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During the 1980s, the CPP was shaken by a series of paranoid purges. The number of victimes, then tortured and killed, is very high. It is the drakest side of a fight otherwise often heroical. An association of survivers and victimes’ relatives, Path, aims at getting the whole truth on this question. It receives today a support form most of the Philippine Left; but it also faces very violent attacks from the present leadership of the CPP.
The truth on the purges has to be known. In memory of the victims, but also to allow an in depth reflection on how such a disaster became possible. We hope to contribute to it by presenting here this dossier.
, by ABINALES Patricio N.
In July 1985, while top leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) Mindanao Commission (Mindacom) were in Manila attending a Central Committee plenum to decide the next phase of the revolution, a caretaker group that remained in Mindanao was startled to receive reports from (...)
, by GARCIA, “Bobby”
Amsterdam,
From a dedicated communist guerrilla to an enthusiastic liberal human rights activist. It seems an unlikely transition, but Filipino Bobby Garcia is the living proof that it is possible.
“It’s the meaning of life” says the 41 years old secretary general of Peace Advocates for (...)
, by Path
Self-presentation of Path taken from its website on October 16, 2006.
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Peace Advocates for Truth, Healing & Justice (PATH) was formally organized in 2002, pioneering in its focus on human rights violations by a non-state armed group. Composed of torture (...)
, by RIMBAN Luz
CONSOLACION Aniasco Niduelan somehow knew she would find her sister in Cebu.
Several times in the past 20 years, Aling Cion, as she is called, saved whatever she could from her pay as a street sweeper and bought passage to Cebu. She would get off at the pier.
But with no idea where to look, (...)
I saw ABS-CBN’s Probe Team feature last Sept. 20, 2006 on the successful exhumation in Sitio Amaga, Barangay Bonbon, Cebu City of the bodies of suspected deep penetration agents (DPAs) killed in a purge inthe middle ’80s. It was the second digging after the bodies of Jess and Nida Libre and Ben (...)
, by GARCIA, “Bobby”
The suspected communists are being felled in rapid succession, and government is blaming the communists. The latest to fall was Bishop Alberto Ramento, and government is pointing at thieves. With the way the usual suspects are being rounded up for all the political killings happening now, I (...)
, by GARCIA, “Bobby”
Manila, Philippines
The first problem I have with the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law or CARHRIHL is its name. It is way too long; every time I try to write it I always end up missing an R or an H or mixing up the sequence. Is the (...)
, by AGCAOILI, Fidel, NDFP
Reply to Path
, by SARMIENTO Juan
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the Communist Party of the Philippines marks its 35th founding anniversary this Friday, the Inquirer is coming out with this special report on the bloody purges within the party in the 1980s. With the country under Ferdinand Marcos’ rule by martial law, the outlawed (...)
, by ISMAEL
I EARNESTLY regret my participation in the so-called anti-infiltration campaigns of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). That I was not part of the decision-making process and that I was merely an operative in the casing and arrest of some of the suspects do not lighten the burden that (...)
, by ABINALES Patricio N.
We are dealing with CPP (mostly post-1992) assassination policy and with the 1980s CPP mass purges in two different sections of ESSF website. Indeed, they represent two different, if both deadly, processes. But analysis of both also overlaps.
In his April 2003 contribution on Kintanar (and (...)
, by GARCIA, “Bobby”
Implications of Left purges.
, by ILAGAN, Bonifacio
The “Left Purges”
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Implications of the Left Purges
, by REYES Ric
Time has come.
, by BAGARES Romel, DUMLAO Artemio, QUIAMBAO Steve
He killed his own.
This was the accusation hurled at Communist Party of the Philippines spokesman Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal by a former comrade, who said Rosal took part in the summary execution of 66 New People’s Army cadres in Southern Tagalog in 1988 during the CPP-NPA’s bloody purges.
“If (...)
, by GARCIA, “Bobby”
Robert Francis Garcia, To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated its Own, Quezon City / Anvil Press / 2001.
[Adapted from the author’s remarks at the book launch on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2001.]
Editor’s Note: To Suffer Thy Comrades describes in detail Bobby Garcia’s life as (...)
, by Ka Barry
Document; Ka (comrade) Barry underlines the responsibility of party leader Jose Maria Sison for factionalism and purges in the CPP and warns of a growing campaign to discredit and marginalise comrades in Central Mindanao.
The very first thing that needs to be clarified about the paper (...)
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