By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “I think that corruption is the heart of the problem,” writes a reader in reaction to last week’s column piece — regarding five cases of ordinary citizens arrested in joint AFP-PNP operations, using court warrants issued in the names of alleged CPP-NPA leaders with…
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‘Mistaken-identity’ arrests
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The AFP-PNP counterinsurgency forces have done it again: they arrested two elderly persons in Mexico, Pampanga whom they mistook for “top leaders” of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army. Arrested last Oct. 1 were Lourdes Quioc, 64, a village “hilot” (midwife), and…