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Minutes before midnight, men posted on both sides of a street in suburban Manila opened fire on a passing car, killing two people and wounding Bernardo Buscayno, 43, the probable target of the ambush. Attacks by urban guerrillas of the left and right are not unusual in Manila, but this time the public furor was enormous...
...Buscayno, or Commander Dante as he is popularly known, is something of a legend in the Philippines. The alleged commander in chief of the Communist New People's Army from its founding in 1969 until his capture in 1977, Dante pledged to fight for his ideals from within the system after President Corazon Aquino released him from jail in 1986. Though he lost a bid for the Senate last month, Dante was warmly received even by people who did not agree with him. After reports surfaced last week that the attackers were dressed in army fatigues, a military spokesman said...
...going on, President Aquino also had to deal with more routine government business. Last week she kept her campaign pledge by releasing all known political prisoners of the Marcos era. Among them were were Jose Maria Sison, 47, founder and former chairman of the outlawed Communist Party; Bernabe Buscayno, 42, the alleged founder of the New People's Army, the party's guerrilla arm; and two members of a rebel hit squad. The four reputed Communists were freed over the objections of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos. Aquino's move may prove...
Many Filipinos doubted that Buscayno, a Communist guerrilla since the age of 16, could have been caught in such a simple, old-fashioned trap. To them it seemed more likely to have been a typical Filipino maneuver: lutong macao, or precooking. Dante might have consented to his own capture because of tension within his movement between younger urban activists and rural guerrillas like himself...
Dubious Charges. The captured Buscayno will go on trial this week before a military tribunal-along with his second in command in the N.P.A., Victor Corpuz, and Benigno Aquino Jr., the former Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate, who has been confined for the past four years on dubious charges that he was an N.P.A. leader.* They will almost surely be convicted, but they stand a good chance of a presidential pardon if they make confessions and come over to the government side...