Thursday, July 3, 2014

‘NDF laying ground for assassination’

From the Visayan Daily Star (Jul 2): ‘NDF laying ground for assassination’

Assassination?

Abang Lingkod Rep. Stephen Paduano said yesterday that the National Democratic Front-Negros is laying the ground for his assassination by issuing “malicious and concocted” accusations against him.
 
NDF Negros spokesperson Frank Fernandez, in a statement furnished the media Monday, slammed the installation of Paduano, former national commander of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade, as a representative of what he called the “bogus” Abang Lingkod partylist-group in the House of Representatives.
 
Fernandez said Abang Lingkod is a bogus party-list group that does not represent any marginalized sector.
 
He also linked Paduano to the series of killings of peasant leaders in Negros, and said other RPA-ABB leaders were also linked to the murder of Kabankalan Regional Trial Court Judge Henry Arles in Ilog, and that of Romeo Capalla in Iloilo.
 
He added that they are also part of the much-dreaded “death squad,” allegedly of the Philippine Army.
 
These are just a few of the cases filed before the People’s Revolutionary Court against the RPA and Paduano, Fernandez also said.
 
Paduano said the claims of Fernandez against him and Abang Lingkod is a big insult to the intellect and constitutional rights of the 200,000 who voted for his partylist group in Negros Occidental and the 60,000 more in other provinces .
 
“They are recycled, concocted, malicious accusations from an old dog who never learns new tricks,” Paduano said.
 
Their system of justice that is carried out through "kangaroo courts" that is a shortcut of the justice system is what is bogus, Paduano said.
 
If Fernandez is still alive, his statement shows old age while thinking like a crying kid, he added.
 
PEOPLE’S COURT
 
“I challenge him (Fernandez) if he is still alive and can still talk straight, to a debate over the airwaves,” Paduano added.
 
“What about the hundreds of innocent victims executed by their (the NDF’s) executioners on orders of their fake people’s court. They are the accuser, judge and executioners,” Paduano said.
 
He also cited the thousands of Negrense victims of the NDF’s Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army revolutionary taxation in countryside by force and intimidation, and their using the money for their terroristic activities and not for services for the people.
 
“It is only the legitimate government that can tax people, not these arrogant and anti people terrorists of the CPP-NPA,” Paduano added.
 
Paduano, 49, a native of Negros Occidental, joined the New People’s Army (NPA) in 1982 and rose through the ranks.
 
When his group split from the NPA in 1997, they formed the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas with the RPA-ABB as its armed wing. The group has entered into a peace agreement with the government.
 
Paduano resigned as RPA-ABB national commander in June 2012 to campaign for Abang Lingkod, of which he was first nominee.
 
Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. would not comment on the NDF statement against Paduano.
 
But he said he is reiterating his offer to provide medical assistance to Fernandez who, he heard, is sick.
 

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