The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday dismissed reports that ranking rebel leader, Adelberto Silva, who was arrested by military and police operatives in Bacoor,
"Adelberto Silva is facing criminal cases filed by the
family members of the victims of the New People’s Army (NPA) purging in Leyte . It is surprising that he is named as a National
Democratic Front (NDF) peace consultant despite his act of ordering the NPA to
wage armed violence against the people in the countryside," AFP public
affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc said.
He added that the militants could not prove that Silva is
listed in the Joint Agreement on the Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG)
which was signed by the Government of the Philippines
"They could not present any evidence to prove this
claim," Cabunoc said.
Silva and his wife Sharon Cabusao were arrested during a
joint military and police operation in Bacoor City, Cavite last June 2 by
virtue of warrant of arrest for15 counts of murder issued by Regional Trial
Court Branch 18of Hilongos, Leyte.
A certain Isidro De Lima was arrested with them.
The arrest was conducted in the presence of local officials
showing transparency in the conduct of law enforcement operations by the
Philippine National Police.
Silva is accused of heinous crimes such as murder and
frustrated murder.
He was also tagged as among those who had a direct hand in
the infamous Inopacan massacre which claimed the lives of more or less 400
people.
Some of these victims were buried in a mass grave scattered
in the hinterlands along the municipal boundary of Mahaplag, Hindang and Inopacan,
all in Leyte .
Elements of 43rd Infantry Battalion discovered a mass grave
at a placed called “Garden” in the vicinity of Mt. Sapang Dako of Barangay
Culisihan, Inopacan, Leyte on Aug. 27, 2006
which led to the discovery of this heinous crime.
Troopers exhumed 68 skeletal remains which led officialsand
media to dub the place as the “Inopacan mass graves”.
Silva is just one of the 52 others who were accused of
involvement in this massacre.
He is also a member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Philippines
To maintain organizational unity, the CPP/NPA/NDF adopts a
committee system in its organization based on the principle of democratic
centralism.
The Central Committee directs and supervises the different
functional staffs and regional committees.
It is the highest and leading CPP committee in the country.
Its functions are:
•in between National Congresses, it leads the entire work of
the Party;
•makes current decisions and issues statements about
national policies;
•to abolish or create new party organs;
•directs and allocates party cadres and attend promptly to
appeals from lower party organizations;
•to prepare the standards and means of elections of all
leading committees at every level;
•to call or order the holding of conferences by the
territorial committees; and,
•at its plenum, which is once every six months, elects the
following:
Politburo and its composition, the CC Chairman and Deputies,
the Secretariat, and the General Secretary.
Silva is the Secretary of the National Organizational
Department of the CNN which is in charge of the recruitment of cadres, units,
and organization and works for the Secretariat of the CPP.
He was first elected to the Central Committee during the 9th
Plenum on June to November 1985 which was held in Nueva Vizcaya and changed
venues until they reached Bondoc
Peninsula
He was re-elected to the Central Committee during the 10th
Plenum on July to August 1992.
Among his colleagues in the Central Committee are the
Tiamzon couple who were arrested recently.
The series of arrests of prominent members of the CNN is the
result of the collaborative efforts between security forces and disgruntled
members of the organization who have finally realized the futility of the
communist movement.
This is a clear indication of the existing divisiveness and
breakdown of the party’s ideological purpose.
His arrest will have a huge impact to the CNN and to their
strategic direction and programs.
The CNN is slowly breaking apart and is using the peace talks
as their last straw to free its CPP-NPA leaders who were arrested by the
government forces.
"Finally, justice will now be served to those members
of the NPA who were tortured and murdered by their own comrades in their
purging campaign against suspected military agents in their group,"
Cabunoc concluded.
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