(NI MAC CABREROS)

PINABULAANAN ng Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) ang pahayag ni National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. na may hitlist sila.

“National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr’s hype of an alleged ‘NPA hitlist’ only aims to sow intrigue in order to sabotage the planned resumption of formal peace talks,” diin CPP sa statement.

Binanggit ng grupo na katulad nina DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana at DILG Secretary Eduardo Año, tila nag-aatubili si Esperon sa direktiba ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ibalik ang usapang pangkapayapaan sa NDFP.

“On the other hand, it is in fact the AFP and PNP who keep in their infamous ‘orders of battle’ names of activists, progressives and other individuals supportive of the people’s struggles for democratic
rights. It is the regime’s death squads in the military and police who have killed close to 300 peasants, workers, indigenous peoples, human rights workers, journalists, lawyers and other democratic forces in
the last three years,” dagdag statement.

Inihalimbawa ng grupo ang naganap sa Laak, Compostela Valley kung saan napatay ang magsasaka at mag-amang sina Paterno Casos Sr. at Dino ng mga death squad ng 1001st Brigade. Binanggit ng grupo na matanda na si Paterno habang amputee at may saklay ang nakababatang Casos. Bukod sa tama ng bala ay may senyales ng torture sa katawan ng mag-ama.

“As AFP Chief of Staff of the Arroyo regime, Esperon employed these death squads with impunity. Now being Duterte’s national security adviser, he has extended their vicious campaign of murder,” deklara
CPP.

“While the NPA keeps no ‘hitlist’supposedly with Esperon’s name in it, the people will not fail to remember his many crimes and may seek justice with their revolutionary army,” pagtatapos statement.