KIMAY’S DEATH SAD TRUTH OF REDS’ YOUTH EXPLOITATION

Walang pinagkaiba ang kamatayan ni Kemberly “Kimay” Jul Luna sa porsyento ng mga kabataan na nilulumpo ng nakakahibang na druga o di kaya’y walang kabuluhang hazing. Kung iisipin mas kahindik-hindik pa. Buhay ng isang promising youth ang nalagas para sa pulang bandila na hinaharian ni Jose Maria Sison. Nakikibaka ang tulad niyang mga kabataan hindi para sa demokrasya, kung hindi para palitan ito ng Komunistang diktadorya kung saan maghahari lang ang iilan. Ang nakakalungkot pa, isa si Kimay sa mga kabataang nabulag sa kapangyarihan ng armas.

Ang bulok na pananaw ng kaliwa ang tanging dahilan ng pagkamatay ng promising youth na si Kimay. Walang dapat ipagbunyi sa nasayang na buhay ng dalaga. Naaatim ng NPA na mag-recruit ng menor de edad o di kaya’y kabataan sa kanilang grupo habang patabaing-baboy ang mga lider nito sa labas ng bansa tulad nina Sison. Ang taong nagpasimuno sa Komunistang pagkilos, nagsasaya sa immunity nito sa labas ng bansa.
Anong ehemplo ang naisabuhay ni Ka Kimay? Rebeldeng tinalikuran ng taong pinaglalaban niya? Ang maging isa sa mga armadong nanloloob sa mga kawawang sibilyan kapalit ng bigas o pera? Ano ang ikinaiba ng buhay ni Kimay sa mga pusakal na nagtatago sa bundok, may armas at pumapatay. Anong demokrasya ba ang pinaglaban niya?

Kung nailagay sana sa tama ang husay ni Kimay hindi lang kapiranggot na mensahe sa dyaryo ang naging deskripsiyon ng buhay niya. Ito ang ehemplo ng exploytasyon sa NPA. Sa ganitong paraan nakakalikom ang NPA ng mga kabataang gagamitin nitong buhay na bulletvest sa mga bakbakan. Sa kasamaang palad nag-eendorso pa ang NPA na pamarisan ng iba pang kabataan si Kimay. Ang mamatay sa madugong pakikidigma para sa kapakanan ng ibang nakahilata ay hindi kailanman magiging tama.

ARMADONG GRUPO NI SATUR, KINONDENA SA BICOL

Isang daang (100) manggagawa ng Sunwest Water & Electricity Co (Suweco) sa Barangay Solong sa bayan ng San Miquel, Catanduanes ang nawalan ng trabaho nang umatake ang mahigit 20 armadong rebelde sa ginagawang Solong mini-hydroelectric power plant sa nasabing lugar nitong nakaraang Setyembre 7, 2009 lamang. Ayon sa ulat, ang mga rebelde ay umatake pagkatapos humingi ng ilang daang libong piso mula sa pamunuan ng Suweco na kanila namang bigong nakuha mula sa nasabing kompanya.

Ang naturang insidente ay isa nanamang dagdag sa humahabang listahan ng mga krimen ng NPA at mga katunayan na sadyang hindi mapagkakatiwalaan ang New People’s Army at ang liderato ng Communist Party of the Philippines patungkol sa usaping pangkapayapaan. Ang mga kompanyang ito na nagiging instrumento upang magkaroon ng pag-unlad sa ilang barangay sa rehiyon ay hindi dapat inaatake ng mga NPA bagkus ay dapat tinutulungan pa nila dahil ang ginagawang dam ang magiging daan upang magkaroon ng mababang elektrisidad ang ating mga kapatid na Bicolanos.

Ngayon, hindi lamang ang pag-unlad ng San Miguel ang nalagay sa alanganin kung hindi ultimo hanap buhay ng 100 nating kababayan sa Bicol ay kanila na ring dinala sa peligro, ito ay upang makapangikil lamang sa mga kompanyang tulad ng Suweco.

