Relatives have asked for the release of Tayuan Dimaloloy, one of the primary suspects in the May 10, 2003 blast in Koronadal City that left 10 people dead and 30 others wounded, after he was hospitalized for a serious kidney disease.
| "None of the victims is dead anymore, and he don't feel good, so you should let him out..." |
His sister-in-law Maimona Dimaloloy asked on Monday the help of the Mindanao Truth Commission, a citizen-led body investigating the series of explosions that rocked Mindanao last year, in working for his release from jail. Dimaloloy, an alleged member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, was arrested on May 23 last year in his hometown Midsayap, North Cotabato in connection with the May 10 blast. Maimona said Dimaloloy was taken to the hospital in Koronadal days ago after complaining of severe stomach pain, which physicians diagnosed to be a kidney disease. "He's gravely ill at this moment I'm speaking to you. He was confined for medical treatment under tight security watch," she said.
| Sounds like kidney stones. Very painful, though prob'ly not as painful as being shredded by high explosives... |
Dimaloloy was accused of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder, along with Junnie Mangadta and several others. Mangadta, a confessed MILF field commander who surrendered in September 2002, told MindaNews in December last year at the provincial jail in Koronadal that he was just a "fall guy".
| "Yeah! I been framed! The real killer wuz... it wuz... [thud!]" |
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