Residents conduct
Indignation Rally against CPP-NPA
By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
September 26, 2006
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte –
An Indignation Rally was conducted Saturday by more than 5,000
residents from the affected municipalities of Baybay, Inopacan and
Mahaplag.
Lt. Col. Mario Lacurom,
commander of the 43rd Infantry Battalion based in Sogod, Southern
Leyte said that the Indignation Rally is an expression of the people’s
desire to seek for justice for the residents and relatives who died in
the hands of the CCP- NPA and to call for an end to the CCP-NPA’s
reign of terror in the area.
The Indignation Rally
started at 9:00 o’clock in the morning with an Indignation March with
some people holding placards calling on the people to be aware of the
true colors of the CCP-NPA and seeking justice for the CCP-NPA purging
victims. During the March, there was also a re-enactment of the
purging victims, hogtied and blind-folded escorted by participants
clad in CCP-NPA attire supposedly being led to the “Garden.”
The “Rallyists”
proceeded to the Municipal Plaza of Baybay,
Leyte where a
Mass was offered. This was followed by the program where NPA
surrenderees, former leaders of NPA delivered speeches expressing
their sentiments on the CPP-NPA and exhorting the people never to
support much less to join the terror group.
Main guest and speaker
during the Indignation Rally was Jun Alcover, national president of
the pro-democracy alliance ANAD (Alliance
for Nationalism and Democracy) Partylist. Mr. Alcover called on all
of the freedom-loving Filipino people to join forces and to remain
united in opposing the Maoist communist-terrorists CPP-NPA-NDF so that
they will not suffer the same fate of their relatives and friends who
had fallen into the trap webbed by the Godless communist terrorists.
Jun Alcover was among those recruited to establish the first NPA
groups in Eastern Visayas particularly in Hinunangan and St. Bernard,
Southern Leyte up to Mahaplag, Baybay, Ormoc in
Leyte and in
Samar.
A re-enactment on how
the CPP-NPA-NDF purging victims were tortured, stabbed to death (ihaw
in the local dialect) and buried, was presented.
The
effigies/caricatures of Joma Sison, Jalandoni and Satur Ocampo,
CCP-NPA-NDF leaders were buried before the rallyists proceeded to the
Municipal Cemetery of Baybay, Leyte to bury the clothes and other
belongings of the purging victims, recovered at the mass gravesite.
