From the Negros Daily Bulletin (Apr 16): Sectoral Leader Nabbed by Combat Policemen Here
A sugar workers’ organizer was arrested yesterday morning at their family house in the Central Manapla area, his nephew, Christian Tuayon, Bayan Muna-Negros Secretary-general, said.
Greg Tuayon was immediately taken to the Manapla Police Station. Like many other activists slapped with various kinds of trumped-up charges and issued warrants of arrest, Tuayon likewise was accused of participating in the burning of transloading stations, participation in ambuscades and other criminal acts, although he is a mere organizer of sugar workers and not an armed guerilla.
Relatives in an interview with the NNF/NDB, said Tuayon was also former chairman of a youth activist organization in the province. Like many other activists slapped with trumped-up charges, the intent of government is to paralyze cause-oriented groups under Oplan Bayanihan, counter-insurgency strategy.
The RPSB police were the ones who arrested Tuayon.
He was campaigning for his partylist group, Anakpawis when arrested at his house in Manapla town, his nephew who was interviewed by NNF/NDB said.
About a dozen innocent activists and organizers in sectoral organizations have been slapped with trumped-up charges, records in NNF/NDB’s possession showed.
http://www.ndb-online.com/041613/local-news/local-news-sectoral-leader-nabbed-combat-policemen-here
CPP front groups have wasted little time in coming to the defense of Greg Tuayon. The standard propaganda tack is to characterize Tuan as a "sugar worker's organizer" (probably the NFSW-National Federation of Sugar Workers, a known CPP labor front) and not an insurgent.
ReplyDeleteTuayon's linkage with Anakpawis makes sense. The organization is a CPP-associated party-list political party that represents the interests of labor and the urban poor.
His nephew's involvement in the national democratic movement is not unusual. Commie recruitment often brings family members into the fold. In this instance Christian Tuayon, Greg's nephew is serving as the secretary general of the Negros chapter of Bayan Muna, another CPP-linked party-list political party.
The standard commie propaganda attack also seeks to link the "illegal" arrest/detention of innocent "activists" to the Philippine military's Bayanihan Internal Peace and Security Plan in an attempt to discredit the AFP and its COIN efforts.