Dahil sa nasabing insidente ay dapat lang na pag isipang mabuti ng gobyerno ang pakikipag negosasyon nito sa mga rebelde sa usaping pangkapayapaan. Ang patuloy na pagpatay at pag atake ng CPP-NPA sa mga walang kalaban laban nating mga kababayan ay nagpapakita lamang ng kawalan ng sinseridad at puso ng CPP-NPA upang tuluyang magkaroon ng kapayapaan at makinabang ang mamamayan.

Bukod dito, nagiging mas malinaw para sa atin na paniwalaan na ang tanging hangad ng mga miyembro ng CPP-NPA ay ang pabagsakin ang ating bansa sa pusali dahil ang kanilang ginawang pag-atake sa Bgy Solong, San Miguel ay malinaw na halimbawa ng tinatawag na economic sabotage.

Sa mga nakaupo sa ating gobyerno at mga miyembro ng Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process o OPAPP, pakinggan nyo nawa ang panawagan na itigil nyo muna ang pagbibigay sa kung ano-anong kondisyon na hinihingi ng mga CPP-NPA at kanilang naatasang mga negosyador hangga’t hindi napapatunayan na kapayapaan nga ng bansa ang kanilang tunay na hangad at hindi pansariling interes lamang.

MURDERER ELIZABETH PRINCIPE, FREE AGAIN! “Fruits of Substandard Justice”

New People’s Army (NPA) in Cagayan rejoices in the height of the controversial released of its leader Elizabeth Principe alias Ka Binay under the implementation of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). JASIG or the supposed immunity guarantees doled-out by the government to pull the CPP-NPA back on the negotiating table is obviously doing more harm than good.

Principe, who is charged for robbery with murder under Branch 30 of RTC Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya left detention in wide smile knowing ofcourse that the cases filed against her would slowly be ruled-out with her newly-acquired “immunity” from the country’s laws. She was also the founder of the feared “Hukumang Bayan” that embrace kangaroo rulings and subjects summary execution all across Isabela and Cagayan.

Frankly speaking, the exploratory talks were for the benefit of both sides (government and the Communist Party). But the way the public weighs it, the negotiations are far advantageous on the CPP-NPA who by now is clearly making the most of the immunities their having. The handcuffed military and police steer clear on engaging armed engagements or even seizure of notorious guerilla leaders like Principe to presumably smoothen the course of the negotiation. However, the witty cadres are doing the opposite. For example the NPA-Negros’ show of force in Negros Occidental that killed 3 civilians and injured 3 others despite the re-enforcement of ceasefire and JASIG.

More or less, the release of Principe signaled an excuse for the CPP-NPA to go indiscriminate firefights that pays no attention to civilian casualties. Besides, being charged with murder and the same won’t hold water in court since their immunities under JASIG are acknowledged by law. They could kill whoever they choose in whichever place they please at whatever circumstances. JASIG simply loosened a mad dog that this government is stupidly trying to tame.

If the CPP-NPA-NDF were to live their supposed objective of getting peaceful reform, they would have totally disarmed themselves and embrace the folds of the law. But that would rather be unlikely. JOMA, for one, would never sell his freedom and live-up to the crimes he had done. He simply knew his crimes were far too horrifying for the public to forgive and forget. Like Joma who had ordered the deaths of thousands of civilian, military and erring cadres; Principe and others like him in the guerilla zones are as well guilty of high crimes like “genocide” in Northern Luzon. Would you really think they’d surrender to get persecuted when they can roam freely?

Setting loose a point-blank criminal is a detesting package wrapped under the thin “linen” of JASIG and the “unrealistic” peace talks between JOMA’s Reds. Is this the kind of peace we ought to achieve?

NPA DEFECTORS BLAME SISON AND TIAMZON FOR CATHEDRAL BLAST

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REAL DEAL INSIDE 2009 NPA DEFECTION

Rift Between JOMA and Tiamzon:

Acting CPP-NPA Chair Benito Tiamzon is plotting to convene another “regodon” amongst the Communist higher-ups.

As sourced, this involves severing ties with Chairman-in-absentia Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, who had been in asylum in the Netherlands for over 22 years.

