#title:The truth behind the arrest of "Three High-ranking NPA in Abra"<br>
@@@@@<h1>The truth behind the arrest of "Three High-ranking NPA in Abra"</h1><!-- Simon "Ka Filiw" Naogsan, Spokesperson, Cordillera People's Democratic Front </em><br><br>
Chief Superintendent Luizo Ticman, PNP Region 1 Director haughtily crowed recently that police operatives in the province of Abra arrested last Monday three alleged "high-ranking officials of the NPA Kilusang Larangang Gerilya (KLG)-Northern Luzon". He further claimed that the three suspects Edgardo Molina alias Ka Dong/Bobby, Edwin Balawag alias Ka Bagyan, and Rosemarie Domingo alias Ka Ramses are the commanding officer, executive officer and medical officer respectively of the alleged NPA unit.<br>
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Through their latest stunt, PNP officials are trying to project for themselves an image of superb efficiency in implementing  the US-Arroyo regime's pipe dream of crushing the revolutionary forces by 2010. On the contrary, their latest stunt only highlights the expertise of these PNP officials in spinning lies and fabricating outrageous tales to cover up one of their more lucrative money-making ventures:  "bounty hunting."<br>
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Alleged and former NPA elements are projected by the PNP as "high-ranking" cadres to justify the release of millions in reward money or bounty. This has been the case in several past incidents and is the case now with the alleged arrest of Molina, Balawag and Domingo -- all former NPA guerillas who have returned to civilian life for a long period of time. In Molina's case, the PNP invented incredible tales about his supposedly high rank to collect one million pesos in reward money.<br>
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The tall tales they concoct expose these PNP officials' gross ignorance about the revolutionary movement. They claimed that Molina, Balawag and Domingo are officers of the Kilusang Larangang Gerilya-Northern Luzon. One would think that with the legion of lies they have woven these PNP officers would finally have their acts together. But as the saying goes, "Military intelligence is an oxymoron." In this case, PNP intelligence is clearly an oxymoron. For the edification of these ignorant PNP officers, there is no Kilusang Larangang Gerilya, but there are more than a hundred larangang gerilya or NPA guerilla fronts all over the country. Each larangang gerilya covers the equivalent of three to five contiguous municipalities, roughly the size of a congressional district, so it is impossible for a Larangang Gerilya-Northern Luzon to exist. What these enterprising PNP officers did was to assign to Molina, Balawag and Domingo a fictitious NPA unit in a non-existent guerilla front. And presto, they raked in more than a million pesos in reward money! What these PNP officers lack in intelligence, they compensate for with deviousness.<br>
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A small portion of the reward money will go to a local warlord in Abra who facilitated the fake arrest of Molina, Balawag and Domingo. This is nothing more than leftovers of a feast or crumbs on the table for a loyal servant.<br>
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Molina, Balawag and Domingo were presented as prized exhibits during PNP Chief Jesus Versoza's visit to Tineg, Abra last 07 December 2008. The latest tools in gaining for the PNP some sorely needed "pogi points."<br>
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But "pogi points" or not, the image of the PNP is one reeking with corruption and abuse. There are Euro generals, there are generals who are protectors of drugs, jueteng, kidnapping and other crime syndicates, and there are generals who make money through their make believe versions of gallantry and "bounty-hunting."<br>
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As the people of Abra say to all liars, "Pallak, amud langsut yo!" The Cordillera People's Democratic Front calls on all democratic sectors in the Ilocos and Cordillera to be vigilant and discerning in the face of the lies and fabrications spewed by the PNP, the military and the US-Arroyo regime as a whole.<br>
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