NPA Royalty Caught

[baludoy]

a number of people in noynoy's team are known leftists so let's see how the president will treat this "influential" couple's case and incarceration

The communists’ power couple

By Alexis Romero (The Philippine Star) | Updated March 24, 2014 - 12:00am


MANILA, Philippines - Benito and Wilma Tiamzon are in charge of the communist movement while their founding chairman lives in exile in the Netherlands.

The couple studied at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. Benito took up Chemical Engineering and History.

Military records show that Benito, 63, is the chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and head of its central executive committee.

Wilma Tiamzon is 61 years old and the military tags her as CPP secretary-general and member of the central executive committee.

The military said Benito was the secretary, Eastern Visayas regional party committee in 1975, and that he was responsible for the massacre of civilians in Inopacan, Leyte in 1985.

He is calling the shots for almost all major party activities, while Jose Ma. Sison is in exile abroad, the military added.

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The military said Wilma was previously CPP National Peasant Commission secretary, CPP finance officer, and Regional Trade Union Bureau executive member.

The Tiamzons were arrested in Aloguinsan, Cebu on March 22 for 15 counts of murder.

They are accused of killing 15 civilians in Inopacan in 1985. The bodies were discovered in a mass grave in 2006.

The case was originally filed with the Regional Trial Court in Hilongos, Leyte, but it has been transferred to Manila RTC Branch 32.

The couple will be taken to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Manila for inquest.

The military said Wilma was previously arrested on Oct. 4, 1989, but that she escaped on Dec. 25 that same year from Camp Crame.

The CPP spent P2.5 million for her escape, the military added.

The Tiamzons have a daughter, the military said.

The communists? power couple | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

[lowslowbenz]

About time.

Communism is dead as Dillinger.

[Manilablock]

ang pagkakaalam ko ang komunista galit sa mga pulitiko dahil sa pag aabuso.

bakit ung mga pulitiko buhay pa din at ung mga civilians ang pinahihirapan ng mg kumunista?

explain mo nga, luv u.....

[confused shoes]

They idolize Mao but they don't even know who Chairman Mao is. They are more like Kim Jung Il na sinisipa na ngayon ng mga remnants ni Mao.

[shadow]

lol the President just treated them like any ordinary criminals. bigo nanaman yun mga umaasa na kakampihan ni Pnoy yun mga "leftists" na tao niya

[oliver1013]

Tang|#€ tong mga gagong to, nakita ko picture ng rally nila minsan may mga hawak na picture ng mga idol nila na komonista, siempre si karl marx, vladimir lenin, tsaka si Mao, ok lang typical...pero nung makita ko isa sa mga picture na hawak picture ni Stalin...wtf gago talaga di nila alam iniidolo nila, si stalin mas malala pa kay Hitler amp..bobo talaga..

[kotiko]

I just realized how intriguing this one could be.

Obviously PNoy's father is known to be closely associated with the communists during his time, so it's quite interesting to see how this will turn out in time.

[Red Advent 04]

If the price is right..yan na ang pinag lalaban nilang prinsipyo ngayon, hindi tulad nuong panahon ni dating pangulong marcos. ngayon pera pera nadin sila, de kampanilya pa abogado nila. kaya consider dapat sila mga terorista.

[Lew_Alcindor]

Mao did more damage to China. It was Deng and opening of chinese market that started china's economic growth. I do not really understand some people still subscribe to communism.


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[robot.sonic]

Mabuti naman at nahuli na yan. Sana matapos na din ang 30 years na terrorism nila.

[baludoy]

CPP leaders' tipster to get P5.6M

By Alexis Romero (philstar.com) | Updated March 25, 2014 - 7:26pm

MANILA, Philippines - At least P5.6-million in reward money awaits the tipster who provided information that led to the capture of communist leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon.

Armed Forces public affairs chief Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said the board tasked to give rewards to tipsters would soon meet to thresh out the details related to the giving of the bounty.

“We still have to wait until the board meets but most definitely there will be a reward to be given for the information,” Zagala said.

“I do not have the updated figures yet but it (reward) will be at least P5.6-million,” he added.

Zagala declined to provide information about the tipster, citing security reasons.

“I’m not sure if there are other (informants),” he said.

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The grant of rewards to tipsters is provided under the Joint Circular 2006-1 of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.

The reward system is being implemented by the Joint Rewards Valuation Committee to encourage the public to join the drive against insurgency and terrorism.

Zagala said the tip relayed by the informant was valuable because locating the Tiamzons has been a challenge.

“The informant must truly believe in the cause of the government and they will be taking risks on our behalf. I want you to know that the motivation of any informant to the government is not monetary alone,” he said.

