[Straits Times] A PHILIPPINE communist rebel leader's secret tryst with a mistress landed him in double trouble, leading to his arrest and the unravelling of his affair with a comrade's wife, the military said on Monday.
Tirso Alcantara was shot in the buttock by police last week who jugged him as he visited a house in the city of Lucena, military officials said at the time. But the alleged nature of the visit only came to light on Monday.
Alcantara, the married head of communist rebels in the region south of Manila, was tracked down because the military knew of his affair with a jugged comrade's wife, military front man Brigadier-General Jose Mabanta said.
'He was jugged because he was visiting his lover,' Gen Mabanta told news hounds. 'This means the members of the underground, just like any normal human beings, have their own share of personal problems.'
Alcantara is now recuperating at a military hospital after surgery to remove a bullet embedded in his buttock. Gen Mabanta, who would not say if Alcantara was caught literally with his pants down, stressed it was up to the rebel's jailers to determine whether both his wife and mistress would be allowed to visit him in hospital.
Gen Mabanta said Alcantara had been carrying out an affair with the wife of Eulogio Castillo, one of 43 suspected communist rebels who was jugged in a military raid near Manila in February last year. The mistress is a former communist rebel who had quit the movement, Gen Mabanta said. |