CPP/Ang Bayan: RPA: Butchers still

Propaganda article from the English language edition of Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Jun 7): RPA: Butchers still

On May 28, Stephen Paduano (alias Carapali Lualhati) was sworn in as the representative of Abang Lingkod, the partylist group of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA).

The counterrevolutionary group’s image-change in Congress, however, fails muster among those who know its true character. On the same day Paduano was sworn in, the RPA carried on with being fascist butchers.

RPA elements brutally killed Dionesio Garete, 57, a farmer and resident of Barangay Aquino, Nobleza West, Janiuay, Iloilo at around 9:15 a.m. of May 28. Garete was a member of the Janiuay-Badiangan Farmers Association (JABAFA) which supplies muscovado to the Panay Fair Trade Center (PFTC).

The victim was then driving a Toyota Hilux pickup truck trailing a JABAFA cargo truck loaded with newly harvested sugar cane that was being transported to a sugar mill in Barangay Damirez in the same town.

Garete was ambushed in Sitio Gantong, Barangay Danao, Janiuay. Almost all of the 24 cal .45 bullets and 12-gauge shotgun pellets discharged by his assailants penetrated his chest and the back and front sides of the pickup truck he was driving.

A four-day investigation conducted by a fact-finding team from KARAPATAN-Panay, PAMANGGAS, GABRIELA and PFTC concluded that the RPA perpetrated the crime. Before he was killed, Garete had been threatened by an RPA element going by the alias “Jorek” that he would be taught a lesson if he persisted in actively supporting what he called “the other group.” Three other civilians have also reportedly been issued death threats by the RPA.

KARAPATAN-Panay submitted the fact-finding results to the Janiuay Police Office, but some policemen told them that they were helpless on the matter since the RPA is now “under Malacañang’s direct control.” The RPA is involved in close to 80 murders in Iloilo alone.

[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and views on current issues. Ang Bayan comes out fortnightly and is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Ilokano, Waray, Hiligaynon and English.]

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