Alleged CPP chief arrested in Negros
Operatives from the Negros Occidental Police Command, along with policemen from the Bago PNP, arrested Randal Echaniz, 60, of Pateros, Rizal on Monday by virtue of an arrest warrant for the crime of multiple murder issued by Leyte Judge Ephraim Abando.
Echaniz, together with exiled CPP leader Jose Maria Sison and Sectoral Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna, is facing charges for 15 counts of murder in Hilongos,
Provincial police director Senior Superintendent Rosendo Franco also said that they are validating information that Echaniz also chairs the Peasant Committee of CPP, a political wing of the New People’s Army.
The arrest of Echaniz, however, was denounced by militant groups, claiming that it was a case of mistaken identity.
Carl Ala, information officer of the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas, said Echaniz is not a CPP Central Committee member but a KMP external deputy secretary general who is in
He added that Echaniz could not have taken part in the summary execution of those people buried in alleged mass graves in Leyte during the 1980’s as he was detained at Bicutan during that time.
Sara Alvarez of Karapatan-Negros, in an interview with Aksyon Radyo, that the arrested person was not Echaniz but Rodolfo “Rudy” de Castro, a KMP member.
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