SATUR OCAMPO DEFACING CPP-NPA-NDF “Division over Political or Armed Struggle”

BAYAN Muna solon Saturnino “Satur” Ocampo defaced CPP-NPA-NDF’s stand against “politicalization” as he vied for 2010 senate seats. Part of which was the forged alliance with the camp of deposed President Joseph “Erap” Estrada last April 16th in Balai ng Alumni, UP-Diliman that later culminated to the launching of the political pool-MAKABAYAN. And as sourced, MAKABAYAN would comprise UNO bets and established partylist groups such as the above, GABRIELA, and ANAKPAWIS. Undoubtedly, this forms part of militant groups and GLORIA oppositionists’ political maneuvering shadow-led by CPP-NPA-NDF Chairman in absentia- Jose Maria “JOMA” Sison and UNO honchos-Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Erap Estrada.

This ofcourse nailed the rumors true; particularly the one involving the CPP-NPA zeroing in on a far subtler approach- the electoral struggle. The idea behind the favoring of electoral struggle over armed resistance is the mimicking of Nepalese Communist’s victorious political revolt that by now mandates its parliament. Subsequently, Philippine democracy under said Reds’ tactic would undergo gradual annihilation through direct implantations of aboveground cadres (such as Ocampo and Teddy Casiño) in mainstream politics.

As speculated, about 168 NPA guerilla fronts would be used to sabotage electoral votes and ballot turn-outs nationwide in order to make sure that Ocampo and Casiño wins the senatorial slate. That is, other than the extended support to UNO banners particularly Nacionalista (NPC) bet Sen. Manny Villar and Liberal Party- Sen. Mar Roxas III. Apparently, Erap settled for the backing-down of BAYAN Muna, ANAKPAWIS and GABRIELA in the partylist elections to give way for his financed and managed Union of the Masses for Democracy and Justice or (UMDJ).

However, more than a handful of cadres in the CPP-NPA-NDF remain appositive with the idea. The Communist Party making its way again in politics would inevitably lead to chaotic rifts and leadership huddle between those loyal to CPP Acting-Chair Benito Tiamzon and JOMA Sison. Furthermore, the debatable aligning of Party-members such as Ocampo and Casiño with infamous TRAPOs sure placed the CPP-NPA-NDF under criticism. This then would advent the battle between the politicize cadres with minimal guerilla experience and those who went fulltime underground lobbying for incessant warfare. And Ocampo being elemental to the pursuit of Sison’s plans had created a formidable nemesis in the likes of Tiamzon.

NPA Served Sacrificial Lambs

The one fighting underground (NPA) represented no less by the Tiamzon couples would have no place in the now grounded electoral struggle. In fact, to gain international recognition and even potential electorates Sison together with Ocampo would have to sacrifice NPA’s cost. This meant riddling surrenderees that would sure downsize Tiamzon’s command. And far worse, a nationwide sell-out of Red fighter’s whereabouts and the pin-down of cadres with standing WOA (Warrants of Arrest) in order to build public trust and recognition. This is a wittingly crafted move by Sison to dismember Tiamzon’s hold specifically his sympathetic guerilla fronts and ultimately regain control of the Communist Party.

Tiamzon Anticipating Sison’s Treachery

However with the progressing of Tiamzon-orchestrated OPLAN LINIS DEMONYO (OLD) in his identified stronghold in Mindanao, it seems clear that Tiamzon had already anticipated traitors in his backyard. He is simply making it hard for Sison to penetrate his loyalists and alongside consolidates the entire NPA to stand against Sison’s electoral struggle.

Accordingly, NPA-Southern Mindanao Command based in Davao had already initiated OLD’s fang against the fallible Leoncio Pitao alias Commander Parago who was sanctioned by Tiamzon’s court for fund malverzation and sexual opportunism. As rumored, Pitao is trying to seek Sison’s support in the “down the rag” resolve of his charges in trade of his loyalty and about two other provincial fronts under his mandate. And just to straighten the erring comrade, Tiamzon had purportedly ordered a team led by Commander Ricardo Moreno under SMRC (husband of one of Pitao’s victims). And as means of justifying grudge, Moreno ordered for the rape and murder of Pitao’s daughter-Rebelyn last March 4. Furthermore, Ocampo and others with him involve in MAKABAYAN are OLD’s next set of targets.

By 2010, the NPA and the CPP Central Committee would be going head-to-head as they both compete for survival.

Ocampo Betraying JOMA

In taking Sison’s orders, Ocampo swallowed angst and mockery from among his BAYAN Muna adherents and CPP-NPA-NDF mainstream leaders. There is neither going back nor “switching of loyalties” left for Ocampo other than an outright jettisoning to Erap’s mercy once Sison’s electoral struggle proved futile. Besides, under Erap’s wing a far higher position awaits for him. As an Erap crony, he sure would have a place beyond 2010. At that time, BAYAN and even the CPP would have no use for him. In fact, Sison would have to settle to his demands.

Satur would not be settling for less, not when it means being a mere Sison “phony” like how Benito Tiamzon remained CPP’s figure head for almost two decades. Besides, betraying a comrade at point blank is far easier than making him “suffer”. That is, as we track back on Ocampo’s orchestrated purging operations under the formerly established AHOS tribunal. AHOS administered the verdicts of killed CPP-NPA traitors in between 1980’s and late 90s under OPLAN Cadena de Amor and Zombie that drove hundreds of fatalities in Leyte and Bukidnon. Remnants of said carnage were the unearthed grave sites that also served as AHOS’ killing fields in Inopacan, Leyte last 2006 and those in Central Visayas.

MAKABAYAN will eventually turn into MAKA-OCAMPO by the end of this year, just as early political campaigning sets-in. By then, Ocampo would have to settle as an Erap lapdog and Sison’s stringed puppet while the CPP-NPA divides because of power thug. And worse, the 2010 elections unfortunately polluted with alarming political ambitions.

Are the CPP and NPA Out on a Senseless Rampage?

“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 Solong Elementary School lifeless and bettered to death.

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 province of Cebu. The joint team from the 78^th Infantry Battalion and the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) dug out the remains of reported summary execution victims of the New People’s Army (NPA) last October 9, 1985.

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 Masbate whose body was first defiled by his NPA assailants and subsequently left to be discovered by his grieving wife.

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 61^st IB, 3ID, PA in Brgy Camindangan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental.

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, Sipalay City.

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.