“They (tipsters) are convinced that the information they will give will be beneficial, for the good of everyone and monetary reward is a way for us to ensure that the one who will give us the information will be secured.”

Benito and Wilma Tiamzon and five other communist rebels were nabbed by security forces on Saturday at around 3:15 p.m. in Barangay Zaragosa, in Aloguinsan, Cebu.

The Tiamzons are facing 15 counts of murder and were arrested by virtue of a warrant issued by a regional trial court in Leyte.

Benito is the chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) while his wife Wilma is the group’s secretary-general.

Security officials claimed the arrest of the Tiamzons would result in a leadership vacuum in the rebel movement but the CPP belied this, saying it has an orderly succession system.

read more-> CPP leaders' tipster to get P5.6M | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

[baludoy]

I just realized how intriguing this one could be.

Obviously PNoy's father is known to be closely associated with the communists during his time, so it's quite interesting to see how this will turn out in time.

not only that. joma sison was released during tita cory's time (on humanitarian grounds) w/ nothing in return. no assurance of peace nor an order to stand down on mulchting from the reds were uttered by the founder of the communist party of the philippines much to her chagrin

[baludoy]

lol the President just treated them like any ordinary criminals. bigo nanaman yun mga umaasa na kakampihan ni Pnoy yun mga "leftists" na tao niya

i really hope this treatment doesn't waver. kinakabahan ako dyan kay presidential political adviser roland llamas. the guy has a reputation of being close to the cadres of the cpp-npa

[baludoy]

an interesting read on the deadly internal politics of the cpp-npa

QUOTE]Captured

FIRST PERSON By Alex Magno (The Philippine Star)
Updated March 25, 2014 - 12:00am


For decades, Benito Tiamzon was a man without a face.

Having spent the last 40 years in the communist underground, he went by with assumed names and did without photographs. Over the last two decades, after the schisms and breakaways that racked the CPP in the aftermath of the Edsa Revolution, Tiamzon and his wife Wilma Austria had effective control of the CPP-NPA organization.

Not much is known about Benny Tiamzon. He spent much of his life incognito, a communist bureaucrat’s bureaucrat, looking after the mundane details of keeping the insurgency going. His wife Wilma heads the CPP-NPA finance commission, keeping a tight grip over the movement’s logistics.

All we know about Benny is that he grew up in a quiet Marikina neighborhood and studied at the University of the Philippines. At the UP, he joined the mass organization Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan (SDK) as well as the Alpha Sigma Fraternity.

I am sure Gary Olivar, who was with both the SDK and the Alpha Sigma during this period, would know more about this quiet man. Whatever he might be able to recall, however, will be largely irrelevant, superseded by four decades of life in the underground.

There is no record of Benny Tiamzon ever having delivered a speech before a crowd. He does not seem to have written anything of note. Neither orator nor writer, his merits must lie in exceptional organizational skills.


All we know about Benny Tiamzon, since he disappeared from the UP campus during the days of the barricades, is told to us by way of military intelligence records about his activities.

We are told that Benny, deep in the martial law period, was tasked with leading the communist underground in Samar Island. His work there produced impressive results for the movement. Samar, from the late seventies to the present, has been a CPP stronghold with robust NPA units and encompassing mass organizations to support the armed contingents.

With his strong Samar base, Benny rose to prominence in Party circles. At the CPP central committee, he joined the likes of Romulo Kintanar who built up the movement in Mindanao, Arturo Tabara who consolidated a strong base in Panay Island and Felimon “Popoy” Lagman who chaired the Manila-Rizal regional committee of the CPP and is principally responsible for the notorious Alex Boncayao Brigade.

Kintanar, who once headed the NPA, Tabara and Lagman, after the communist movement was bypassed by the Edsa Revolution, began espousing models of revolutionary insurrection distinct from the orthodox Maoist “protracted people’s war” model championed by Jose Ma. Sison. Because they rejected the orthodox Maoist model, the three eventually composed the “rejectionist” wing of the communist movement.

In the face of dissonant voices within the movement, Sison released a policy paper reaffirming the correctness of “protracted people’s war” for Philippine conditions.His followers were referred to as the “reaffirmists” while followers of the Tabara-Kintanar-Lagman axis were called the “rejectionists.”

Tabara, Kintanar and Lagman, in separate incidents were assassinated, allegedly by their former comrades in the “reaffirmist” camp. Also executed by the CPP, reportedly by his own brother, is Conrado Balweg, leader of the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA), effectively a guerrilla front of the NPA. The various tendencies within the general leftwing movement associated with the “rejectionist” wing eventually unraveled and dissipated.

