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Government crackdown intensifies<br>
February 27, 2006 @ 8:18 pm · Posted<br>
by Sheila Coronel<br>
Filed under In the News, State of National Emergency<br><br>
THE police today forwarded to the Department of Justice two lists<br>
containing the names of a total of 59 individuals, including members<br>
of leftist party-list groups, leaders of the communist party and
renegade soldiers, that it said were guilty of rebellion and insurrection
"committed on February 24, 2006," the day President<br>
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced she had preempted an attempted
coup<br>
and declared a state of emergency.<br><br>
The list, however, does not include Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, who the<br>
military said was a leader of the aborted attempted "withdrawal
of<br>
support" from the Arroyo government that took place last Friday.
Also<br>
excluded from the list is Col. Ariel Querubin, the commander of the<br>
1st Marine Brigade, who admitted in yesterday's standoff at Fort<br>
Bonifacio that he had intended to join last Friday's protests.<br><br>
Instead, the lists, contained in two letters sent today by the<br>
Philippine National Police (PNP) Directorate for Investigation and<br>
Detective Management (DIDM) to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales,<br>
indicates mainly a crackdown on the legal Left and the communist<br>
party. And while there were only 59 on these lists, the police also<br>
included "others who may be identified later." The PNP letters
came<br>
with investigation records on the named individuals, who they said<br>
were guilty of violations of Articles 134 and 135 of the Revised
Penal<br>
Code, which penalizes rebellion, insurrection and coup d'etat - all<br>
nonbailable offenses punishable with life imprisonment.<br><br>
"This means that they can be charged and arrested any time,"
said<br>
Theodore Te of the Free Legal Aid Group or FLAG. Government
lawyers<br>
have said that as rebellion is a continuing crime, and those who are<br>
guilty can be arrested even without warrants. Bayan Muna party list<br>
representative Joel G. Virador, for example, was arrested without a<br>
warrant in Davao City earlier today. On Saturday, Anakpawis
Rep.<br>
Crispin Beltran was picked up in Bulacan, also in a warrantless<br>
arrest, while Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo eluded an arrest
attempt.<br><br>
FLAG lawyers are worried that many more arrests are in the offing.
The<br>
PNP said last week that it had 200 names on its arrest
list.<br><br>
"This brings back too many old memories," said lawyer Cookie
Diokno,<br>
also of FLAG, whose father, the late human-rights lawyer and senator<br>
Jose W. Diokno, was imprisoned during martial law. "They're not
even<br>
talking about the events of last Friday, and if these people were<br>
really involved in those events, why is Danny Lim not there?
Obviously<br>
there is a different treatment for civilians and for the military
and<br>
the police."<br><br>
The list includes a mix of soldiers and leftists, corresponding to<br>
government claims of a conspiracy among leftists and rights out to<br>
overthrow the Arroyo government. These include exiled Communist
Party<br>
of the Philippines (CPP) leaders Jose Ma. Sison, Luis Jalandoni
and<br>
Fidel Agacoili and 44 other alleged communist leaders and members;
all<br>
six congressmen who are members of the leftist party list groups
Bayan<br>
Muna, Gabriela and Anakpawis; Reform the Armed Forces (RAM) leaders<br>
Gregorio Honasan, Jake Malajacan and Felix Turingan, and three<br>
lieutenants.<br><br>
In his letter to the justice department, Police Chief Supt. Rodolfo<br>
"Boogie" Mendoza Jr., an intelligence officer asssociated with
Mrs.<br>
Arroyo and now acting deputy director of the PNP Directorate for<br>
Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM), alleged that the
CPP<br>
had drawn up a three-year plan for 2003-2005 "to raise the
level of<br>
the people's war and make advances in the revolution. " It said
that<br>
CPP-New People's Army "atrocities" to advance their goals
included<br>
raids and ambuscades, selective assassinations of former communists,<br>
employment of child combatants, mass killings and use of land mines.<br>
There was nothing in the letter that links directly to last Friday's<br>
events. It was this letter that listed 51 names, mainly associated<br>
with the CPP.<br><br>
In a separate letter (click here for a copy), Sr. Supt. Yolanda<br>
Tanigue, acting executive officer of the DIDM, said that renegade<br>
young officers recruited to the Makabayang Kawal ng Pilipinas or
MKP,<br>
allegedly a rebel group organized by Honasan in December 2004, had<br>
plotted to oust Arroyo in alliance with the communists. Tanigue<br>
presented as evidence the affidavits of six young officers who were<br>
supposedly recruited to the MKP but who bolted when they learned of<br>
its "tactical alliance" with the communists.<br><br>
FLAG lawyers, who have seen the affidavits and exhibits submitted by<br>
the PNP were incredulous. Some of the evidence presented, they said,<br>
included affidavits issued for completely unrelated cases, including<br>
those involving the assassinations of former communists, allegedly
by<br>
the CPP. Except for the affidavits of the six officers and the
arrest<br>
of a renegade officer last week with a lawyer allegedly with
communist<br>
links, they said there was nothing to prove the supposed Left-Right<br>
conspiracy, much less the involvement of these individuals in last<br>
Friday's events.<br><br>
Diokno asked: "Why is JV Ejercito not on the list, when he was<br>
supposedly texting people to come to the soldiers' aid yesterday?
Why<br>
are Peping Cojuangco and Boy Saycon not on the list, when they were<br>
supposedly plotting with Danny Lim?"<br><br>
"Marcos had complete control of the military," said Diokno,
"Arroyo<br>
does not, that is why she is using the police to crack down. You
think<br>
she can relieve any military officer after what happened yesterday?
Do<br>
you think she can discipline any other officer in the
military?"<br><br>
The following are the names on the two PNP lists:<br><br>
Jose Ma. Sison<br>
Luis Jalandoni<br>
Benito and Wilma Tiamzon<br>
Rafael Mariano<br>
Satur Ocampo<br>
Crispin Beltran<br>
Teodoro A. Casiņo<br>
Liza Maza<br>
Joel Virador<br>
Gregorio Rosal<br>
Tirso Alcantara<br>
Benjamin Mendoza<br>
Vic Ladlad<br>
Nathaniel Santiago<br>
Sotero Llamas<br>
Julio Atienza<br>
Edilberto Escudero<br>
Rosemarie Domanais<br>
Rogelio Villanueva<br>
Leo Velasco<br>
Rafael Baylosis<br>
Prudencio Calubid<br>
Philip Limjoco<br>
Julius Giron<br>
Allan Jasminez<br>
Antonio Cabanatan<br>
Fidel Agcaoli<br>
Edilberto Silva<br>
Ma. Concepcion Araneta Bocala<br>
Jorge Madlos<br>
Eugenia Topacio<br>
Francisco Fernandez<br>
Carlos Borjal<br>
Elizabet Princepe<br>
Juliet Sison<br>
Randal Echaniz<br>
Rey Claro Casandre<br>
Edwin Alcid<br>
Tita Lubi<br>
Abdias Guadania<br>
Mike Gamara<br>
1Lt. Lawrence San Juan<br>
Atty. Christopher Belmonte<br>
Gregorio Honasan<br>
Ret. Col. Jake Malajacan<br>
Ret. Capt. Felix Turingan<br>
1Lt. Angelbert Gay<br>
1Lt. Patricio Bumidang<br>
2Lt. Aldrin Baldonado<br><br>
alias<br><br>
Friday<br>
Ka Selrio<br>
Kim<br>
Tasio<br>
Randy<br>
Rosa Bisa<br>
Novo<br>
Elya<br>
Rose<br><br>
and several other John and Jane Does<br><br>
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