Alleged NPA liquidation list sows fear among those included

By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
September 24, 2006

TACLOBAN City, Leyte  – Regional Development Council Chairperson, Governor Rosette Lerias requested the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the Region  to look into the alleged NPA Liquidation List which is sowing fear among those included in the list.

Governor Lerias said, empty or not, the Regional Development Council recognizes the threat that it poses and so she asked that it be verified. She said that the Council cannot allow groups to undermine people who are working hand in hand with government for the development of the Region.

She however, emphasized that the alleged Liquidation List be verified because anybody can come up with a list. This may just have come from unscrupulous people who want to sow fear, the chairperson added.

The chairperson’s reaction came after Eastern Samar Coalition of NGOs and POs and Private Sector Representative to the RDC Agustin Docena brought the Liquidation List issue to the attention of the RDC Chair and the entire RDC membership.

PSR Docena of Eastern Samar ranks second in the list of 31 liquidation targets allegedly by the Committee Central ng Pilipinas Hukbong Tagahatol ng Bayan, Leysam Anti-Communist Movement.

Docena was listed as Bayan Chairman which he vehemently denied during the Thursday Special Meeting of RDC 8. He clarified that he is only connected with the Eastern Samar Coalition of NGOs and POs and also with the Samar Island Biodiversity Group.

Docena claimed that he got the computerized list from another person who is listed as the fourth in the order of liquidation.

The alleged Liquidation List which is signed by a certain Ka Henry, is composed of local government officials, university professors, a columnist of a local paper, professionals listed as members of leftist groups, NPA supporters/contacts who has done sins against the people (nahimo nga mga sala kontra ha hatawhan), all from Eastern Samar.