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NPA resorts to extortion
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 22:38.
Communist guerrillas will use the May 14 midterm elections to raise funds through extortion, put sympathetic candidates into office and rally their forces, police said Friday. In a briefing to foreign diplomats, the police said the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, would use all its resources to “threaten the integrity of the elections.” “All the political machineries of this communist terrorist group, like the party committees, guerrilla fronts, agitation/propaganda groups, legal fronts and allied organizations will commit themselves to the upcoming elections,” the police said in a briefing paper. As part of this effort, the NPA is sending extortion letters demanding fees of up to P1 million from politicians if they want their campaigns to go undisturbed by the rebels. The paper also said there would be a resurgence of CPP-orchestrated killings of candidates and other political supporters the party perceives as enemies. Communist guerrillas in the countryside will also intimidate voters into supporting CPP-controlled fringe political parties and sympathetic candidates, police said. National Security adviser Norberto Gonzales warned on Thursday that the communists were training snipers to assassinate her and other officials. The Philippines goes to polls on May 14 to elect the entire 250-member House of Representatives, half of the 24-body Senate and over 17,000 public officials, including governors and mayors. Gonzales openly accused six leftist parties with representatives in Congress of being fronts for the CPP, charging that they were using the democratic process to further their armed rebellion. The groups have denied such accusations. On Thursday, a lower court ordered the arrest of leftist legislator Satur Ocampo and 50 others who were indicted for their alleged role in a deadly NPA internal purge in Leyte from 1985 to 1991. The CPP and the 7,000-member NPA have been waging a nearly four-decade insurgency to seize power in the Philippines. *QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Elections in the Philippines are going to be very difficult. Do you think that other countries should intervene in the name of democracy? Can you think of anything that can be done to increase the possibility of fair elections in the Philippines? Source: |
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