Scribd
Upload
659 views1 page

Mark Chua: Mark Welson Chua (Died Sometime Between March 15-18, 2001) Was A Student of The

Mark Chua was a student at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines who exposed corruption in his school's ROTC program. He received death threats after his report was published. He went missing after agreeing to a security training meeting and was later found dead, tied up and wrapped in plastic, in a nearby river. His death led to a law removing ROTC as a graduation requirement in the Philippines. One suspect was convicted and sentenced to death for his killing while three remain at large.

Uploaded by

Jan Paul Salud Lugtu
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
659 views1 page

Mark Chua: Mark Welson Chua (Died Sometime Between March 15-18, 2001) Was A Student of The

Mark Chua was a student at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines who exposed corruption in his school's ROTC program. He received death threats after his report was published. He went missing after agreeing to a security training meeting and was later found dead, tied up and wrapped in plastic, in a nearby river. His death led to a law removing ROTC as a graduation requirement in the Philippines. One suspect was convicted and sentenced to death for his killing while three remain at large.

Uploaded by

Jan Paul Salud Lugtu
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

Mark Chua

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Welson Chua (died sometime between March 1518, 2001) was a student of the University of Santo Tomas whose death is widely believed to be linked to his expos of alleged irregularities in the Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Unit of the university. His death became the catalyst for the passage of Republic Act 9163 or the "National Service Training Program (NSTP)" Law, which removed completion of mandatory ROTC as a precondition for graduation for male college students. Chua took his elementary and high school education at Saint Jude Catholic School and his collegiate education at the University of Santo Tomas. He was a member of his ROTC Unit's intelligence monitoring team. He spilled out to UST's official publication The Varsitarian about his first-hand knowledge of corruption in the unit. This resulted into the relief of then commandant Major Demy Tejares and his staff. Chua received death threats after his revelations. The new ROTC commandant advised him to undergo security training at Fort Bonifacio. On March 15, 2001, he was supposed to "meet" an agent but he was never seen alive again. Three days later, his decomposing body wrapped in a carpet floated in the dirty waters of Pasig River, with his hands and feet tied and face wrapped in cloth and packing tape. The autopsy report showed sludge in his lungs, indicating he was alive when he was thrown into the river. On March 31, 2004, Arnulfo Aparri, one of the four suspects in the killing of Chua, was sentenced to die by lethal injection, and was ordered to pay 50,000 Philippine pesos to the victim's family. The whereabouts of the three other suspects (Eduardo Tabrilla, Paul Joseph Tan, and Michael Von Rainard Manangbao) remain unknown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Chua

You might also like

pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy