Recent report pointing against the GLORIA administration on issue of extrajudicial killing did left the CPP and NPA in wide smiles. Other than having been portrayed “politically handicapped”, the armed forces was to go answerable for the crimes the CPP hierarchy had in fact actuated. This is so, not to mention that apart from the purgings during Satur Ocampo’s ascendancy of the Southern Luzon Regional party Committee in late 1970’s to early 1990’s. To which, about 3,000 victims were buried and to be found decades-after in Inopacan Leyte, Bukidnon and parts of Southern Luzon area.
The Davao death squad as enclosed on UN HR advocate and specialist Philip Alston was an inseparable doing of the administration against “suspected” militants. Other than making a thorough research on the factuality of the Davao Death Squad “resurrection”, the rumors was groomed into evidence taking on the trial of GLORIA under the rulings of the Communist Party. Are we this naïve to have “kangaroo courts” and “justice” plagued the very seat of our government? The issue on extra-judicial killings was signed, sealed and “ventilated” into a trial of publicity.
Was there a thorough inquest about the unearthed killing fields in Leyte? Did the CPP and NPA purging operations known as Oplan Venereal Disease reached as far as the Regional Trial Courts? Were there investigative comparisons as to the late 1980’s mass killings or liquidations of the NPA of its comrades to that of the instances and carrying-out of Oplan Linis Demonyo in the areas of Davao and now in the Bicol region? What if the OPLAN VD before was now reconstructed as OPLAN LD? Both with the same horrifying stigma of liquidations and caused no less by intermittent power struggles in the CPP Central Committee. If Romulo Kintanar posed as a threat against Jose Maria Sison before, is Benito Tiamzon his successor?
Else, why haven’t Alston questioned the setback on the charges against Satur Ocampo? The one who ironically got elected in office despite having been filed with multiple charges of murder in his stint as part of the NPA AHOS Committee that oversee the executions of about 3,000 others. In fact if there is one tangible malpractice that the administration seems guilty about is the one where Ocampo bailed-out on a non-bailable offense that had gone far as to his disclosed plans for the 2010 senate seat. That is, if the injury and humiliations were entirely not enough as he gained a seat in the KAMARA. Alston should investigate the haphazard proceeding done with Ocampo’s legal bouts. The UN HR specialist should have nipped the bud out of what Ocampo made as a devious way out of prison.
Is it not plain and outright abuse of human rights when people are held against their will particularly when it involves forcefully giving-in on NPA’s revolutionary tax? That when a local happens to be apolitical when it comes to the Communist struggle he is subjected to relentless threats and even death? Farmers and fisher folks were nonetheless the usual victims of CPP-NPA abuses. This is common knowledge. This should have been the disparity of GLORIA’s administration’s thrust. The fact that the CPP and NPA continue to take arms and build their revolutionary government in fear and with clear disregard of the majority’s safety and will is one handicapped not just of the Arroyo administration but of the past four other presidents starting with Ferdinand Marcos. The only menace of Filipino democratic liberty is the grounding of Communist ideals. This is obviously clear and non-arguable.
Is it not a fact that the insinuated oppression done by the state in power thru extrajudicial abuses was by far exceeded by exploitations and ill-treatment of outlaws on common citizens done no less than by the CPP-NPA? Thus, who then should be tagged enemy of the state? Why then should we brand the government “killers” as it make-use of arms to quell armed groups?
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