Plain hypocrisy and lies in the military's tirades at Rep. Satur Ocampo
The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today slammed the 8th Infantry Division for mendaciously and hypocritically calling on Rep. Satur Ocampo to "confess". "Military mouthpiece Capt. Mario Jose Chico is twice a liar for calling on Rep. Satur Ocampo to confess to crimes he never committed, based on the evidence of so-called "mass graves" in Inopacan, Leyte that is in fact a hoax in which the 8th ID had a hand in making up," said Fr. Santiago Salas, NDF-EV spokesperson. "It smacks of arrogance and it is a gross insult to the people that the military could hound Ocampo for allegedly committing crimes in 1984 in Leyte, when he was actually in the Marcos dictatorship's gulag until 1985. Thus, the Arroyo regime and its armed forces are in a worse state than the obliviousness alluded to by United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston. They are completely above sanity and decency, for despite evidence and witnesses in the real issue of their slaughter of journalists and political activists, they are orchestrating that extrajudicial killings are tied to the slur that the communists had been killing each other time and again."
The NDF-EV spokesperson furthermore said that the charges against Ocampo and 51 others in relation to the Inopacan "mass graves" are bound to blow up in the faces of their accusers. "There are no mass graves in Inopacan or elsewhere except in the ghoulish imagination of the Arroyo regime and its military. It has been previously exposed that there have been various attempts at such wholesale fabrication in Southern Luzon, Central Visayas and Mindanao, culminating for now in the military's elaborate setting up of their so-called "evidence" and coercion or duping of witnesses in Leyte. Thus the overlaying aboveboardness of the legal proceedings against Ocampo and others cannot conceal their real nature of being an anticommunist witchhunt fueled by hogwash and sensationalism.
"The reason why the Arroyo regime and the military wants Rep. Ocampo in Leyte is not to make him face justice but a lynch mob. The 43rd Infantry Battalion has instigated a climate of fear by spreading anticommunist propaganda and mobilizing vigilantes in Hilongos, Leyte where Ocampo was supposed to be detained. When Rep. Ocampo was to be forcibly brought to Leyte last March 19, Capt. Chico was even spotted at the Tacloban airport overseeing the anticommunist rally by their assets in the Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy led by Jun Alcover."
Fr. Salas explained that the military's propaganda bluster in the persecution of Rep. Ocampo had the darker motives of the counterrevolutionary campaign Oplan Bantay Laya II. "The Arroyo regime and the military are hell-bent on exacerbating the fascist state terrorism begun with Oplan Bantay I. A worse bloodbath is ahead despite international condemnation, including the current proceedings of the Permanent People's Tribunal, of extrajudicial killings in the country. The military is physically eliminating the members of the progressive party-list and other democratic mass organizations, as well as actively disenfrachising progressive involvement in the current election campaign. This is because the Arroyo regime is committed to railroading the triumphalist two-year timetable of Oplan Bantay Laya II by inflicting ever more atrocities against the revolutionary movement along with the democratic mass movement, the broad opposition, and the people."
Fr. Salas called on the people to be vigilant and actively resist the state of terror that the Arroyo regime and the military want to impose and emphasize today by political killings and other attacks on the people's rights. "It is emblematic that at the time Rep. Ocampo was undergoing his ordeal, the Arroyo regime and the military were gloating at the absolution of their butcher, retired Gen. Jovito Palparan, by the Commission on Human Rights. There is no justice under this regime. It is the people who should mete justice on the puppet, corrupt and fascist regime through their vigorous armed and unarmed resistance until it is overthrown."#
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