Tiamzon, although he never participated in the theoretical debates that broke out from the late eighties, is generally associated with the “reaffirmist” wing of the CPP-NPA. Possibly guided by his own experiences in Samar Island, he accorded primacy to the role of the armed units in advancing his Maoist conception of the revolution.

With the elimination, by the barrel of the gun, of other possible rivals for leadership of the CPP, the Tiamzon couple took effective control of the communist movement from sometime in the nineties. According to the grapevine, it is actually Wilma Austria who held much stronger views on strategy than her husband Benny. That might be ultimately irrelevant, as the two operated as a tight team and Wilma’s control of party finances gave them uncontested hegemony.

The Tiamzon couple put primacy on strengthening the armed capacity of the communist movement. That eventually brought them into conflict with Sison (and his loyalists based in Holland) as well as with other personalities in the movement who were inclined towards more diverse tactics, including participation in elections.

The Tiamzon couple represented an “army-first” attitude within the movement, holding that all mass organizations must be mere channels for directing logistical support to the NPA. It is a one-dimensional and inflexible attitude that has been criticized as “militarist” by some of their own comrades. At any rate, the hegemony exercised by the Tiamzon couple marginalized all other factions and points-of-view within the movement.

Call them “hardliners” if you must, although that will tend to blur the nuances. At any rate, the strong centralizing leadership exercised by the Tiamzon couple held together a movement that might have disintegrated into independent rebel bands, each controlled by the local area commanders.

The arrest of the Tiamzon couple and several key members of the CPP central committee will likely lead to the aggravation of two tendencies inherent in an insurgent movement like this one: the weakening of central party control over the dispersed armed units in an archipelagic setting and the weakening of cadre influence over the armed guerrilla units who, after all, hold the guns.

The insurgent movement could degenerate into roving rebel bands and guerrilla warlordism -— as the old PKP did in the fifties after senior party leaders were captured.
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[Helios]

gosh npa's still relevant these days?

instead of a peace treaty with this group, send every commie to north korea and cuba where they still have free health care and education. who wouldn't want that?

there are heaps amount of wealthy commies in vietnam and laos, and in china in case they want to dream big

it's no contest when you compare it with the options they have in isolated, backwater town of the philippines

[greenlyt]

mahilig din pala sila sa aso and pusa:

Tiamzon pets on lavish diet-military | Inquirer News

During the arrest of the couple, the brand of the dog and cat food was “Royal Canine.” Alagao said that a pack is worth about P2,000.

There were other two dogs and two cats left behind in the house where the Tiamzon couple used to stay in Cebu. Alagao said they also used the same brand of pet food in the safe house, which means that the NPA couple shell out about P14,000 for their pets every month.

[lowslowbenz]

^

Inquirer people, its spelled ROYAL CANIN.

[chua_riwap]

mahilig din pala sila sa aso and pusa:

Tiamzon pets on lavish diet-military | Inquirer News

sa'n galing budget?
revolutionary tax?

[falken]

Those crates are worth 5,000 pesos each .

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[baludoy]

ka-ching!

NPA collects P42M 'taxes' in North Cotabato

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The New Peoples’ Army (NPA) collected over P42 million worth of "revolutionary taxes" from traders, politicians, and villagers in the second district of North Cotabato, a top military official said.
Lt. Col. Noli Vinluan, commander of the 57th Infantry Battalion, disclosed this during the regular meeting of the City Peace and Order Council recently held here.
Vinluan said that of the amount, P33.8 million were collected from traders, farmers, and residents.
A farmer, for example, is being collected 50 cents for every rubber tree planted in his lot, the military official said.
They have also collected around P8.5 million permit to campaign fees from politicians during the May 2013 elections.
Vinluan used as basis in his report to the CPOC the documents they confiscated in a raid conducted in March this year in one of the NPA’s satellite bases at Barangay New Cebu in President Roxas, North Cotabato.
“These documents were also validated by our military’s intelligence unit,” he said.
He also cited complaints from several businessmen and rubber traders who claimed that the NPAs collected revolutionary taxes from them.
“These traders have long sought help from law enforcers to stop these rebels from exacting money from them. They also asked help from the Army,” said Vinluan.
On March 11, Vinluan led the raid in one of the NPAs’ lairs at Barangay New Cebu, President Roxas where they recovered several firearms, ammunition, mobile phones, and documents, which looked like ‘payroll’ and ‘collection statements’, and subversive materials.
“The documents were proof that the NPAs, though for several times they denied it, were involved in extortion and other illegal activities,” said the colonel.

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