August 27, 1989, 6:30 in the evening. Down South in Mindanao, Juanito, a 25-year old bachelor, had boarded a passenger jeep on his way to church. Suddenly it was blocked by a vehicle loaded with armed men. “A hold-up”, Juanito thought, but the men got hold of him, bound his arms and legs, blindfolded him and threw him the back of the van, the way it is done with pigs for their last trip to the slaughterhouse.
All throughout the night and the next day he was interrogated, beaten and choked by different shifts to force him into confessing of being the triggerman in the Rowe murder, until he lost consciousness. A few days later, Juanito was presented to the press as a prize catch and subsequently condemned to serve a life sentence in Muntinlupa, the huge penitentiary South of Manila...
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