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‘Ito ay bahagi ng nagpapatuloy na crackdown sa hanay ng mga kritiko ng rehimen’

“Ito ay bahagi ng nagpapatuloy na crackdown sa hanay ng mga kritiko ng rehimen. Nagluluksa kami ngayon. Ano pa ba ang gusto ninyo, pinatay na ninyo ang aming ama. Ano pa ba ang gusto ninyo gawin, yurak-yurakan pa? Hindi pa ba kayo kuntento. Bigyan ninyo kami ng panahon na magluksa. Bigyan ninyo kami ng panahon na alayan ng dignidad ang aming ama. Bigyan ninyo kami ng panahon na maningil at maniningil kami sa takdang panahon.” Ariel Casilao, Former Representative, Anakpawis Party List

Buhay dakila

Bigo ang

mga pusakal

matapos dambahin ng

duwag na salarin at

hablutin ang kanyang

hininga.

Muli nilang itinakas

ang walang buhay

na katawan at

hiningang nilagas

ng bala at

patalim.

Sa paga-aakalang

nasa kalamnan nito

ang husay at yaman

ng prinsipyong

umuugnay sa dibdib

ng walang tinig

at karaniwan.

Ipinagkamaling

ang bukal ng talino,

ay isa lamang tiningkal

na lupa sa gitna,

ng nag-aalimpuyong

init ng araw

sa kanayunan.

Humahalakhak na

sinaklot ang hininga,

sa pag-asang

magwawakas

mga sulatin ang paksa,

ay ugat at butil,

at liyab ng apoy.

Namamag-asa

ang mga hunghang!

na sa pagkitil,

sadyang maagaw din

ang bukal ng yaman

mayron si

ka Randy.

Ibarra Banaag

Agosto 12, 2020

Marahas na pagpaslang kay Randall “Randy” Echanis, kinundena

Nagsagawa ng indignation rally ang iba’t ibang progresibong grupo at peace advocates upang ipanawagan ang hustisya para kay NDFP Peace Consultant Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis na brutal na pinaslang sa kaniyang tinitirhang bahay noong Agosto 10. Ginanap ang naturang protesta sa harapan ng Liwasang Diokno, Commission on Human Rights, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, kahapon, Agosto 11.

Kabilang din dito ang mga kaibigan ni Ka Randy na hanggang ngayon ay hawak pa rin ng PNP ang bangkay.

Tagumpay ka Ka Randall

ni George Tumaob Calaor

Traidor at saksak sa pagkaberdugo nilang kinitil ang iyong buhay

at ngayoy buong dahas na kinakamkam ang iyong bangkay

hindi sila nagtagumpay

sa pagkukubli ng katotohanang sila’y sangkot sa iyong pagkamatay

lunurin pa nila sa kasinulingan, baluktot na pangangatwirang naglalaway

sila!!!

Kung bakit kayo ngayoy nakahimlay!

Ikaw ay lupang

pasistang kinakamkam ng ganid

at pagkagahaman…

Ikaw ay sagana

sa kanayunang dinukot

ng sa lupa ay buong dahas

na nagdiyos-diyosan

Ikaw ang hustisyang

pinagdamutan

ng katarungan!

at higit sa lahat

Ikaw ay larangan

ng namiminto nang bisperas

ng kanilang kagapian!

‘Pagkat kamatayan niyo

ay kamatayan ng

pananagumpay!

Mababawi ang kanilang

dinukot at kinamkam!

Lalaya ang buhay

Hitik sa kawalan ng uri

sagana at pantay!

HINDI KO KAYO TITIGILAN

Randall Echanis

Bakit ko kayo titigilan

kung patuloy ninyong pinipiga,

pinapahirapan ang mga magsasaka

at dinudusta ang masa?

Bakit ko kayo titigilan

kung patuloy ninyong kinukurakot

ang pondo ng bayan,

pinapatay, ikinukulong

at dinudukot

ang mga aktibista

na sa inyo’y lumalaban?

Bakit ko kayo titigilan

kung patuloy kayong sunud-sunuran

sa mga sakim na dayuhan

na dumarambong sa yaman ng mahal kong bayan?

Hinding-hindi ko kayo titigilan

hangga’t may palalong tirano

na nakaupo sa palasyo

na hangga’t ang mga anakpawis

ay walang kapangyarihan.

Hinding-hindi ko kayo titigilan.

Sinulat niya ang tulang ito noong Disyembre 2008 habang nakapiit sa Manila City Jail sa gawa- gawang kaso na isinampa sa kanya.

Pinilit Kang Binunot Ngunit Hindi Nagtagumpay

(Alay kay Randall “ Ka Randy” Echanis)

by Prestoline Suyat

Pusikit pa ang gabi

nang pilit kang binunot

binistay ng mga bala

pinagsasaksak

hanggang malagutan nang hininga.

Pinilit kang inilayo

itinangging ikaw ang bangkay

na dinuhagi ng mga demonyo.

