The returnees who identified themselves as “Ka Helen”, “Ka Miler” and “Ka Winston” who surrendered amid pressures from the government’s anti-insurgency drive in 2006 identified some of the victims as Kathleen Ramos, SPO4 Esteban Bravo, a certain Lovely and Ka Ino.
Ka Ino, Helen said, was punished after undergoing trial for being a government under-cover agent while Ramos, a militant student from Central Luzon State University (CLSU) was suspected of supplying information to her father who was working as intelligence officer at the Nueva Ecija police provincial office (NEPPO).
Lovely, described by Ka Miller as a medium-built woman with excellent shooting proficiency, was tagged as among the gunmen in the bloody protest in Hacienda Luisita last 2005. Bravo, on the other hand, was an intelligence officer of the NEPPO.
The three surfaced with some military officers before the media to “reveal the kind of human rights abuses happening inside the NPA.”
They claimed knowledge on the killing operations by the NPA having served in different capacities. Ka Helen said she was a courier assigned in profiling targets, including an Army colonel and a Born Again preacher.
She was even ordered to join the preachers flock, Ka Helen said.
There are two manners of assassinating targets, the trio explained. The first is “by-missing” which is abducting the target, placing him or her under detention while undergoing trial and killing. The other is “sparrow” or shooting the target to death.
The NPA, Ka Helen said, is especially irked by comrades who provided information to the military.
