While the two other alleged victims of a fraternity hazing in Cavite that led to the death of a San Beda student had surfaced and given their sworn statements, they were not willing to stand either as witnesses or complainants.

Cavite provincial police director Senior Superintendent John Bulalacao on Saturday said his office has deferred submission of their sworn statements to the prosecutor's office because of "our commitment [the two] will neither be treated as complainants or witnesses.”

However, Bulalacao told GMA News Online that law students Ephraim Daniel Lara and Christopher Ryan Maranan – both 21 years old – had "given their statements voluntarily, and their testimony will stand in court."

Also, he said the two told police that after Marc Andre Marcos' death last Monday, they and other neophytes who underwent the initiation rites were held under restraint and not allowed to go home until Friday.

Like Marcos, none of Lara and Maranan’s parents and guardians were aware they were applying to Lex Leonum Fraternitas and were undergoing initiation rites.

In Saturday's interview with GMA News Online, Bulalacao also clarified that instead of 19 students who supposedly underwent hazing on July 29, as earlier reported, there were only nine based on Lara and Maranan's statements. 

The two neophytes surfaced as proof that they are victims, rather than suspects, as initially suggested by the anonymous letter sent to the Marcos’ family and the police.

In an earlier report, Bulalacao said Lara and Maranan narrated the events of the supposed hazing to the police.

'Either with us or against us'

To the family of the San Beda law student who died in the hazing, however, Lara and Maranan should do more than just give their statements on the hazing incident.

“We welcome their [efforts to] surface, but we are still expecting them to talk, not just to tell the police what happened, but to really say who else were there,” Andre Marcos' uncle Atty. Jose Vener Ibarra said in an interview with GMA News Online.

“Kung ganyan ang attitudes nila, we will also charge them as suspects, they may be victims but we can't discount the fact that they may also have done things to Andre,” he said.

“You either cooperate with us or we will throw the book at you. As we have been saying, you are either with us or against us,” he added.

"Sa amin naman, we expected them really to surface, we used social networking to ask them to come out and we got at least 2,000 shares,” Ibarra noted. — LBG, GMA News