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...now, even the leftis solons condemns NPA of extortion... asking a 30 million

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnew...ticle_id=17777

Party-list solon condemns NPA

By Maila Ager
INQ7.net
Last updated 08:25am (Mla time) 08/29/2006

"GANGSTERISM and hypocritical" was how a party-list lawmaker at the House of Representatives described the alleged continued extortion activities conducted by the New People's Army (NPA) on non-combatants.

Akbayan Representative Loretta Ann Rosales stood in the plenary on Monday to condemn the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, whose latest victim was Altertrade, an alternative business enterprise in Bacolod City.

By refusing to shell out 30 million pesos, Rosales said the communist rebels burned a truck owned by the company last August 13, 2006.

"Mr. Speaker, again and again, we have to reiterate our position that the revolutionary taxation system being implemented by the NPA is plain and outright extortion,” she said in her speech.

"It is a violation of international humanitarian law as it entails the use of force, coercion, and intimidation against non-combatants,” she said.

Rosales said the rebel group's use of arms to exact fees from entities such as Altertrade “must not be allowed to pass by unnoticed.”

Force and intimidation, she said, were unacceptable means to wage a war against a common enemy such as injustice and poverty.

“And the NPA must learn to respect that not all those who want to see societal change can be bullied into turning a blind eye to its less than savory practices,” she pointed out.

Rosales said the NPA “cannot and should not display behavior that runs contrary to its self-proclaimed role of being the people's protector” especially at a time when political activists are being killed left and right.

“Its attempts at extorting money from reputable organizations whose aim is to help the poor is downright gangsterism and hypocritical in the context of CARHR-IHL,” she said.

CARHRIL stands for Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

“Burning equipment as an enforcement methodology for their internal system sounds more like something one would expect from the mafia, and not an avowed revolutionary organization,” she added.


The Akbayan solon then urged his colleagues in the House to join her in condemning the NPA.

Rosales said that peace can only be achieved if the initiatives of the whole range of progressive organizations, including alternative trade organizations, are respected and left out of the ongoing war between the NPA and the government.

[samamar21]

A well-known leftist leader has accused the communist New People’s Army of “downright gangsterism” after NPA rebels torched a truck belonging to an export company that refused to pay P30 million in revolutionary taxes.

The Aug. 13 attack against the Bacolod City-based AlterTrade Corp. showed “the darker side of the revolutionary forces under the New People’s Army of the Communist Party,” militant lawmaker Loretta Ann “Etta” Rosales said in a privilege speech in Congress on Monday night.

AlterTrade is managed by former NPA members who had gone into the business of exporting muscovado sugar and bananas.

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerhea...ticle_id=17967

[omad]

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General vows to crush reds by 2010

Cebu Daily News
Last updated 02:10pm (Mla time) 07/31/2006

Tacloban City — The all-out war policy of the national government would be pursued to the fullest until the insurgency problem is crushed, a senior military commander said

Major General Bonifacio Ramos, former commanding officer of the Army's 8th Infantry Division based in Catbalogan, Samar and newly appointed chief of the Northern Luzon Command, said he would free from communist rebels the areas under his new command.

Last Saturday, Ramos formally relinquished his post as Eastern Visayas' top Army officer to his deputy, General Randy Dauz during a ceremony held at the grounds of the 8th ID headquarters presided by new Army chief Lieutenant General Romeo Tolentino.

He assumed his new post on July 25 replacing Tolentino, who was promoted as the new Army chief when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo named Hermogenes Esperon Jr. as the Armed Forces Chief of Staff.

Ramos said that with President Arroyo giving them a marching order coupled with a P1-billion fund, he would see to it that his vast area of jurisdiction would be free of the presence of the New People's Army.

“Your soldiers are determined to end the country's insurgency problem which is indeed one reason the total development in the countryside is stalled. We have to solve this menace once and for all for the good of our people in the countryside and of the entire country,” Ramos, reached on his mobile phone, told the Inquirer.

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[baron]

Well, I was surprised when I learned this. Etta Rosales is a known militant solon and an ally of other known militant legislators in the HoR such as Satur Ocampo, Liza Masa, and Teddy Casiño. There must be something going within their group.

In the meanwhile, we can see another faction within the militant groups. Now, their differences are exemplified not only while their armed counterparts are in the countryside but also within the walls of the Batasan as well.

[omad]

I think this topic has already been discussed here.

[samamar21]

this topic i just published in philippine daily inquirer today!
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerhea...ticle_id=17967

[iloveyou4ever]

Now Etta Rosales makes sense

[FK]

and you thought they are one.

[bcasabee]

Yeah I thought so too. I hope many of those militants will side with the government ug dili lang reklamo, they should help too.......

[estor_boot]

i was not surprised. i cant remember exactly where but i read once that Etta Rosales had been in the NPA hitlist a long time ago.