NPA PURGE EXECUTIONER. Felomino Salazar Jr., the executioner of the New People's Army during the 1980s purge in Leyte. A team from the police and military arrested him on Tuesday (July 14, 2020) in Inopacan, Leyte. (Photo courtesy of Philippine Army 802nd Brigade)
Police and military personnel arrested on Tuesday a notorious member of the New People’s Army responsible for the mass execution in Leyte in the 1980s.
Armed with a warrant of arrest, operatives of newly created Joint Task Force “Tandaya” nabbed Felomino Salazar Jr., 69, in Tinago village, Inopacan, Leyte. He is an executive committee member of the NPA Southern Leyte Front.
The Philippine Army reported on Wednesday that the Regional Trial Court of the National Capital Judicial Region Branch 32 issued the arrest warrant for Salazar for 15 counts of murder committed during the infamous NPA purging in the late 1980s.
The activity dubbed “Oplan Venereal Disease” has killed about 300 Leyte residents suspected by NPA as military informants.
“Salazar was then part of the dreaded CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)-NPA intelligence group whose main task during the implementation of the 'Oplan Venereal Disease' was to identify, arrest, investigate and execute suspected government informants within their organization,” said PA 802nd Infantry Brigade Commander Col. Zosimo Oliveros in a statement.
Former comrades who already surrendered to government tagged Salazar as the executioner of the victims of the NPA purging by the CPP central committee to cleanse its ranks of suspected government agents.
Based on accounts of the military and witnesses, most of the victims bore brutal marks of crushed skulls with eyes still blindfolded. They suffered severe flesh wounds and broken bones before they were shot multiple times.
The skeletal remains of 67 persons were exhumed from shallow graves at Subang Daku village in Inopacan town on Aug. 28, 2006, through the help of villagers.
Salazar did not resist arrest since he claimed that he already surrendered to the mayor.
He also owned up to the murders without a feeling of remorse, the military said.
He was brought to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group station in Ormoc City for booking procedure.
His arrest is a major accomplishment of the Joint Task Force “Tandaya” days after its creation on July 3.
The operatives are composed of soldiers and policemen in the provinces of Biliran, Leyte, and Southern Leyte.
"Tandaya" is the old name of the Leyte Island to include the Biliran province before it was renamed by Roy Lopez de Villalobos in 1543.
The term is adopted as the name of the joint task force unifying the efforts of all security forces in the area.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109042
Armed with a warrant of arrest, operatives of newly created Joint Task Force “Tandaya” nabbed Felomino Salazar Jr., 69, in Tinago village, Inopacan, Leyte. He is an executive committee member of the NPA Southern Leyte Front.
The Philippine Army reported on Wednesday that the Regional Trial Court of the National Capital Judicial Region Branch 32 issued the arrest warrant for Salazar for 15 counts of murder committed during the infamous NPA purging in the late 1980s.
The activity dubbed “Oplan Venereal Disease” has killed about 300 Leyte residents suspected by NPA as military informants.
“Salazar was then part of the dreaded CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)-NPA intelligence group whose main task during the implementation of the 'Oplan Venereal Disease' was to identify, arrest, investigate and execute suspected government informants within their organization,” said PA 802nd Infantry Brigade Commander Col. Zosimo Oliveros in a statement.
Former comrades who already surrendered to government tagged Salazar as the executioner of the victims of the NPA purging by the CPP central committee to cleanse its ranks of suspected government agents.
Based on accounts of the military and witnesses, most of the victims bore brutal marks of crushed skulls with eyes still blindfolded. They suffered severe flesh wounds and broken bones before they were shot multiple times.
The skeletal remains of 67 persons were exhumed from shallow graves at Subang Daku village in Inopacan town on Aug. 28, 2006, through the help of villagers.
Salazar did not resist arrest since he claimed that he already surrendered to the mayor.
He also owned up to the murders without a feeling of remorse, the military said.
He was brought to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group station in Ormoc City for booking procedure.
His arrest is a major accomplishment of the Joint Task Force “Tandaya” days after its creation on July 3.
The operatives are composed of soldiers and policemen in the provinces of Biliran, Leyte, and Southern Leyte.
"Tandaya" is the old name of the Leyte Island to include the Biliran province before it was renamed by Roy Lopez de Villalobos in 1543.
The term is adopted as the name of the joint task force unifying the efforts of all security forces in the area.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109042
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