5th Anniversary of the Inopacan exhumation

Government inaction scored!

By ANAD Partylist
August 27, 2011

QUEZON CITY  –  On August 28, (Sunday) the free and peace loving Filipinos will commemorate the 5th anniversary of the exhumation of about 67 remains, part of the unknown number of Filipinos, violently murdered by the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF in the forested area commonly known as “The Garden”, among the residents of Southern Leyte.

In August 28, 2006, skeletal remains of innocent victims of Maoist terrorist’s tyranny and violence were dug up in a mass gravesite in a ridge of Mt. Sapang Dako of Inopacan, some 370 meters above sea level, by elements of the Phil. Army’s 802nd Brigade, 8ID supported by residents and former NPA rebels who claimed to have witnessed the mass killings and have since rejoined government.

The Inopacan mass murders far outweighs the many OPLANS that the Maoist terrorists ordered and under the supervision of the so-called AHOS committee headed by Jose Ma. Sison, with Satur Ocampo, Vicente Ladlad, Randall Echanis, and Rafael Baylosis.

Many, if not all, of the witnesses positively identified them as among the top CPP-NPANDF personalities involved in that highly despicable act against human life. Like their master and iconic leader, Joma Sison, Ocampo et. al. culled the same lines of defense saying that they were under detention in l984 at the different government detention facilities then and could not have been involved, directly or otherwise, in the Inopacan mass killings. What a lame and highly dubious excuse that government would believe and give credence! This alone is reminiscent of the usual pattern of denials skillfully dished by Ocampo and his comrades to exculpate them from whatever liability not only on the Inopacan massacre but in all other CPP ordered mass purgings like OPLAN Kahos, Missing Link, Kadena de Amore, Zombies, and Oplan Venereal Disease (VD) that resulted to the infamous Inopacan Massacre.

But why has the wheels of justice stopped turning? Could the reported entry of several die-hard Maoist communist personalities in Malacañang have something to do with these?

Many freedom and peace loving Filipinos decried the double standard by which the present government has dealt in cases involving Maoist terrorist personalities, especially those arrested for violations of the country’s Revise Penal Code, and known top Communist personalities who continue to remain scot-free despite complaints filed against them and awaiting resolution by the Department of Justice.

While the cases against the Ampatuans are vigorously pursued in the courts of law, the many criminal cases against Maoist terrorist personalities not only are stalled but were withdrawn upon orders of Justice Department. We must not forget - - -The Maoist terrorist NPA’s are just as guilty as the Ampatuans! The number of lives snapped by the vicious hands of power politics in Maguindanao pales so much to the number of Filipinos killed by a group whose loyalty and faith on the ideology of Frederick Engels, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung is unflinching and uncompromising covering some 42-years and still going!

Worth noting is the fact that the so-called sectoral front organizations of the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF, e.g. Bayan, Karapatan, Gabriela, and NUJP, among others, were very much noisy in denouncing the Maguindanao massacre of November 2010, and pinning the blame on the Ampatuans! In stark contrast and for many years, they have closed their mouths, blindfolded their eyes, and has thrown deafening silence on the murders perpetrated by their comrades in the NPA’s, particularly the Digos and Inopacan Massacres, and other human transgressions revealed by Robert Francis Garcia in his book - - To Suffer Thy Comrades!

Appropriately, an Internet blog dated January 4, 2010 by a group known as Unheard NPA Victims (www.topblogs.com.ph/post/inopacan+massacre.html) described the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF as -“. . . red-handed criminal(s) incriminating another felon is more or less a masquerading hypocrite that thinks the public is naïve enough to believe (them) . . .”

The government of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III now bears the burden of proving to all and sundry that indeed justice must be served equally among Filipinos. PNoy’s battlecry against the “Wang-Wang” mentality should now take center-stage to fully convince the millions of Filipinos that indeed his administration means business and never shall they fall and indulge in petty ‘lip-service’ and political grandstanding.