CATARMAN, Northern Samar -- Communist rebels in Eastern Visayas have accused a lawmaker for Wednesday’s massacre of five persons, including two children, in a remote village of
Fr. Santiago Salas, spokesman of the National Democratic
Front in the region, in a statement dated September 17, condemned the carnage
in Barangay Victory and blamed Samar Representative Milagrosa Tan.
This reporter tried multiple times to phone Tan for a
reaction but she did not answer the calls.
Salas claimed Tan is “behind the dirty tactics of political
murders and intimidation in Western Samar . The
NPA (New People’s Army) also knows that a squad of assassins from Northern Samar has been added to the private army of the
Tan dynasty, thus fuelling its reckless brutality."
Police earlier said Sonny Regulacion y Casaljay, 38,
his children Cristina, Angel Mae, 2, and Princess Christine Joy, 5, and a
relative, Adela Regulacion y Acebar, 42, died when around seven gunmen,
reportedly clad in military fatigues and wearing hoods to conceal their faces,
opened fire at a house in Barangay Victory, Calbayog.
Another child, a seven-year old girl, and Sonny's wife,
Marlene Natayangga, 40, a barangay kagwad, were wounded in the
incident.
Authorities said they were not discounting local politics as
a possible motive for the massacre since Sonny was a known leader of Calbayog
Mayor Ronald Aquino.
Aquino is a known opponent of Tan and is a close ally of new
Interior Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento, who hails from Calbayog.
Salas, in his statement, also blasted Sarmiento for failing
to address several unsolved killings in the congressional district he used to
represent before being named to head the Department of Interior and Local
Government.
Among these were last year’s murders of Calbayog Association
of Barangay Chairman president Justiniano Belleza in front of the city’s
legislative building and of former Barangay Cabicahan chairman Fernando Ygrubay
and a companion in a separate incident.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/117746/eastern-visayas-rebels-blame-lawmaker-for-calbayog-massacre
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