JUST this Wednesday I traveled to Tagaytay, excited to meet some very important people who know much of the history of the underground movement of which they had been part for a very long time. All of them were members of the First Quarter Storm (FQS) and had been instrumental in that successful "experiment" which until today is creating all these problems that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) is now addressing.

One of these people was a former secretary of the Communist Party of the Philippines' (CPP) Metro Manila and Rizal revolutionary party committee who later became a Cabinet secretary, a diplomat and a writer. He was a key player in the violence and chaos that transpired in Manila, the burning and bombing of power and water utilities, the US embassy, etc., which all precipitated the declaration of martial law.

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