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Friday, March 31, 2006
Editorial: Elimination, taxes
THE New People's Army (NPA) may have scored some brownie points when it claimed the life of a suspected robber and rapist in Claveria town, Misamis Oriental recently but then it should answer allegations on its role in the Weena bus bombing in Davao City the other day.
In an interview over at dxIF Bombo Radyo the National Democratic Front (NDF) claimed it had eliminated a robbery suspect linked to the theft of P11,000 from a Claveria town registrar the past two weeks.
According to NDF Central Mindanao spokesman Cesar Renerio the suspect was also accused of raping and robbing a woman and stealing from another woman aside from the town registrar.
Towards this end the NDF North Central Mindanao spokesman went on to preach about the communist movement's gains in advancing the so-called "people's cause" and to demand anew the overthrow of the Arroyo administration, its claim to both political and moral legitimacy questionable notwithstanding.
The claim would have projected an image of benevolence on the part of the NPA and their act of claiming the suspect's life as righteous vengeance.
Since they follow their own laws, which they claim to be from the people, they differentiate their action from the vigilantes who claim the lives of criminal suspects in a similar fashion; judge, jury and executioner all in one.
Still this act, done and disclosed perhaps in timing with the NPA anniversary last Wednesday, didn't clear up any charges about their alleged role in the Weena bus bombing in Digos also last Wednesday.
According to national reports a certain "Kumander Tigre" allegedly demanded "people's taxes" from the Weena bus management, which the latter refused.
Call it what you will but any "taxes" that doesn't even carry an official receipt is a joke and an insult to any person or company who work ward to earn a living.
Though there is no confirmation from their side these allegations certainly makes people do a double take and seriously question about the sincerity of these rebels to effect so-called change for the betterment of the Filipinos.
At any rate people should take a step back or two and evaluate the actions of these rebels in much the same way that they take a critical and cynical evaluation of the country's military and the police and by extension, our government.
(March 31, 2006 issue)
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