CABANATUAN CITY - Police arrested a ranking official of the communist movement in the Philippines, particularly Central Luzon on Wednesday, a week after the remains of a student activist was dug out from a shallow grave in San Jose City.
Senior Supt. Alex Paul I. Monteagudo, Nueva Ecija police director, identified the communist rebel as Leopoldo Caluza, 49. He was the secretary general of the NUeva Ecija Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the chief of the New People's Army in Central Luzon (Region 3) in the late 1990s, according to police.
A rebel returnee who led a government team to unearth the remains of 19-year-old Kathleen Ramos in Kaliwanagan, San Jose City last Oct. 5, said it was Caluza who ordered the killing of the student on suspicion she was a military asset, having a soldier relative.
Ramos was a member of the militant League of Filipino Students (LFS) at the state-run Central Luzon State University at the time of her disappearance in Oct. 2002.
Caluza was undergoing tactical interrogation as of press time.
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