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Bu-lat-lat (boo-lat-lat) verb: to
search, probe, investigate, inquire; to unearth facts
Vol. VII, No. 6
March 11 - 17, 2007 Quezon City, Philippines |
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Rep. Satur
Ocampo of Bayan Muna
Probably Today’s Most Wanted
BY BULATLAT
DEFIANT THOUGH PURSUED: Bayan Muna Rep.
Satur Ocampo stresses a point during his press conference last week
somewhere in Luzon, after the filing of murder charges against him,
Jose Maria Sison, and Luis Jalandoni |
With five teams of the National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI) scattered all over the metropolis to track him down
and 15 agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)
swooping down at his home in Quezon City, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo is
the subject of probably the most elaborate manhunt today.
Despite public persecution from the
government, however, Ocampo’s party, Bayan Muna, emerged as the top choice
as party-list in the latest Social Weather Station (SWS) survey. Its
allies, Anakpawis (toiling masses) and Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) placed
second and third in the list, respectively.
Ocampo, a journalist before and during the
early years of Martial Law, a two-time political detainee, the former
spokesperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines after the
fall of the dictatorship, and a two-termer representative of Bayan Muna in
the Lower House, is facing arrest for charges of multiple murder.
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Branch 18 of the Regional Trial Court of
Hilongos, province of Leyte issued a warrant for his arrest on Monday,
March 5, for the alleged murders in a purported purge of at least 62
members of the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA) in Inopacan, Leyte in 1984.
However, Ocampo said he could not have
been in Leyte at that time to give orders for the alleged purge and
killings, as claimed by witnesses, because he was under military custody
then.
In a media briefing on Tuesday, March 6,
Ocampo said this move to put him behind bars is one of the Macapagal-Arroyo
government’s means to neutralize Bayan Muna and its “politics for change.”
Bulatlat is reposting
this story on Ocampo to give a deeper view of why government agents
want to get him and why the marginalized sectors of society want him back
as their representative at the Lower House.
This story was originally posted on March 14, 2004. Bulatlat
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