PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines

CPP denies ongoing mass purges
April 5, 2002

The Communist Party of the Philippines has categorically denied AFP allegations that mass purges are currently being undertaken within the revolutionary movement.

In a statement, CPP spokesperson Gregorio �Ka Roger� Rosal branded as �blatantly untrue and preposterous� claims by Southern Luzon Command chief Gen. Ernesto Carolina of continuing mass purges in the CPP. Carolina made the claims in connection with the recent exhumation of five human remains from what he said was an NPA mass grave in Quezon. The military even made it a media event.

"It is even more probable that the remains are those of victims of AFP salvaging,� said Rosal. �The AFP has been known to concoct tricks even dirtier than this,� he added.

Rosal stressed that �Operation Missing Link,� the codename for an anti-infiltration drive conducted in Southern Tagalog in the mid-1980s, has been thoroughly repudiated and its perpetrators expelled when the Party undertook the Second Great Rectification Movement in 1991.

�If at all, it is the AFP itself that is coddling the leading personalities behind Operation Missing Link,� he said.

Rosal cited the case of Miel Laurenaria, who was expelled from the CPP Southern Tagalog Regional Committee for having initiated �Operation Missing Link�. �Laurenaria,� said Rosal, �now operates under the auspices of the AFP as head of the paramilitary group �RHB� in the Bulacan-Rizal border area.�

Reference:
Anne Buenaventura
Media Officer
Cellphone Number: +63910-240-3553



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