The retired general of the Samar-based Army division allegedly responsible for the deaths of CPP leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon described the rebels’ claim that they had been captured on land, tortured, and then killed as “propaganda” and “drama.”
A press release by Marco Valbuena, the CPP’s chief information officer, cited a months’ long probe by the CPP central committee.
The Tiamzons and their companions were already dead when troops dumped their bodies on a motorboat filled with explosives and tugged from the waters off Catbalogan midway toward Taranganan island before detonation, the CPP said. The CPP April 20 statement said the political bureau and its executive committee received confirmation and capture of the killings within a few days. In the September 2022 series of interviews, De Leon used the third person when discussing the military operation.
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