From the Visayan Daily Star (Dec 8): Police arrest high
ranking Negros rebel
Police intelligence operatives yesterday arrested a suspected member of the
regional committee of the Komiteng Rehiyonal-Negros in Brgy. Poblacion, Bago
City, Negros Occidental. Apprehended by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by Cadiz Regional Trial
Court Judge Renato Muñez for the crime of murder was Aniceta Rojo, “alias Che”,
of Brgy. Suma-g, Bacolod City. Rojo was listed in the police order of battle as an alleged member of the
KR-Negros regional finance and education committees. Her arrest by members of the PNP Regional Intelligence Unit 6 and Bago
policemen came more than a month after Sarah Alvarez, “alias Ka Olsen”, was also
apprehended in Cadiz City, for a murder charge.
Supt. William Senoron, RIU 6 chief, yesterday said the arrest warrant issued
on Rojo stemmed from the death of Army 1Lt. Archie Polenzo, a company commander
of the 62nd Infantry Battalion, in Cadiz City, two years ago. Rojo, who was also linked to robbery-in-band and arson charges, in connection
with the raid of a fishpond in Cadiz City, and the burning of sugar transloading
stations in Toboso, has been denied bail by Muñez. A similar murder charge was also filed against Alvarez, police records
show.
Karapatan-Negros and its allied organizations, meanwhile, slammed the
military and police for what they call fabricated charges, filed against
innocent leaders and members of cause-oriented groups, through the Inter-Agency
Legal Action Group. Rojo was turned over by her police captors to the Bureau of Jail Management
and Penology in Cadiz City yesterday.
The arrest of Rojo brought to 21 the number of alleged high profile CPP-NPA
personalities arrested in Negros Occidental since 2007. However, 16 of them, who managed to post bail and were released from jail,
have gone back to the mountains to continue the armed struggle, military records
also show. Chief Supt. Charles Calima, PNP Intelligence Group, yesterday commended his
intelligence operatives for a job well done.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/December/08/topstory6.htm
Notice that, right on cue, the CPP-linked human rights group Karapatan, comes to the defense of captured (alleged) NPA leader Aniceto Rojo by asserting that the charges are fabricated and suggesting that Rojo is just an innocent member of cause-oriented group (read CPP front group). Karapatan often arranges for a defense team for capture CPP/NPA cadre. Many Karapatan members are in fact human rights lawyers. In the past, when insurgent leaders have been captured Karapatan has argued that the arrest warrant is defective, or it's just a case of mistaken identity, or as in this case the charges have been fabricated and the arrested individual is just an innocent member of a legal cause-oriented organization.
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