The plan to unseat Sison was culminated when Tiamzon felt threatened by the move to set aside the armed offensive to give-way for Sison loyalists’ plan to get elected this coming 2010 election.

Infiltrating the government’s inner core with the use of cadres guised as progressive leaders caused a stir on battle-ready Reds like Tiamzon who fears of being casted aside.

Tiamzon served Sison like a 24/7 “canine” hoping that one day he assumes the Communist throne. With Satur Ocampo getting much favors from Joma after having been his former wing-man inside the Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee, Tiamzon could not rule-out the possibility he was being taken out of the picture.

In order for Ocampo to win much votes, the NPA led by Tiamzon needs to be “emasculated”. They were ordered to stand-back and abandon their posts.

Ocampo is unfit to fill the shoes of Tiamzon. He was too sucked-up in politics that his allegiance to the CPP-NPA is at question. The progressive leader dubiously going over the pursuit of his own political career.

With the help of Tiamzon loyalists in Southern Tagalog ang Western Visayas, the hunt for Joma sympathizers in Mindanao and Northern Luzon is on.

The plan was simple, demoralize the Joma believers and raise favorable cadres on Wilma (Benito’s Party wife) to ascend the Chairmanship.

This way, the Tiamzon couple could enjoy their fair share of the CPP-NPA “autocracy”, like a “worth the wait” pay-off after serving as Sison’s moppet for more than two decades.

Surfacing NPA Defectors:

The Tiamzon-led hound on former Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (SMRC) leader-Leoncio Pitao in Davao City for his allegiance to Sison alarmed a handful of cadres.

Primarily. Pitao was a lab rat used to magnify the extent of Tiamzon’s all-out war against Sison sympathizers.

But other than “forcing” cadres to embrace Tiamzon and ditch Sison, a handful of them defected from the CPP-NPA command.

The so-called “defectors” have had enough of the higher-ups bickering. They would not wait to die on either Sison or Tiamzon’s hands.

In fact, the “defectors” believed that their best chances of survival are going against both Sison and Tiamzon.

Like the “rejectionist” faction identified as the Alex Boncayao Brigade led by Arturo Tabara and Romulo Kintanar, the 2009 NPA defectors make-use of urban warfare and even getting themselves associated on terrorist acts.

The NPA defectors wanted to make a statement on the CPP-NPA leadership through conducts of indiscriminate atrocities to include bombing operations in key districts.

Blast in the Ombudsman as well as last Sunday’s near Cotabato Cathedral explosion were all part of the NPA “defectors” show of force. It was fitting since it could be readily guised as part of the Oplan August Moon coup and even that of MILF-SOG retaliatory attacks after all-out government offensives in Maguindanao.

The “defectors” do not wish to deface the Communist Party except for its leadership. Letting the public know the split-up in the CPP-NPA would demoralize the revolutionary cause altogether.

Thus, putting the blames on “usual suspects” serves best to keep the controversial Tiamzon’s “regodon” upshots.

Other than the established MILF BIAFs, guerilla fronts of the CPP-NPA under Far Southern Mindanao region (FSMR) are strategic post machinated to carry-out the bombings in Cotabato City.

So far defectors from the NPA were rooting under FSMR, SMRC, NEMRC (North-Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee) and a portion of the Metro Manila Regional Party Committee (MMRPC).

CPP-NPA PANIGURADONG DOBLE KARA SA PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

Maugong ang balita na ang peace negotiations na balak simulan sa pagitan ng gobyerno at ng Communist Party of the Philippines kasama ang armadong grupo na New People’s Army sa dadating na Agosto ay isang pakana lamang upang “utuin” ang administration ni Arroyo. Sa kagustuhan kasi ng gobyerno na makamit ang tinatawag na “lasting peace” sa ating bansa at patuloy na umusad na ang ating ekonomiya ay handa itong maniwala at bigyan ng pagkakataon ang mga tulad ng CPP at NPA sa usapang pangkapayapaan. Ngunit, hindi nila alintana na ang kanilang kausap ay doble kara pala.

