There is no point in cofirming or denying if Jonas Joseph Burgos was a NPA Red fighter. This regime makes no distinction between armed fighters and civilians, between combat-capable Red fighters and hors d’combat in waging its “dirty war”, anyway.

And suppose, we confirm he is one, would the AFP let him have his day in court? No, they would not. Most likely, Jonas would end as one of the more than 800 desparecidos and victims of summary execution. He’s been gone for around three months now but his military captors have not budged an inch, even maligning Jonas and the CPP’s name that his disappearance was due to an internal Party struggle.

Jonas and the more than 800 victims of abductions and summary executions or extra-judicial killings are victims in this vicious dirty war the Arroyo regime is waging, upon the instigation and sponsorship of US imperialism. In this war, there is no respect for human rights, no respect for international humanitarian law. No regard whatsoever for Protocol II of the Geneva Convention, signed by then President Corazon Aquino on December 10, 1986, which guarantees the rights of civilians and the hors d’combat in an internal or civil war such as the one currently raging in the country. Not even for the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) signed by then President Joseph Estrada on June 10, 1998.

As if she hasn’t enough laws and power to prosecute whom she perceives to be enemies of (her) state, all lumped together as “communists” and “terrorists”, Macapagal-Arroyo had to whip up the Human Security Act to lay down the legal basis of her all-out-war against the people known as the Oplan Bantay Laya 2.

It is such that Macapagal-Arroyo has turned to be one of the most hated president, at par or even surpassing the dictator Marcos. She is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces that butchers its own people. She is the head of the COCIS that directs this dirty war from her war-room in Malacanang. She unleashes fascist terror on the people to suppress their struggle against her corrupt and puppet government, and the decaying system she wants to preserve.

But as one political analyst of the Philippine Daily Inquirer had observed, it is the political killings, not the cheating, that would bring this regime down.