Anti-communist group guarding Palparan jail

MANILA, Philippines - Anti-communist forces have been deployed in the periphery of the Bulacan Provincial Jail to secure detained retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan from New People’s Army (NPA) assassins.

Guardians Forces Brotherhood International Inc. (GFBI) spokesman Oliver Lozano told The STAR their members who are active, retired and reserve police and military personnel will help police in monitoring the jail’s vicinity.

“Our members are already in the area on round-the-clock watch,” he said.

Lozano said some retired police and military officials in GFBI are veteran anti-communist fighters.

“The communists are determined to kill Palparan to undermine the legal and democratic processes and to weaken the anti-insurgency campaign of the government,” he said.

Lozano said the general sentiment in GFBI is to ferret out the truth behind the alleged abduction of two students and let the wheels of justice turn.

“As a father whose son was also abducted and killed, I share the grief of the parents of the victims, but I also share their hope that their daughters are still alive,” he said.

The attempt to kill Palparan amounts to obstruction of justice and suppression of truth on what really happened to the missing students, he added.

Lozano said the GFBI will also help in getting information and relay this to the missing students’ parents and the authorities in the hope that they could still be alive.

On the case of his son Emerson, he never believed that he was killed until he saw the charred remains and the dental records matched, he added.

Lozano said the same case could have happened to other missing victims whose disappearances were blamed on the military and police.

Palparan’s plight is a wake-up call for the government to intensify its poverty alleviation program, particularly in the rural areas, breeding ground of communists and secessionists, he added.