Aquino's counter-revolutionary policy in Southern Mindanao
murders 3 civilians in less than a month*
murders 3 civilians in less than a month*
Rubi del Mundo
NDF - Southern Mindanao
14 September 2010
All in less than one month, three civilians -- Reynaldo Labrador and Julius Tamondes in Paquibato, Davao City, and Vicente Felisilda in Mawab, Compostela Valley Province -- were murdered by military and paramilitary forces in Southern Mindanao; belying GRP Pres. Benigno Aquino III's human rights thrust in the AFP.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao strongly condemns the continuing policy of extra-judicial killing of civilians by the new Aquino regime. Aquino has only contradicted himself when he vouched for his armed forces' commitment to champion human rights parallel to the extension of the US-sponsored and dictated 'counter-insurgency' Oplan Bantay Laya II. The latest body count proves one fact: unleashing the OBL is an explicit endorsement to the contemptible acts of Berdugo Palparan and other OBL II models. Aquino has only unmasked himself as no different from his predecessor, the criminal Gloria Arroyo, for destroying civilian lives and livelihood in the guise of the regime's counter-revolutionary policy.
1. August 12, Tamondes was murdered in his farm during a 'pangayaw' in Paquibato staged-managed by the 1003rd Brigade-AFP under Brig. Gen. Eduardo del Rosario, and his stooge Confidential Agent Ruben Labawan;
2. September 3, Labrador was murdered violently in front of his family inside his home in Paquibato by two unidentified AFP men and 69th Infantry Battalion-AFP paramilitary member Roberto "Kulot" Repe. Repe is in the roster of Lumad paramilitary vigilante that Labawan endorsed for training to the 10th ID-AFP last June 14;
3. September 9, Felisilda was murdered in Barangay Malinawon, Mawab, Compostela Valley Province, following the numerous death threats he received from the AFP deployed in the area.
All these murders happened amid the intense fascist operations in Southern Mindanao which is considered a priority region for Oplan Bantay Laya. Similar to other extra-judicial killings, all the victims are civilians; and have been threatened earlier, and arbitrarily tagged by the military as "supporters" of the revolutionary movement -- or like Tamondes, killed in an indiscriminate AFP-supported tribal vendetta to sow terror in the Davao City hinterlands.
In Paquibato, Labawan's 'pangayaw' killed Tamondes while another farmer and church leader, Angelino Gentorales was able to escape last August 12. Days after, Labawan's pangayaw attempted the life of lay worker and farmer Dodo Cabatuan. The 'pangayaw' prompted many residents to evacuate in the district's center. The militarization in Paquibato victimized passenger motorcycle drivers who were either interrogated or mauled while some businessmen were accused of being NPA supporters. With the murder of Labrador, the military wanted to instill fear among Paquibato residents.
CA Labawan's documents confiscated August 6 have further exposed del Rosario's design in Paquibato and in creating liquidation squads among the vigilante Lumads in line with Palparan's "shock and terror" campaign -- so much more so that del Rosario's minions included the Palparan-trained 69th IB and the 84th IB-AFP now based in Davao City.
Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya emboldened B/Gen. del Rosario to resurrect the failed 'Alsa' Lumad -- an AFP psywar scheme that del Rosario used at the onset of the detested Arroyo regime. Similar in 2001, del Rosario recruited, armed and financed Lumad vigilante and fanatical groups to pit lumads and lumads, and against settlers in Davao hinterlands; and deliberately distorted the lumad tradition on avenging justice. He used the vigilante Alamara as surrogate AFP force in its proxy war against the New People's Army. Like in 2001, del Rosario's design failed to decimate the revolutionary forces, instead, it has only earned the people's ire with the string of human rights violations it brought about, among others, the barbaric murders in Paquibato and the bloody 2002 Pangyan Massacre in Davao City.
Since 2006, the 10th ID-AFP's deployment in Southern Mindanao has resulted to an average of 100 persons daily whose rights have been violated, among others, mauled, tortured, illegally detained and interrogated, threatened, communities conscripted, evacuations, homes being ransacked. Victims of extrajudicial killings in the region already totalled more than a hundred including the despicable rape-slay of Rebelyn Pitao. In Paquibato as in Compostela Valley, and other Southern Mindanao hinterlands, the heavy militarization only served one purpose under Oplan Bantay Laya: alienate the people from their lands and livelihood and protect the corporate local and foreign plunderers.
Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya now has only worsened the already sorry condition of the Filipino masses; and has already violently snuff out the lives of civilians Labrador, Tamondes, and Felisilda in Southern Mindanao. We call on the people to be vigilant and throughly frustrate Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya. Genuine justice can only be achieved through the intensification of the people's democratic revolution.
* Url:http://theprwcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/aquinos-counter-revolutionary-policy-in.html
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao strongly condemns the continuing policy of extra-judicial killing of civilians by the new Aquino regime. Aquino has only contradicted himself when he vouched for his armed forces' commitment to champion human rights parallel to the extension of the US-sponsored and dictated 'counter-insurgency' Oplan Bantay Laya II. The latest body count proves one fact: unleashing the OBL is an explicit endorsement to the contemptible acts of Berdugo Palparan and other OBL II models. Aquino has only unmasked himself as no different from his predecessor, the criminal Gloria Arroyo, for destroying civilian lives and livelihood in the guise of the regime's counter-revolutionary policy.
1. August 12, Tamondes was murdered in his farm during a 'pangayaw' in Paquibato staged-managed by the 1003rd Brigade-AFP under Brig. Gen. Eduardo del Rosario, and his stooge Confidential Agent Ruben Labawan;
2. September 3, Labrador was murdered violently in front of his family inside his home in Paquibato by two unidentified AFP men and 69th Infantry Battalion-AFP paramilitary member Roberto "Kulot" Repe. Repe is in the roster of Lumad paramilitary vigilante that Labawan endorsed for training to the 10th ID-AFP last June 14;
3. September 9, Felisilda was murdered in Barangay Malinawon, Mawab, Compostela Valley Province, following the numerous death threats he received from the AFP deployed in the area.
All these murders happened amid the intense fascist operations in Southern Mindanao which is considered a priority region for Oplan Bantay Laya. Similar to other extra-judicial killings, all the victims are civilians; and have been threatened earlier, and arbitrarily tagged by the military as "supporters" of the revolutionary movement -- or like Tamondes, killed in an indiscriminate AFP-supported tribal vendetta to sow terror in the Davao City hinterlands.
In Paquibato, Labawan's 'pangayaw' killed Tamondes while another farmer and church leader, Angelino Gentorales was able to escape last August 12. Days after, Labawan's pangayaw attempted the life of lay worker and farmer Dodo Cabatuan. The 'pangayaw' prompted many residents to evacuate in the district's center. The militarization in Paquibato victimized passenger motorcycle drivers who were either interrogated or mauled while some businessmen were accused of being NPA supporters. With the murder of Labrador, the military wanted to instill fear among Paquibato residents.
CA Labawan's documents confiscated August 6 have further exposed del Rosario's design in Paquibato and in creating liquidation squads among the vigilante Lumads in line with Palparan's "shock and terror" campaign -- so much more so that del Rosario's minions included the Palparan-trained 69th IB and the 84th IB-AFP now based in Davao City.
Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya emboldened B/Gen. del Rosario to resurrect the failed 'Alsa' Lumad -- an AFP psywar scheme that del Rosario used at the onset of the detested Arroyo regime. Similar in 2001, del Rosario recruited, armed and financed Lumad vigilante and fanatical groups to pit lumads and lumads, and against settlers in Davao hinterlands; and deliberately distorted the lumad tradition on avenging justice. He used the vigilante Alamara as surrogate AFP force in its proxy war against the New People's Army. Like in 2001, del Rosario's design failed to decimate the revolutionary forces, instead, it has only earned the people's ire with the string of human rights violations it brought about, among others, the barbaric murders in Paquibato and the bloody 2002 Pangyan Massacre in Davao City.
Since 2006, the 10th ID-AFP's deployment in Southern Mindanao has resulted to an average of 100 persons daily whose rights have been violated, among others, mauled, tortured, illegally detained and interrogated, threatened, communities conscripted, evacuations, homes being ransacked. Victims of extrajudicial killings in the region already totalled more than a hundred including the despicable rape-slay of Rebelyn Pitao. In Paquibato as in Compostela Valley, and other Southern Mindanao hinterlands, the heavy militarization only served one purpose under Oplan Bantay Laya: alienate the people from their lands and livelihood and protect the corporate local and foreign plunderers.
Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya now has only worsened the already sorry condition of the Filipino masses; and has already violently snuff out the lives of civilians Labrador, Tamondes, and Felisilda in Southern Mindanao. We call on the people to be vigilant and throughly frustrate Aquino's Oplan Bantay Laya. Genuine justice can only be achieved through the intensification of the people's democratic revolution.
* Url:http://theprwcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/aquinos-counter-revolutionary-policy-in.html
