Former Negrense priest-turned-rebel leader Luis Jalandoni was among the 37 communist rebels ordered by a Manila court to be arrested, in line with the Inopacan massacre in Leyte in the late 1980s.
It was Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina who issued the arrest warrant dated August 28 against Jalandoni, CPP leader Jose Maria Sison, and 35 others, who were charged with 15 counts of murder.
Jalandoni is the senior adviser of the National Democratic Front of the CPP-NPA.
“This is long overdue in the quest for justice of the many victims of the atrocities of the CPP-NPA," Brig. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, said yesterday.
Joma Sison and his cohorts should also be held responsible and accountable for so many killings and terroristic activities, not only in the past, but most especially these recent times, more so when he ordered the NPA on different occasions to launch attacks against the government forces that caused so many deaths and destruction, Arevalo added.
The 37 accused respondents were denied bail by the court. Sison, in his Facebook account, disclosed that the long drawn Inopacan case of “walking skeletons” is a cruel joke at the expense of patriotic and progressive activists.
He claimed that the bones were collected by General HermogenesEsperon, who is now the National Security Adviser of President Rodrigo Duterte, from various cemeteries during the time of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in order to make his “legal offensive” and persecute the opponents of the Arroyo regime.
Sison alleged that when the fake Inopakan massacre was supposed to have happened, he was still under maximum security detention by the Marcos regime. “I was not in any position then to go over the head of the leadership of the CPP and revolutionary movement,” he added.
Sison described the list of accused as “utterly stupid and obviously fabricated.”
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/September/07/topstory2.htm
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