ILOILO CITY – Communist rebels in Panay Island have issued arrest orders against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales and a military official previously held captive by the rebels for the abduction of two leaders of militant organizations in the island.

In an e-mailed statement issued on International Human Rights Day yesterday, the Coronacion Chiva “Waling-Waling” Command, said the President, Gonzales and Lt. Col. Noel Buan are among those “indicted” in the rebel's “people's court” for the abduction of Ma. Luisa Posa-Dominado and Nilo Arado.

“All units of the NPA in Panay are ordered to arrest these accused and present them to the People's Court to face the charges against them,” the rebel command's spokesperson, Julian Paisano, said in the statement.

Also named as targets for arrest were Maj. Gen. Jovenal Narcise, commander of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division; Col. Mariano Perez, former head of the 6 th Military Intelligence Battalion; Capt. Lowen Gil Marquez, head of the Civil Relation Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Western Visayas; and Demetrio “Hugo” Capilastique, regional commander of the breakaway Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade.

Paisano said the officials were primarily responsible for the abduction of Dominado and Arado.

The two activists have remained missing after unidentified heavily armed men waylaid their vehicle and forcibly took them on April 12 this year in Brgy. Cabanbanan in Oton, Iloilo .

Dominado was the spokesperson of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya (Selda) while Arado headed the regional chapter of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.

Marquez dismissed the statement as “black propaganda.”

“The NPA are responsible for these abductions and killings but blame them on the AFP and the government,” Marquez said in a telephone interview.

Narcise, who commands Army troops in Western and Central Visayas , had earlier denied any involvement in the abduction, saying they were only after armed elements of the Left and not unarmed activities

He has also offered a P100,000 cash reward for the location and recovery of the two victims.*NPB

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