Unsolved Mass Killings blamed to CPP/NPA/NDF

On August 28, 2008, the families, friends and relatives of the victims of Leyte mass killing commemorated the second anniversary of discovery of the victims’ mass grave. The case still remains a mystery up to this time. Until now the perpetrators of the heinous crime remain unpunished. The CPP and the AFP are still pointing their fingers at each other for the killing although it is generally conceded that there could be no other group or groups that are capable of committing such dastardly act. At least 100 human remains were exhumed in Sitio Sapang Dako, Barangay Kaulisihan in Inopacan, Leyte on August 26, 2006.

In Palawan, there were several killings of reported former NPA members and suspected military informers operating in the province. According to the Western Command, the victims were surrendeerees and suspected to be working as military informers. They were the following:


1.Paquito “PAKING” NOBLEZA, gunned down on May 13, 2004 in Bgy New Agutaya, San Vicente

2.Joel NAVIA, gunned down on March 05, 2003 in Bgy Concepcion, Puerto Princesa City;

3.Agustin “Tatay HUSTING” JAVAREZ, abducted and killed on January 11, 2003 in Bgy Marufinas, Puerto Princesa City;

4.Roger ALIMPIPINIG, gunned down on February 22, 2003 in Bgy Abaroan, Roxas;

5.Augusto ENGLIS @ KA AGOS, gunned down on November 19, 2002 in Bgy Babuyan, Puerto Princesa City;

6.Roming CABALLERO, gunned down on April 09, 2001 in Bgy Calategas, Narra; and

7. Roding CEMANEZ @ KA MORRIS, killed on April 2001 in Bgy Princess Urduja, Narra


For now, even without the aid of the court or an investigative body, speculation can be made as who the real culprits are since both the CPP and the AFP are capable of carrying out such crime. However, suspicion can be drawn why until today there is no effort on the part of human rights advocators such as the militant KARAPATAN to rally and initiate investigation on the issue if the military are indeed responsible for the massacre? Why they have been in silence since the discovery of the mass grave? They have been issuing statements disowning the crime but that is not enough to expunge suspicion that the communist rebels are not involved in the crime. KARAPATAN is a militant human rights advocate whose political lines closely run parallel to those of the local communist movement.

It has been strongly suspected that the communist rebels themselves did the killing. This suspicion can be substantiated by the established facts that the movement had previously undertaken multiple killing or “purging” to cleanse its own ranks from alleged “traitors” including the so-called “deep penetration agents” who had betrayed their comrades to the enemy. There is a big probability that the Leyte mass grave could be part of the movement’s alleged cleansing operations in the Visayas. As previously disclosed, the CPP/NPA reportedly undertook similar act when it implemented OPLANs Zombie, Cadena de Amor and Missing Link in Southern Tagalog; Ahos in Mindanao; and, Olympia in Metro Manila. The Party’s denial of “purging” was, however, refuted by previous testimonies and claims of former NPAs who returned to the fold of the law because of fear that they might become the next victim of CPP’s “purging” operations against suspected government’s deep penetration agents. The CPP’s alleged internal and widespread purgings are no longer a secret nowadays.