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Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines

Murder of 4 activists in Compostela Valley teaches youth to join NPA — CPP
September 29, 2003

The Communist Party of the Philippines today said that the summary execution of four youth activists in Compostela Valley last week would be the Arroyo government's undoing, as it teaches the youth about "the need to join the NPA."

In a statement, CPP spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal expressed his "burning anger" over the murder on September 22 of Lito Doydoy, Marjorie Reynoso, Jonathan Benaro and Ramon Regase. The four victims — youth activists and members of Anakbayan, Anak ng Bayan Youth Party and the Sangguniang Kabataan — were found buried in a shallow grave in Maco, Compostela Valley the next day after they were abducted by armed men led by a MIG asset. Their bodies bore stab and gunshot wounds and torture marks.

Rosal said that the Arroyo regime vents its ire particularly on young people who have been "joining the NPA in their numbers." But Rosal said the approach has backfired as more and more youth join the revolutionary movement and the NPA "in areas where the US-Arroyo regime's all-out terrorist has wrought intense militarization," he said.

"The more the military uses fascism in trying to control the countryside, the more reactionary power vanishes in the people's hearts and minds. The longer the list of victims of harassment, illegal arrests and detention, murder, torture, massacres and other fascist abuses grows, the more intense the people's desire to resist becomes," said Rosal.

Rosal said that it was only the revolutionary movement that offered hope to the Filipino youth of a "prosperous, progressive, just and liberated future." He hailed young NPA Red fighters, who comprise the majority of the guerrilla army, as the NPA's source of its "never-ending vigor." ###

Reference:
Anne Buenaventura
Media Officer
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