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ARROYO REGIME IS CONDEMNABLE FOR MAKING FALSE CHARGES
TO COVER UP EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS BY ITS ARMED MINIONS
By Luis Jalandoni
Chairperson, Negotiating Panel
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
07 May 2009
The Arroyo regime is condemnable for letting the Department of Interior
and Local Government and the Philippine National Police fabricate the
false charge of killing a journalist against Prof. Jose Maria Sison,
NDFP Chief Political Consultant, and Gregorio Ka Roger Rosal and offer
the reward of 10 million and 5 millions pesos respectively for
information leading to their arrest.
There are two serious points manifested by the fabrication of the false
charge:
First, the Arroyo regime has no interest whatsoever in going after its
own military and police agents responsible for extrajudicial killings
but it is obsessed with covering up their crimes by scapegoating
revolutionary leaders and misappropriating public funds for the purpose.
Second, the regime has no interest in resuming the formal talks in the
GRP-NDFP peace negotiations because so far it has refused to comply with
the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG).
Up to now, there is no serious investigation of military and police
officers involved in the extrajudicial killing of NDFP consultant Sotero
Llamas and the enforced disappearances of NDFP consultants, their
families and staffers, including Leo Velasco, Prudencio Calubid, his
wife Celina Palma and companions Gloria Soco and Arile Beloy, Rogelio
Calubad and his son Gabriel, Leopoldo Ancheta and Philip Limjoco.
NDFP Reciprocal Working Committee for Socio-Economic Reforms (RWC-SER)
Member Randall Echanis, NDFP consultants Elizabeth Principe, Angie
Ipong, and Glicerio Pernia remain detained on false charges.
False charges continue to be invented and used against NDFP panelists
like myself and Julieta de Lima-Sison and Chief Political
Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Political Consultant Vicente Ladlad
and RWC-SER Member Rafael Baylosis.
The Arroyo regime has not learned its lesson from its failure to put
away Prof. Sison with the false charge of inciting the murder of the
military agents Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara. It mindlessly
continues to fabricate false charges against him even after his
internationally resounding legal victory against the aforesaid false
charge.###
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