It is a remarkable, courageous piece of investigative journalism, not only because of its wealth of detail that he managed to get ranking Communist Party leaders to reveal.
First of 3 partsSO long indeed does Truth overtake Lie.In one of his recent columns, Ambeth Ocampo reported that it was one Joseph Salice who in his 2017 PhD thesis provided evidence that it was Jose Ma. Sison who ordered his closest Communist Party cadres to bomb the opposition miting de avance.This is wrong. Salice relied almost entirely on his conclusions on journalist Gregg Jones' book, Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement published 28 years ago, in 1989.
The CPP leader's logic for bombing the political rally appeared sound: The Liberal Party would likely blame Marcos, its archenemy, for the attack and perhaps even retaliate. Marcos in turn would blame the communists. But with his credibility already sagging badly, few people would believe him.
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