Matagal nang nakabinbin ang peace talks sa pagitan ng dalawang kampo pero hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa rin ito tuluyang umuusad dahil patuloy pa ring nagpapakita ang mga rebelde ng kanilang kawalan ng respeto sa karapatang pantao ng mga sibilyan. Isang halimbawa na lamang ay ang pinakahuling atake na inilunsad ng mga ito sa bayan ng Toboso sa probinsya ng Negros Occidental nitong July 13 kung saan mahigit sa 30 armadong rebelde ang nagpaulan ng putok sa isang Isuzu Canter truck na sinasakyan ng mga sibilyan. Dahil dito ay tatlong estudyante ang agarang namatay sa insidente habang ilan sa kanilang iba pang mga kasamahan ay lubhang nasugatan.

Nakakalungkot na ang gobyerno ay handang ipatupad muli ang Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) para patunayan ang kanilang sinseridad na makamit ang kapayapaan sa bansa pero ang mga NPA ay patuloy pa ding sumasalakay sa ibat-ibang parte ng bansa. Pati mga inosenteng sibilyan ay kanila nang inaatake ng walang kalaban-laban. Paano tayo maniniwala na kapayapaan ang hangad nila kung ganito ang kanilang pakikitungo sa ating gobyerno? Hindi ba ito ay isang konkretong halimba na sila ay doble kara?

Paano mapapatunayan ni Jose Maria Sison, Luis Jalandoni at Fidel Agcaoili na susundin ng mga NPA ang alituntunin sa peace negotiations at sa panahong magdeklara ng pagkakasundo ang dalawang kampo kung ngayon pa lamang ay hindi nila mapasunod ang mga rebelde? Tulad na din ba sila ng mga MILF na may mga paksyon na direktang kumakalaban sa kanilang liderato at ngayon ay naglulunsad na ng sarili nilang mga operasyon? Ito ay hindi imposible dahil may umiikot din na bulong-bulungan na may kumokontra mula sa kanilang hanay sa gaganapin na peace talks at mas gusto na tuluyang maglunsad ng kaliwat-kanang pag-atake hindi lamang sa mga sundalo kung hindi pati na din laban sa mga sibilyan.

Ito ba ang klase ng mga grupo na dapat bigyan tiwala ng ating gobyerno?

ANOTHER COMMUNIST BREAKAWAY: OUT TO TAKE EXTREME MEASURES (“IED in DOJ and DA linked on CPP-NPA”)

The cold war between Communist Party of the Philippines Chairman-in-absentia Jose Maria “Joma” Sison and its acting-Chair Benito Tiamzon stirred dissenters among Central Luzon and Mindanao cadres. Benito was rumored eyeing the Chairmanship vacated by Joma as the latter cowardly seek asylum in the Netherlands. Furthermore, Benito was to share the Communist throne with wife-Wilma who was hailed as the CPP-NPA’s Imelda Marcos. As the two Leftist stalwarts battle it out for the Chairmanship, the CPP-NPA is running on a broken chain of command.

Logistics across Southern Mindanao Regional Commands have depleted in less than six months following the renegade status of its major players-Leoncio Pitao alias Kumander Parago and its Finance leader-Catherine Guino-o Cacdac. The Joma-influenced south is said to be in the mercy of the Tiamzon couples who is battling Sison’s ouster in the CPP Central Committee. The need to alienate the guerilla fronts in Mindanao is the Tiamzon couple’s way of severing Joma’s clout in the south. By the looks of it, Tiamzon calls the shot of who gets to be feed among the Left. Joma is a mere figure head. Sison’s influence remains a threat to the Tiamzon’s ascendancy to the throne but the pull of power concentrates nonetheless on the will of the self-imposed CPP-NPA Chair-Tiamzon.

