Fascist attacks on Bayan Muna
Since March 2001, there have been at least 37 attacks by the reactionary state against members and supporters of Bayan Muna, the party of patriotic and democratic forces.
Among these cases are the murders of Peter Dagawin, Ricardo Romero, Roberto Nepa, Wilfredo Mananghaya, Lando Cabagay, Roger Fernando and Philip Lopa, all Bayan Muna leaders from various provinces.
There have also been several cases of torture, illegal arrest, forced disappearance and other human rights violations committed against members and leaders of Bayan Muna.
Since February, several Bayan Muna leaders in Central Luzon have been illegally arrested, with authorities refusing to surface them. Missing to this day are Bayan Muna coordinator Juan Sario Orcino and his companion Honorio Ayroso. They were abducted on February 7 in Barangay Sto. Ni�o, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija by armed men believed to be elements of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency.
Also missing are Edwin Villaruz, a tricycle driver, and Rowena Bayani, both Bayan Muna members. They were abducted on February 4 in Barangay Cabiticulan West, Maria Aurora, Aurora by suspected 70th IB troops.
On February 2, policemen raided the house of Rustico Pamintuan and Luz Patinga, both farmers from Tarlac. After being robbed and mauled, they were illegally arrested and detained at Camp Makabulos, Tarlac and slapped with trumped-up charges of kidnapping for ransom and robbery.
In Kapatagan, Zamboanga del Sur, Dante Sumatra Bones, a carpenter and Bayan Muna supporter, was arrested and later died from injuries suffered after a severe beating. His head was banged against the cement floor of the PNP headquarters in Kapatagan while he was being mauled by PO3 Solomon Sanchez.
Long before this, Camenia Abatan, an Ata-Manobo native and auditor of the Bayan Muna-Talaingod chapter, was abducted by 72nd IB troops on June 23, 2001. She remains missing.
According to Bayan Muna, these relentless attacks prove that the Macapagal-Arroyo regime has no respect for the people's human rights and for humanitarian law.
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