Statement on the Release of GPH MayorDano and his two military intelligence escorts
October 9, 2011
Private armed groups of GPH politicians, landlords and comprador-capitalists face punitive actions
The detention of Mayor Henry Dano of Lingig, Surigao del Sur as an accused under the custody of the revolutionary people’s democratic government and not as a prisoner of war, ends today. His case is conditionally archived to give way to his release. But in the event that he wilfully commits an act or acts that constitute as violation of human rights, international humanitarian law and the laws and policies of the people’s government, he shall be rearrested and put to trial.
In compliance with the unilateral political decision of the Southern Mindanao Party Regional Committee-Communist Party of the Philippines ordering his release in consideration of his conveyance of an apology for acts with which he was charged, the custodial unit of the Conrado Heredia Command-New People’s Army undertakes his release to his family.
Mayor Dano was not a prisoner of war, much less a “kidnap victim,” contrary to erroneous and malicious pronouncements by the GPH and its AFP/PNP. Rather, he is a civilian who was charged in the people’s court, disarmed and arrested by the NPA, and detained to face the bar of revolutionary justice for organizing and maintaining a private armed group in collusion with the officers and intelligence personnel of the 75th IB-4th ID of the Philippine Army. Thus, it is patently wrong for the GPH and the AFP/PNP and even those in the mainstream mass media to call him a prisoner of war.
MAYOR DANO
Mayor Dano was arrested and detained to answer to his acts that resulted in his indictment before the people’s court of the People’s Democratic Government for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. And much to the chagrin of the GPH and the AFP/PNP, the revolutionary movement has again showed in concrete action its strong political will to dismantle private armies, paramilitary groups and armed religious fanatical cults organized and armed by big landlords, big compradors and the AFP/PNP.
Unlike the NPA which is relentless against these PAGs (private armed groups), the AFP/PNP encourages its proliferation as part of the reactionary state’s US-directed counter-insurgency operations while promoting the greed of big landlords, big compradors in the plantation and mining businesses and local politicians who pay-off officers of AFP/PNP units.
As we release Mayor Dano today, we also warn those despotic big landlords, big compradors, environmentally destructive foreign mining firms, large agricultural plantation owners and politicians who maintain PAGs to exploit, oppress and terrorize the masses: you will have your day before the bar of revolutionary justice.
Politicians of the local GPH units are well-advised to stick to performing civilian functions and immediately disengage in armed and hostile activities. Armed collaboration with AFP/PNP military operations will rightfully result in the loss of your protective status as civilians as guaranteed by international humanitarian law and thus, lay the grounds for your justifiable arrest on the strength of complaints filed before the people’s court and found to be with probable cause by the prosecutorial arm of the People’s Democratic Government, and for disarming and corresponding punitive operations by the NPA.
Prisoners of War Cpl. Alrey Desamparado (Serial No. 832272) and Pfc. Alan Saban (Serial No 846458) of the 4th ID-AFP Intelligence unit are likewise being conditionally released despite a strong basis for the imposition of the maximum penalty of death by the military tribunal on account of the blood debts and acts of espionage they have committed against the revolutionary movement in the course of their performance of AFP military intelligence work. They have admitted their crimes and a decision by an NPA military court to order their deaths after due trial is justified and would not in any way contravene international rules governing armed conflict.
But they are being conditionally released to give them a chance to remould and rectify by ceasing any participation of the armed counter-revolutionary operations of the GPH. But should they violate these conditions by continuing acts of hostility and aggression against the masses and the revolutionary movement, they shall be consequentially placed in the NPA Order of Battle.#
*read by a representative of the Conrado Heredia Command
THE DURIAN POST 