Petition to Stop Murderer From Running In Senate!

To:  Filipinos Around the World

Please help prevent Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo from officially running as a senatorial candidate in the upcoming national elections in 2010 by signing this petition.

Background of Satur Ocampo: Satur who used the aliases Alex/Allen/Aloy/Ely/Andres/Bernard/Antong/Jack/Antonio Soriano and Ka Supremo was a high-ranking leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines. His position as a member of the Central Committee or CC made him directly involved in making Party decisions and in exacting disciplinary actions to erring Party members particularly against those who were suspected to have turned informants for the military.

In the mid 1980s, the series of successful arrests from the CPP ranks and their failed guerilla operations caused excessive paranoia in the movement so much so that the CPP hierarchy launched a wide scale witch-hunt for so-called deep penetration agents. Satur who was a member of the CC oversaw the implementation of a number purging operation such as Kampanyang Ahos and the Operation VD. These purging involved arbitrary arrests, executions and the conduct of massacres on several occasions.

Facts of His Arrest and Detention: Satur was first arrested by government agents on January 14, 1976 for subversion and was detained in Camp Olivas in San Fernando in Pampanga; Camp Capinpin in Laguna; Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City; Camp Crame in Quezon City; and, lastly at the Bicutan Rehabilitation Center until his escape on May 05, 1985 and subsequent return to the underground movement.

He was only again arrested by the government on July 27, 1989 and was detained at Fort Bonifacio with his wife, Carolina Bobbie Malaya, and was released on September 01, 1992.

He was free from May 06, 1985 until July 26, 1989 or 4 years, 2 months and 20 days, to be exact during which he went into hiding and returned to being deeply involved in the rebellion.

Inopacan, Leyte Mass Grave: On August 26, 2006, former NPA member Zacarias Piedad led army personnel to an area locally called as the “garden” in Sitio Sapang Dako, Barangay Kaulisihan in Inopacan town in Leyte to unearth the remains of hundreds of NPA members who were massacred and buried in the mass grave.

Piedad personally recounted that the order to kill suspected deep penetration agents from the NPA ranks was dubbed by the CPP Central Committee (CC) as “Operation Venereal Disease” or “Operation VD” for brevity and was officially signed by Jose Maria Sison, Luis Jalandoni and Satur Ocampo, who were all CC members during that time and was carried out in between 1985 to 1987 (link to account of victims of purging or the relatives of victims).

Excavated from the mass grave site were 67 severely mutilated skeletal remains most of which bear brutal marks of crushed skulls still wrapped with blind-folding cloth, signs of flesh-wounds and broken bones even before they were hammered-down with multiple bullet shots. The remains registered as the most painful in Philippine forensic history to include the fact that others were even buried alive while most were mutilated in pieces.

A living eye witness who was present during the tedious excavation recounted how Satur Ocampo went to Southern Leyte in 1985 and was seen personally seeing to the implementation of the CC directive to liquidate suspected spies within their movement.

Non-bailable Offense Made Bailable:

On March 16, 2007, Satur was arrested for his involvement in the Inopacan, Leyte purging by virtue of a warrant of arrest on a charge of multiple murder issued by regional trial court. However, on April 3, 2007, Ocampo walked out from his detention cell when the Supreme Court, acting on Ocampo's petition to annul the regional trial court decision, ordered his release on a cash bond of P100,000.00.

The Supreme Court decision was on the issue of Satur Ocampo posting bail but his case for multiple murder is still pending.

Elusive Justice: The families of the so-called Leyte mass grave victims are now feeling the perversity of our justice system as one of those accused in the mass killing was able to post a P100,000.00 bail to a non-bailable offense and with no corresponding explanation from the Supreme Court as to why he was granted provisional release.

By signing this petition, you are asking the Supreme Court to rethink its position and not to allow the legal institution to be used by a murderer. Also, for the Commission on Elections or COMELEC to bar the candidacy of Satur Ocampo as he is yet to pay for his crimes to our loved ones.

Please sign the petition.


Yours Truly,


The Unheard NPA Victims

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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