The Communist Party of the Philippines confirmed Thursday the deaths of its high-ranking officials Benito Tiamzon, Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, and eight others—a group the party called the Catbalogan 10—during a firefight in Samar last year.
The Tiamzon couple were convicted in 2020 for kidnapping and serious illegal detention of military officers in 1988. A manhunt was later ordered for their capture.
Retired Major General Eduardo de Leon, who commanded the 8th Infantry Division in its operation involving unnamed “high-ranking” rebels in Samar that time, maintained it was not clear if the Tiamzons were among the casualties.
At the time, Benito, 71, served as the group’s executive committee chairperson, while his wife, Wilma, 70, was the CPP’s secretary general. The date coincides with the 50th anniversary of National Democratic Front of the Philippines, of which the Tiamzons were consultants. CPP said based on the information they gathered from sources they did not identify, the Tiamzon couple and their party were allegedly tortured with their faces and bodies badly beaten by hard objects.
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