By now you may have the basis to call me a “fugitive,” to call me a “criminal on the run,” to say that I am probably “hiding” with the New People’s Army. To these, I say yes and no: Yes, I could be a “fugitive,” if that is what I should become in order to dodge the bullets of assassins and in order for me to live to tell the truth in an impartial trial in the future. No, I could not be a criminal, because I am not the one tainted with the blood of murdered activists, journalists and multitudes of masses, this government is.
Yes, I could be with the New People’s Army (NPA), because the AFP and the PNP are incorrigible mercenaries out to eliminate us, because you remain to be the lead machinery in maintaining this dictatorship, and, because you have trained the guns of Bantay Laya I and II against the people.
Most of all, you are utterly devoid of the principles and discipline of the NPA.
You may have left Davao City because of a “promotion,” but that “promotion” will always be meaningless, empty. Were you “promoted” for unleashing your dog Toto Palma to kill Apolonio “Tatay Poloy” Enoc in an incident in Marilog? Were you “promoted” for deceiving the Lumads in the hinterlands of Marilog and Paquibato into taking arms and transforming their kinsmen into paramilitary units? Were you “promoted” because you have virtually bungled the investigation involving the Sasa airport and wharf bombings? Were you “promoted” because you have orchestrated political repression in the region?
If these were in fact the bases, you deserve a demotion to the rank of nothing, and so do your cohorts – Jovito Palparan, Raul Gonzales, Norberto Gonzales, Eduardo Ermita, Mike Defensor, etc. – who are guilty no less of decimating the very concept of civil liberties.
In your departure, the TFD failed to crush dissent in the region; and so did Bantay Laya in its first five years of implementation. Bantay Laya failed to destroy the Moro rebellion. Bantay Laya failed miserably to end the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF). Why else would Bantay Laya proceed to its second phase if it succeeded in the first place? Bantay Laya sorely failed.
Bantay Laya II’s five pillar approach (i.e. Five pillar offensives: in the fields of: military, politics, legal, economic, and communications/propaganda) is bound to fail. And, that is not something the AFP can lie or gloat about.
The liberation movement is trying you and your cohorts before the bar of people’s justice for having masterminded to undermine, to crush basic human rights, civil liberties and democracy. You would neither hear any of us say “surrender and face the music” nor hear us mutter “he must be hiding behind his commander-in-chief,” because as the revolutionary history of this nation would have it, the verdict is in: A people united ends tyranny.
In the service of the people,
(Sgd) ALVIN M. LUQUE
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