 
The prosecution contended that Platone narrated untruthful facts in the certificate, which serves as a public record, and uses public funds.


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