Communist surrenderer killed by comrades in Negros Occidental — police report

From the Manila Bulletin (Oct 27): Communist surrenderer killed by comrades in Negros Occidental — police report

Raymart Dagohoy dreamed of going back to a normal life as a sugarcane plantation worker and spend time with his family after leaving the communist movement.
 But on Friday at around 6:30 a.m. while the 22-year-old Dagohoy was about to have breakfast with his father and other co-workers in Purok 3, barangay San Antonio in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, a group of communist rebels arrived and peppered him with bullets.

A police report reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City said that prior to the shooting of Dagohoy, some 20 communist rebels were seen looking for the victim in the sugarcane plantation site where he was working. They were Dagohoy’s former comrades in the New People’s Army.

The police report said Dagohoy has been working as sugarcane cutter for several months already after he was convinced to surrender to the government.

Renato, Dagohoy’s father, said two gunshots were first heard from the approaching rebels, which prompted his companions to run away.

“The victim was shot hit first at the stomach and was shot again while he was running away from his attackers,” the police report read.

“One the male gunmen approached the wounded victim and shot him at close range with an M16 rifle three times on the head,” it added.

Renato told the police investigators that he saw two women armed with handguns and four male companions armed with high-powered guns when he went to the area where his son was killed.

Police later identified the six gunmen as a certain Lando Llamada, also known as Ka Chua; Eustaque Manait, alias Ka Choi; Ka Greg, Ka Joey; Ka Kompol and Ka Lara.

The gunmen reportedly fired their guns while shouting “Long Live NPA” in the local dialect before they left.

The attack on Dagohoy happened while the government is encouraging communist rebels to surrender amid the cancellation of peace talks with the communist rebels. It is being done through localized peace talks.

President Duterte earlier promised to give livelihood projects and houses to communist rebels who would surrender on top of the money being given to the rebels in exchange for the weapons they would surrender.

But police said the security of communist rebels who would surrender is always a challenge as their former comrades would hunt them down especially if they surrender their guns and provide vital information about the movement and their colleagues to the military.

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