Ngunit paanong hindi makikilala

ang mabuting binhi

ang sibol na pinagyaman

ng mapagpalang mga kamay

ng mga mangunguma;

ang bigas na pinalusog

ng maraming taon ng paglilingkod at pakikibaka?

Pinilit kang binunot

ngunit tulad ng iba

ginintuan ka ng palay

sa matabang lupa

ng paglaban ng masa.

Nag-akala sila

ngunit nalinlang.

Paano ka mabubunot sa amin?

Hindi ang lagablab ng digmaan,

Hindi ang kadiliman ng bartolina,

Hindi ng mga dagok at hambalos ng pang-aapi,

Hindi ng mga unos ng pagmamalupit,

Hindi ng brutalidad ng pagpaslang.

Ikaw din na di na lang binhi

kundi nagpataba ng lupa

ng rebolusyong inangkin mo

at inalay sa bayan.

REVOLUTION

(For Randall Echanis)

by Lou Gartha Kho-Mawis

After that slow fear

crawling over our spirits

The rage takes over

Quick

Shooting like lightning

Charring the apathy of day

The helplessness of night

Then elightenment

We wriggle

Free from our chains

On tiptoe

we reach for the dreams

We thought were behind us

The gap that we must bridge

is worth our final breath

Our dreams conceive

a world without borders

Hands without chains

In the darkness

we have already died

Struggle is

Our resurrection

NDFP peace consultant Randall Echanis murdered

Randall Echanis, long-time National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant, was killed early Monday morning, August 10, in Novaliches, Quezon City.

His peasant organization colleagues said Echanis’ murder may be by state forces.

He was killed with a still unidentified neighbor, Anakpawis Party also reported.

Echanis died of multiple stab wounds on his back based on an early police report, his colleagues told Kodao. His remains will be autopsied, they added.

Former Anakpawis Congressman Ariel Casilao said that Echanis “was undergoing medical treatment, and was unarmed, when suspected state forces raided his house.”

Echanis actively participated in peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) since 2002 and served as vice-chairperson of the NDFP’s Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and Economic Reforms.

He was NDFP’s leading consultant on agrarian reform and played a key role in the drafting of documents on agrarian reform and rural development and the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Reforms.

The victim, 72 years old, was also the incumbent deputy secretary general of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.

As peasant leader, Echanis spearheaded nationwide campaigns for genuine agrarian reform, including free land distribution to Filipino farmers. He was instrumental in crafting the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB) repeatedly filed in Congress since its first filing in 2007.

A former political detainee, Echanis was arrested three times during the Marcos, Aquino, and Arroyo regimes. He became Anakpawis Party’s third nominee after his latest release from jail in 2010.

Randall Echanis (left) with fellow NDFP peace consultant Vicente Ladlad (partly hidden), NDFP Negotiating Panel member Benito Tiamzon (center) and former NDFP resource person for political and constitutional reforms and now Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Damagoso (right). [Photo by Jon Bustamante/Kodao]

Swift condemnation

NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison condemned the murders, saying Department of Interior and Local Government secretary Eduardo Año may know about the killings.

“It is widely known that the DILG secretary Año has been boasting to his staff and other people that he has mapped out the locations of all social activists through the local governments and neighborhoods and that he can wipe them out the social activists anytime,” Sison said.

“This boasting of Año is taken seriously by all the social activists that he threatens to kill,” he added.

Sison said Echanis’ murder will have far reaching consequences as it arouses the indignation and just wrath of the peasant masses and the entire Filipino people.

“All social activists have no choice but to intensify in every necessary way their struggle against the tyrant, traitor, butcher and plunderer Duterte,” he said.

NDFP Negotiating Panel legal consultant Edre Olalia for his part said “ruthless dark forces have struck again” with Echanis’ murder.

“Are we totally and almost irretrievably shutting the doors and windows of a potential peaceful resolution of the perennial ills of society by sowing terror and trepidation among those who present alternative solutions? Where will the people go thence for their legal struggles if they are not welcome?” Olalia asked.

Echanis is the third NDFP peace consultant killed after President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled peace negotiations in June 2017.

Felix Randy Malayao, NDFP peace consultant for Cagayan Valley, was killed in his sleep inside a bus in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya in January 2019.

Julius Giron, designated as National Consultant Number 1 due to his seniority in the Communist Party of the Philippines, was also brutally killed in a combined police and military raid in Baguio City last March 13.

Giron was the holder of a Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees Document of Identification (DI) number 978410 under the name of Arnold Cruz.

All three were killed in the early hours of the morning.

They also were born and raised in Northern Luzon: Echanis in the Ilocos Region, Malayao in Cagayan Valley and Giron in the Cordilerras.

“How bad can it get? It is almost conclusory that the ruthless dark forces have struck again. How then can we encourage people to openly and effectively engage in legitimate causes and advocacies for social and economic reforms if you treacherously silence them?” Olalia further asked. # (Raymund B. Villanueva)