A peasant activist was mercilessly killed in Quezon, while two student activists were abducted in Nueva Ecija. In Iloilo, a former comrade was illegally arrested and misrepresented by the military as a leading cadre of the Ilocos-Cordillera Region (ICR).
Quezon. Suspected state agents gunned down Hildegardo “Gil” Hernandez, 48, in Barangay Sta. Catalina, Candelaria in the afternoon of August 6. Hernandez was an active member of Pagkakaisa ng mga Magsasaka at Tagapagtaguyod sa Ikalawang Distrito ng Quezon (Pamatid-Quezon). Two assailants aboard a motorcycle fired at Hernandez who sustained gunshot wounds to the head, face, neck and torso.
Hernandez, who also organized small coconut farmers in Quezon was part of a group preparing relief operations for victims of typhoon Glenda when he was killed. He is the 108th peasant victim of extrajudicial killing under the Aquino regime.
Nueva Ecija. Elements of the 3rd IB of the Philippine Army abducted Guiller Martin Cadano, 22, and Gerald Salonga, 24, in Barangay R.T. Padilla, Carranglan on August 9. Cadano is the regional coordinator of Kabataan Partylist-Central Luzon and Salonga is an organizer for Anakbayan-Central Luzon. They are both graduates of the University of the Philippines Diliman-Extension Program in Pampanga (UP-DEPP).
After the military forced its way into the house they were staying, they were ordered to lie face down and were blindfolded. Cadano was bound when he was pushed into a red van while Salonga was forced aboard a white pick-up truck. They were brought to a remote area where they were forced to admit to being members of the New People’s Army.
They were surfaced and transferred to police custody only after KARAPATAN-Central Luzon conducted a fact-finding mission on August 10. They are currently detained at the headquarters of the Philippine National Police Provincial Public Safety Company in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.
Iloilo City. Combined police and military forces illegally arrested Eduardo Almores Esteban, 60, in his house in Barangay Buntatala, Jaro, Iloilo City on August 5. Esteban is a former comrade who has been living with his family as a civilian for close to ten years. The AFP claimed that Esteban is the former secretary of the Regional Party Committee in ICR in order to collect the ₱5.8-million reward for the capture of a “Manuel Esteban” who is purportedly a leading cadre in ICR. Eduardo Esteban has never operated in ICR.
[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the
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