“Uncovering the Non-Principled Army (NPA)”
There is such a thing as “perfect murder”, and it is re-lived over and again in the Philippine soil. These culprits roam not with hands cuffed or jail bars walled around them. Instead, they walk amongst us even in broad daylight holding us against our will. Their victims scream in deafening silence among shallow graves, yearning for justice to dig them out.
Malicious taints of alleged extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances all pin-pointed to the AFP have been flooding the frontpages and airwaves nationwide. But was there ever an open contention about the CPP and NPA’s staging of summary executions by virtue of their bereave kangaroo court proceeding and even tactical purging intended to purportedly cleanse the Party of inutile members?
Of course, there would always be a charade of denial to top all these but there are hard to rid-off evidences that would prove otherwise. Among these are instances of military civic volunteers and other individuals identified supportive to the government forcefully rubbed out of their homes; tortured and brutally murdered.
Unfortunately, the Party would simply be insinuating that under their rulings these victims were just a bunch of abusive locals and/or were carried out as a tactical operation to counter military operations by ripping-out sources of intelligence information used to best craft their offensives.
Criminals under the constitution are granted with their rights to face an impartial and neutral court. Rapists and murderers alike are not stripped of their basic rights, such as in defence of themselves within the rule of court. Nor do the worse crimes of incest and multiple murders face the end-fate of death. But the revolutionary government instilled by the CPP and NPA track the opposite. Their sole means of punishment is to rob their victims of their very right to exist.
There also include several hours of cross-examinations (interrogations) done through abduction and torture of any individual such as those suffered by Litoy Leguarda, a suspected military informant in Brgy Solong, Can-avid, E/Samar. Last April 5 2008, Leguarda was abducted while attending a benefit dance. A day after he was found hog-tied in
Another case in point of their involvement in summary executions was that of Ryan Samonte who was first castrated before being put to death last August 10, 2008 in Bicol. Theresa Magtanggol, spokeswoman of the NPA Nerissa San Juan Command, directly admitted in a television interview that their forces did kill the government militiaman who is clearly not taking part of an armed hostility at the time of his capture. Isn’t her admission enough proof that the NPA is only doing lip service when they adamantly state that they adhere to the Comprehensive Agreement for the Respect of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and teh Geneva Convention?
These insatiable killings were carried out decades ago, that is to include the recently unearthed remains of the Anugot family in the island
Mario Anugot the lone survivor of said massacre witnessed how his father Mauricio, mother Sari, siblings Peng, Titing, Marlyn and three others were mercilessly stabbed and strafed in their sleep in Sitio Mayana, Baranagy Gaas, Balamban.
Farmers whom the NPA are professing to protect from landlords have also been victims of their dastardly acts. Mark Anthony “Butchoy” Vale, a duly elected Barangay Captain and a farmer, was killed in broad daylight on December 22, 2007 in
A string of this violence also notes the discovered grave sites last March 10, 2008 where suspected victims of New People’s Army summary executions were exhumed by army personnel under 61st IB, 3ID, PA in Brgy Camindangan,
The said remains were of suspected military informants based on Jesumar Tabano’s statements. Tabano is the son of one of the victims identified as Kagawad Proferio Tabano who was abducted in 1989 in Sitio Bangco-Bangco, Brgy Camindanang,
Kagawad Tabano’s remains were identified by his son (Jesumar) based on exhumed clothing wrapped around the carnage buried over 50 feet deep. The uncovered skulls were tied with cloth possibly blinding the victims while fractures found on their skeletal remains were proof that they were viciously tortured after having been killed.
This year alone, there have been numerous accounts of liquidations perpetrated by the NPA’s SPARU unit all across the country. Most of which were done in broad daylight endangering a handful of civilians and when unfortunate targets are unarmed and unsuspecting. Aren’t these blatant displays of murder? Fired guns should stay in the battlefield. Gunning-down a man with nothing but his shirt and pants is a cowardly act altogether.
However, much the NPA tries to mask their dastardly acts with claims of defending the masses and their rights, the fact remains that they deny justice to their victims, commit cold-blood murders and what they do in the countryside, day in and day out, does not give security to the people whom they averred to be oppressed.
