1992 IBON PHILIPPINES Data Bank and Research Center MELITON The following is an account of the TRAGIC DEATH OF KA MEL, the union president of Nestle Philippines Cabuyao Factory, in 1989 The witness swore the assassin's target was MELITON ROXAS, the labor union president in Nestle Cabuyao. She recalled how the gunman who entered the roadside restaurant of that afternoon of 20 January 1989, immediately approached Meliton and shot him at close range with a .45 caliber pistol. Meliton died on the spot. He was only 34. His wife Norma was then peddling foodstuff for him. She could hardly believe her husband had been MURDERED. She even approached him after he slumped in the floor. "Stop playing around. You're too old for that," she said. But she was suddenly shocked to see his bloodied t-shirt. "Oh God, my husband has been shot!" she cried, "Help us! Help us, please!" Nobody saw the gunman again. But people believe he too was killed. Gunshot was heard minutes after the killer had run across the Nestle compound. About 200 meters away from the plant's security outpost, people saw a man dying. Nobody tried to help him for fear that they might get involved in the killings. Some said the security guard shot the gunman while he was trying to board a motorcycle. But many witnesses swore armed men firing at Roxas's killer. By the time the police arrived, the assassin's body was nowhere to be found. The armed men had taken the body away, dumping it in a back-up vehicle. There was hardly ...
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