Catanduanes Forum

NDF scoffs at Palparan's bid to investigate media killings
Rubi Del Mundo
Spokesperson
National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao
September 14, 2009

Retired army general and now walking butcher in the halls of GRP Congress Jovito Palparan lacks the moral ascendancy to urge the police on probing the media killings in Southern Mindanao. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines finds it absurd for Palparan to initiate such an investigation as proposed during his visit in Davao City last month.
The police themselves are likewise inutile to solve the killings, be it of media practitioners, political activists, and those suspected to be involved in petty crimes targetted by death squads.
Palparan is notorious for more than 500 cases of human rights violations consisting of summary killings, torture, and enforced disappearances of activists during his stint in Mindoro, Romblon, Eastern Visayas, Southern and Central Luzon. Palparan is likewise, linked to the death of environmental activist Eliezer Billanes, a staunch critic of Xstrata-Sagittarius Mines Incorporated, in the abduction and rape of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, and in the illegal detention and torture of witnesses' Manalo brothers.
As the 'berdugo,' 'the butcher,' 'dead man walking,' 'the torturer' or the 'Lord of Death,' Palparan should be the one to submit himself to investigation. Even the United Nations have found him accountable for the gruesome crimes.
As the 2010 GRP election nears, anti-communist partylist groups Anad and Bantay and its figurehead killer Palparan want to use issues of the media to deodorize themselves and clear them from culpability being the chief instigator of human rights violations in the country.

(Sgd) Rubi del Mundo
Spokesperson
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Southern Mindanao