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Bernabe Buscayno vs. Military Commisions No. 1,2,6 & 25

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. BERNABE BUSCAYNO, JOSE MA. SISON and JULIET SISON, petitioners, vs. MILITARY COMMISSIONS NOS. 1, 2, 6 and 25, GENERAL FABIAN VER, GENERAL FIDEL RAMOS, LIEUTENANT COLONEL VIRGILIO SALDAJENO, CAPTAIN MELCHOR A. ACOSTA and REVIEW BOARD OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-58284 | 1981-11-19

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

Bernabe Buscayno alias Commander Dante and Jose Ma. Sison alias Amado Guerrero, alleged subversives classified as "PKP/HMB/CPP/MAMAO and Traditional Armed Group personalities," were wanted by the authorities since 1971.

In Department Order No. 610 Undersecretary of National Defense Efren I. Plana fixed P150,000 and P50,000 as the prizes to be paid to any person who kills, captures or causes the killing, capture or surrender of Buscayno and Sison, respectively, or who furnishes information directly leading to and which is the proximate result of their killing or capture. (p. 96, Rollo of L-47185)

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