Kaban ni D_BystandeR: KADUDAHANG PAGPATAMBAL

They can say anything dahil patay na 'yung lahat na tinutukoy nila. But even if the dead cannot refute what they are saying but you can still detect if they are telling the truth by applying logic or common sense. 

Of all people, on the side of a combined forces of police and army who staged the "ambush," Superintendent Hansel Marantan is conspicuously absent while media reporters went looking for him because from the looks of it he has the biggest reason why the group was ambushed. He was a known "business partner" of the slain Victorino Siman Atienza, the alleged owner of "bookies" in Laguna until their business relationship turned sour due to a "falling out." And Marantan's brother came into the picture, as the report says, put up some "bookies" in Atienza's turf. And as a "playback" to the past record of this "guy" Marantan, he was one of the three police officers involved in the "killing" of the three suspected thieves in Pasig City in Nov. 2005. The report stated that as recorded in a video "from UNTV news crew it showed the policemen shooting the suspects at close range while they looked motionless inside the car leading to speculation that the alleged car thieves were summarily executed." And he is reportedly confined in St. Luke Medical Center ( the favorite hospital of GMA) with "gunshot wounds" in his hand and feet. A thorough investigation would necessitate that his wounds be verified if those are not self-inflicted wounds. In one of the places in Illinois a case were his wife, two daughters and youngest son (eldest 15 and youngest 10) were murdered by a "smart husband" while on one sunny day he drove their SUV to a secluded place probably on a pretext instead of going straight to their planned destination and treacherously "murdered" his entire family. He claimed in his defense, using a self-inflicted wound in his knee, that his wife shot him first then their three children and finally committed suicide with a shot in her forehead. 

But truth will always come out especially with advanced investigative techniques. About a couple of months ago he was finally sentenced to multiple "life sentences" by the court. I just hope the wounds of Supt. Marantan are not self-inflicted to justify  the "summary execution" committed and staged by the combined blocking forces of Police and Army executioners.