THE family of slain New People’s Army’s commander Domingo Jaspe Compoc, a.k.a “Silong” and “Cobra,” categorically and strongly refused that the corpse of the rebel leader be processed by autopsy or post-mortem procedure as requested by human rights and other groups.
Compoc’s wife Hermosilia Villamor, who admitted she was also a member of the armed struggle but surrendered in 2016, told an interview that she will not allow her husband to be conducted an autopsy.
She said she won’t even allow any group who may conduct “pagpupugay” or honoring the dead comrades as they used to.
In a separate chat, the eldest Roly P. Sumbelon also will not let any form of post-mortem procedure of his slain father, Domingo J. Compoc, who is being laid to rest yesterday afternoon at the Hanopol cemetery after a mass.
He said, we (his family) want peace and his father is already in peace.
When asked why there is a presence of military men during the wake of her husband, Villamor said it is the wish of the family for security reasons considering that they’re still under the custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Sumbelon said that they (the family) took the corpse of his father at his residence in Hanopol despite the request of Compoc’s relatives for his wake in barangay Dagohoy, Bilar, where Compoc resided and grew up.
Sumbelon’s younger brother, Jngler Compoc, who was shot dead in September last year in an encounter, was not around when the family came together for the first time.
Jirelou Compoc, the youngest sister, was able to visit the remains of his father (Domingo Compoc) sometime last week despite her hectic schedule of training to become a Coast Guard personnel. She was a valedictorian in Batuan elementary and a cum laude in Trinidad Municipal College as a scholar for her college degree, Villamor said.
Compoc along with four other comrades, including Hannah Joy Cesista, a.k.a. “Maya/Lean” was one of the five Bohol Party Committee (BPC) members who were killed in an what the army called an encounter in barangay Campagao, Bilar, Bohol on Feb. 23.
The other slain rebels were identified as Parlito Segovia, alias “Aldrin,” Marlon Omosura alias “Darwin,” and a certain alias “Juaning.”
Also killed on the government side was a policeman identified as PCPL Gilbert Amper and injured cop PCPL Gerald Rollon who is declared stable. (ricobedencio@yahoo.com)
