Communist rebels operating in Negros Island may ordered a hit on Dr. Mary Rose Sancelan and her husband killed for disowning the New People’s Army (NPA) when she was Red-tagged in 2017, a ranking police official said.
This, as Brig. Gen. Ronnie Montejo, director of the Central Visayas regional police, insisted that Sancelan had links with the local communist rebels through what he described as a Left-leaning religious group Secular Franciscan Order wherein she was an active member way back during her student days.Montejo said that Sancelan was also monitored to be providing medical needs to wounded communist rebels.
But Montejo said that the NPA-related killing is just one of the two angles they are looking into as the motive behind the assassination of the Sancelan couple in a subdivision in Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental in November 15.