On the other hand, the cadres in Greater Manila and South-Central Luzon who remained loyal to the CPP-founder Joma were themselves estranged under Tiamzon’s rule. They were placed on the bottom of the Leftists food and cash chain. The cadres were engineered to machinate political ambitions of Tiamzon-raised progressive leaders. Like emasculated men, the cadres in Luzon who were made to live under the doctrine of Mao-Tse-Tung thought had to swallow democratic exploitations and give-up their armed campaign. Like stringed moppets, the cadres in Luzon were forced by the Tiamzon to serve the favor of Bayan Muna’s Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño. Misled that the move to support Ocampo and Casiño are as advised by Sison, the cadres vowed allegiance to the supposed 2010 resurrection of CPP-NPA’s venture in mainstream politics. But as all deceit gets revealed, the cadres in Luzon are now taking extreme tactics to resuscitate the dying Mao-Lenin-Marx ideology.

The blast in the DOJ as well as the IED found in the DA were supposedly part of this contingency measures. The going back to the basics of armed resolved had to be in place. These cadres are determined to pull Communist idealists back to their roots. The legal arena does not work well with the revolution, Joma and the Tiamzons are well aware of it, but unfortunately their selfish ambitions come in the way. The DOJ and DA were deemed potent lab rats to test fire the CPP-NPA hierarchy’s reorientation to the armed struggle.

Evidently, the rumored August Moon was a fitting cover used by the CPP-NPA dissenters to turn the table of blames around. Like the façade used in the Plaza Miranda Bombings, the stir of instability to the reactionary administration is just the needed escape goat of the CPP-NPA to hide its own set of coup d’état and power struggle.

SATUR RECEIVES HALF-A-MILLION FROM ERAP “Making MAKABAYAN an Excuse”

For a shot at better waters Satur is willing to swim the “darkest seas” alongside Erap Estrada. The political “disgust” on MAKABAYAN that nailed the early alliance between Estradas-led UNO and the BAYAN Muna hierarchy was sadly Ocampo’s best tickets to the 2010 Senate. But frankly speaking has Ocampo earned what he believed is his strong stature in terms of public confidence? Most of his stints in the Lower House were walk-outs, random filing of charges against the seated administration with insubstantial evidence, or worse the worn-out calls for people power. Should the people be proud of him when he distances himself from what he claimed “politicking” but rode on “militancy” instead? Ocampo was an elected statesman for nine years after he promised changed and progress to the masses. But obviously those promises were narrowed-down in oblivion.

Like a far ambitious TRAPO, Ocampo backed out from his former stand against Estrada and company in exchange for half-a-million peso. For argument sake, had he persecuted Erap for the deposed president’s multi-million graft? Comparing the half a million peso that had Satur’s mouth shut with Erap’s still uncounted millions, it is quite clear that Ocampo was desperately in need. As if the Php 500,000 was worth his entire career in BAYAN Muna. Was Ocampo that cheap? And was Estrada that naïve to take Satur in UNO without prior rationalization? Erap should have learned a thing or two with what Ocampo had done with GLORIA. It was public knowledge that Ocampo wanted to make an altar for GLORIA during the oath taking in EDSA Shrine after the victorious second wave of People Power. However, Ocampo was among those who quickly trashed GLORIA the minute she was in Malacañang.

Ocampo’s so-called broad alliance with other anti-GLORIA groups in the country was beneficial no less to his senatorial aspiration. Tapping the UNO block that now earns the highest 2010 presidential surveys even if it means turning-down majority of his militant comrades was worth the angst. Just take a look at how Erap’s money machinated the Labor Day rallies into a MAKABAYAN pre-launch. Apparently, the initial 500K was good enough to gather and feed a total of 300 persons in Central Luzon who posed as fitting audience and bait to support Ocampo-Casiño tandem in the nearing elections.

MAKABAYAN was the best excuse to bury BAYAN Muna for good. That is, as Ocampo and Casiño trod down a far disturbing attempt at politicking. Seriously, people are not alarmed with TRAPO malady affecting other Upper House neophytes. What people should arm themselves against were “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. Ocampo and Casiño are out with their true skins- “manggagamit” and “nagpapagamit”. Other than these two, they are ofcourse men who still staunchly support the advent of Communist tyranny in the land. Jose Maria Sison, the Chairman-in-absentia of the CPP and NPA had extended his support for MAKABAYAN and the people behind it for practical reasons that Ocampo and Casiño would surely make JOMA God by 2010.