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CAMP DANGWA, Benguet: One of the prime suspects in
the assassination of former renegade priest Conrado “Ka Ambo”
Balweg in 1999 was arrested in Baguio on April 21, the police
reported.
Intelligence operatives of the
Benguet Provincial Police Officer lead by Senior Supt. Moro Lazo
arrested Fransisco Jun Bonoan alias Cesar and Jojo in Barangay
Irisan by virtue of an arrest warrant.
Supt. Joseph Adnol, chief
information officer of the Cordillera police command, said that
Bonoan is the acting secretary of the New People’s Army Urban
White Area Committee and concurrent member of the executive
committee of the NPA’s Ilocos-Cordillera Regional Committee.
It was not immediately known if
Bonoan resisted arrest when accosted by the Benguet police with the
help of agents from the Regional Intelligence Officer and Cordillera
police command.
Balweg was assassinated by NPA
cadres inside his ancestral house in Malibcong, Abra, on December
31, 1999, or more than a decade after he lead the Cordillera
People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) sign a peace pact with the Aquino
government.
Balweg, a priest turned rebel
leader, formed the CPLA and defected from the mainstream CPP-NPA due
to conflicting ideologies.
 --Harley
Palangchao
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