Batasan 4 faces kidnap, murder raps
CABANATUAN CITY –Four party-list representatives were charged last Friday (April 18) in court with kidnapping with murder and two counts of murder for the alleged liquidation of three deep-penetration agents by the leftist movement in 2001, 2003 and 2004.
No warrant was yet issued by the regional trial courts of Palayan City and Guimba town for the arrest of Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teodoro Casiño, and Rafael Mariano, party-list representatives of Bayan Muna and Gabriela.
The co-accused were Eugenia Magpantay of 189 A. Bonifacio Ave., Tañong, Marikina City; Vicente Cayetano of Poblacion, Norzagaray, Bulacan Ditumabo, Baler, Aurora; Emeterio Antalan of Estiponia, Pra, Tarlac; all highranking officials of the Central Luzon Regional Committee, and Nueva Ecija Privincial Committee of the CPP/NPA/NDFP, and members known only as “Ka Sendong”, “Ka Puroy”, “Ka RV”, “Ka Ra”,”Ka Mylene”, Ka Dick”, “Ka Mig”, “Ka Michelle”, “Ka Nasa”, and “Ka Apple”.
The cases were docketed as Criminal Cases Nos. 2613-G, Guimba; 1879-P, Palayan City; and 1880-P, Palayan City.
The four solons were accused by the government of allegedly funding the Central Committee of the Comunist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/National Democratic Front Party (CPP/NPA/NDFP) in their reported violent activities.
A panel of Nueva Ecija Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Antonio Lapus Jr., Edison Rafanan and Edie Gutierrez recommended no ball for all the accused.
The conspiracy allegedly involved the liquidation of the victims Danilo Felipe in Guimba (in 2001), Jimmy Peralta (in 2003), and Carlito Bayudang (in 2004), both in Bongabon town.
Court records showed that in the evening of February 17, 2001, Felipe was riding on his tractor in Sitio Balic-Balic, Barangay Narvacan, Guimba, when a hit squad, in conspiracy with the co-accused, kidnapped and hogtied him. He was allegedly taken to Sitio Bangkag, in Mayantoc, Nampicuan town where he was interrogated, tortured and later killed.
On December 23, 2003, around 10 p.m. Peralta was run over and killed by a white driven by the accused along the highway of Sinipit, Bongabon town.
Peralta was reportedly mistaken for his brother Jimmy who has the same build and appearance as those of the victim.
On May 6, 2004, at past 8 p.m., Bayudang was shot dead in Barangay Sta. Cruz by the same liquidation squad acting on orders from their co-conspirators.
Meanwhile, Human Rights lawyer Romeo T. Capulong cried “foul” and described it as a case of “a long pattern of persecution”.
In a press conference held yesterday, Capulong told media the action of the government was intended “to neutralize these personalities by filling non-bailable and common crimes to freeze their movements and stifle legitimate dissent”.
Rep. Ocampo, who had just planed in from Canada, shared the same sentiments and described the raps as resurrected cases.
CABANATUAN CITY –Four party-list representatives were charged last Friday (April 18) in court with kidnapping with murder and two counts of murder for the alleged liquidation of three deep-penetration agents by the leftist movement in 2001, 2003 and 2004.No warrant was yet issued by the regional trial courts of Palayan City and Guimba town for the arrest of Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teodoro Casiño, and Rafael Mariano, party-list representatives of Bayan Muna and Gabriela.
The co-accused were Eugenia Magpantay of 189 A. Bonifacio Ave., Tañong, Marikina City; Vicente Cayetano of Poblacion, Norzagaray, Bulacan Ditumabo, Baler, Aurora; Emeterio Antalan of Estiponia, Pra, Tarlac; all highranking officials of the Central Luzon Regional Committee, and Nueva Ecija Privincial Committee of the CPP/NPA/NDFP, and members known only as “Ka Sendong”, “Ka Puroy”, “Ka RV”, “Ka Ra”,”Ka Mylene”, Ka Dick”, “Ka Mig”, “Ka Michelle”, “Ka Nasa”, and “Ka Apple”.
The cases were docketed as Criminal Cases Nos. 2613-G, Guimba; 1879-P, Palayan City; and 1880-P, Palayan City.
The four solons were accused by the government of allegedly funding the Central Committee of the Comunist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/National Democratic Front Party (CPP/NPA/NDFP) in their reported violent activities.
A panel of Nueva Ecija Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Antonio Lapus Jr., Edison Rafanan and Edie Gutierrez recommended no ball for all the accused.
The conspiracy allegedly involved the liquidation of the victims Danilo Felipe in Guimba (in 2001), Jimmy Peralta (in 2003), and Carlito Bayudang (in 2004), both in Bongabon town.
Court records showed that in the evening of February 17, 2001, Felipe was riding on his tractor in Sitio Balic-Balic, Barangay Narvacan, Guimba, when a hit squad, in conspiracy with the co-accused, kidnapped and hogtied him. He was allegedly taken to Sitio Bangkag, in Mayantoc, Nampicuan town where he was interrogated, tortured and later killed.
On December 23, 2003, around 10 p.m. Peralta was run over and killed by a white driven by the accused along the highway of Sinipit, Bongabon town.
Peralta was reportedly mistaken for his brother Jimmy who has the same build and appearance as those of the victim.
On May 6, 2004, at past 8 p.m., Bayudang was shot dead in Barangay Sta. Cruz by the same liquidation squad acting on orders from their co-conspirators.
Meanwhile, Human Rights lawyer Romeo T. Capulong cried “foul” and described it as a case of “a long pattern of persecution”.
In a press conference held yesterday, Capulong told media the action of the government was intended “to neutralize these personalities by filling non-bailable and common crimes to freeze their movements and stifle legitimate dissent”.
Rep. Ocampo, who had just planed in from Canada, shared the same sentiments and described the raps as resurrected cases.
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