Militants picket the NBI main office in Manila on Friday to demand the release of Andrea Rosal and two others. Rosal, daughter of the late spokesperon of the communist movement Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, is due to give birth soon. LESTER LOPEZ, INTERAKSYON.COM
A party-list lawmaker on Friday slammed the arrest of a village chairman who was among those caught with alleged rebel Andrea Rosal in Caloocan City as militants picketed the NBI to demand the release of the woman whom they said is due to give birth soon.
Barangay Captain Ruben Gatchilian is a local chapter officer of the party-list Anakpawis, according to Anakpawis Rep. Fernando Hicap. The village officer was arrested along with two suspected rebels at his home on BF Homes, Brgy.168 Caloocan City by the National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday (March 27).
In a statement, Hicap sought the immediate and unconditional release of Andrea, daughter of the Communist Party of the Philippines spokesperson, the late Gregorio ‘Ka Roger’ Rosal, and Rafael De Guzman. Rosal is 9-months’ pregnant, he said.
Hicap said the NBI should immediately have Rosal undergo medical care as the latter is giving birth anytime soon.
“Anakpawis condemns the arrest of Brgy Capt. Ruben Gatchilian, Andrea Rosal and Rafael De Guzman. The arrest according to human rights group Karapatan violated the rights of the three for a legal counsel, contact to human rights group and immediate relatives” he said.
The series of arrests conducted by the Aquino government on members of the underground movement was meant, in Hicap’s view, to further strain the already fragile status of the peace talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
He accused Mr. Aquino of giving his blessing to “state agents to arrest [people], whether members of the negotiating team on the peace talk representing the NDFP like the Tiamzons and other members of the revolutionary movement. Clearly, the arrest was to intimidate and provoke the CPP-NPA-NDF to abandon the peace talks. It only exposed his double talk on the peace talks.”
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/83687/anakpawis-solon-wants-very-pregnant-andrea-rosal-seen-by-doctors-companions-released
Once again Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) front organizations come to the aid/defense of captured insurgent New People's Army (NPA) leaders. And once again the ties that exist between CPP-affiliated legal front groups and the clandestine Maoist insurgent movement is exposed for all to see.
ReplyDeleteAnakpawis (Children of Sweat or the Masses) is a CPP political front that is focused on the labor and urban poor sectors. A number of Anakpawis leaders have come from the radical CPP labor federation, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May One Movement). Note the KMU attribution on the placard in the photo attached to the article above. KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) is the main CPP human rights front.
Note that the insurgent leader, Andrea Rosal, was apprehended along with two suspected rebels at the home of a local Anakpawis barangay chairman in Caloocan City. The cozy relationship between members of legal CPP-linked front organizations and thenNPA rebels is obvious and is one reason why the Philippine military closely monitors the activities of known CPP front organizations.