IT IS idle and malicious for anyone to speculate or insinuate that
I have something to do with the killing of Romulo Kintanar. I am being
given too much credit.
The political, military and police officials of the reactionary government
should not jump to any conclusion far ahead of the findings and conclusions
of any credible police investigation.
Otherwise the public would sense that the reactionary authorities
are trying to cover up something and are not really interested in
discovering the truth.
At least three theories have surfaced:
1. After becoming an intelligence operative of the military and police,
under the guise of being a "consultant" and then security
chief of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation, Kintanar became
involved in numerous criminal operations in which corrupt military
and police officers were either his cooperators or his rivals and
enemies.
The criminal operations included protection rackets, armed robbery,
murder for hire, collection of unwarranted fees from overseas contract
workers and sale of women entertainers abroad. It is reported that
Kintanar became involved even in the Nida Blanca murder case, in which
a large amount of money from a high politician was a stake.
2. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Special Forces have long
been known as seething with hatred over the killing of some US military
personnel, particularly JUSMAG official Col. James Rowe, in the 1988-1990
period when Kintanar was in charge of the New People's Army (NPA).
The US seemed uninterested in holding him to account for the aforesaid
killing of Americans. Instead, it has now and then unjustly blamed
me for those killings. The killing of Kintanar could be the prelude
to one more assassination plot against me, particularly under the
wide latitude given by Bush to CIA covert operatives to engage in
"wet operations" or assassinations.
3. It is widely known that Kintanar made himself liable for punishment
by the revolutionary forces because of the crimes he committed while
he was inside the revolutionary movement and after he became an enemy
intelligence agent. He earned a lot of blood money by betraying revolutionaries
and by engaging in criminal operations.
If any revolutionary force punished Kintanar, it would likely admit
responsibility in due time. If he was killed by his rivals and enemies
in the criminal world or by the CIA and its local assets, then there
would be no reason to wait for any statement of responsibility from
any revolutionary force. It would also be unlikely that the police
investigators would ever come up with credible findings and conclusions.
As far as I am concerned, I have never taken any interest in Kintanar
other than publicly exposing his criminal activities, which were either
damaging to the people and the national democratic movement or threatening
to my life and physical integrity in the last year of Estrada's presidency.
Every time that I denounced him, I was satisfied that I was able to
expose and frustrate him to some extent in his wrongdoing.
Obviously, Kintanar took a self-destructive course by becoming an
intelligence agent of the reactionary government, engaging in criminal
operations and getting mixed up in the rivalries and enmities of military
and police officers.
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Prof. Sison is the Chief Political Consultant of the National democratic
Front of the Philippines.
