Rehabilitating ‘The Butcher’
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /April 08, 2022 He was described by activists as “The Butcher” during the Arroyo administration for the trail of blood that followed his every anti-insurgency assignment. In 2018, after three years in hiding, retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan was finally tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2006 abduction…