From the Negros Daily Bulletin (Oct 11): ‘NPA Leader Victim of Trumped-up Charges’
"The alleged captured New People’s Army (NPA) leader Nilda Bertulano is once more being accused by high-ranking military officers without any basis and with nothing but trumped-up charges".
Thus declared Makabayan-Negros leader Alejandro Deoma, Bayan-Negros Secretary-General Christian Tuayon, and women’s group Gabriela-Negros representative Clarissa Singson in a press conference yesterday morning at the Negros Press Club (NPC) building."
"The trumped-up charges lodged by military officers through the collaborating prosecutor’s office, just like more than a dozen criminal charges against innocent activists, are but results of the military’s counter-insurgency operation to destroy the progressive movement", Tuayon, who himself is facing murder charge allegedly for the killing of an Army lieutenant in an armed encounter in Cadiz City.
The truth is that Bertulano was on her way to Dumaguete City to attend a clergy meeting of the Philippine Independent Church (PIC) when she was intercepted in a Police-Special Warfare team when she was arrested.
Military officers tagged her Commanding Officer of the Front Operational Command of the Front Guerilla I which is part of Central Negros.
She had also been involved in various raids on transloading stations and in ambuscades, they averred.
She jumped bail after she posted one in a court case filed against her and several others, said the military officers.
But she had not jumped bail, the three said, because the arson case which necessitated her posting a P150T bail bond had been dismissed, the three said.
The military is instead engaging in red-baiting tactics, its intent to paralyze the legal, national democratic movement, they said.
On the contrary, though, such wanted person as retired Gen. Novito Palparan dubbed as the "butcher" for having murdered members of the cause-oriented groups is being allowed to remain freely by the military, said Tuayon.
The three also lamented the harsh treatment administered upon the political detainees Zarah Alvarez, who is padlocked inside the jail cell of the now BJMP-operated provincial jail in Tabunan Village, Bago City, separated from two others, Eliezer Navas and Tuayon’s uncle Greg detained in the overcrowded jail in Bacolod City.
A highly-reliable source, said Alvarez is forced to sleep with only mats in the bare cement floor of her cell in the provincial jail, subjected to cruel treatment. She has also been classified as a high-risk prisoner, something laughable, her companions say.
http://www.ndb-online.com/101113/local-news/local-news-npa-leader-victim-trumped-charges
Same old story and the commies are sticking to it. MAKABAYAN is an umbrella political front that consists of some eight CPP-linked party-list political parties. BAYAN is the main CPP umbrella front organization. GABRIELA is a CPP front for women and is also a member of BAYAN. While the Gabriela Women's Party, the political spinoff from the sectoral front is also a member of MAKABAYAN. The commies continue to assert that captured CPP/NPA are not members of the insurgent underground but instead are just simple peasant farmers or pious church workers who have been falsely accused with "trumped up charges" and planted evidence. It's the same old song.
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