Years later, the CPP would own up that the “findings” that led to the executions were largely baseless, and that it committed a monumental error with those purges.Įxcerpts from: Of Rites & Rights: The Pi Sigma Story 1972-2007 (Part III - A: The Brods Martyrs) pp.
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His execution was part of a series of purges that the revolutionary underground carried out in the mid-‘80s. In 1985, reports reaching brods said that Tigs was executed on suspicion of being a DPA (deep penetration agent). Although I do not know the details, I heard that he played a large part in the resurgence of the urban protest movement in Mindanao, and was behind the wave of Mindanao-wide people's strikes that rocked the island between 19.
When Li decided to return to Mindanao in 1980, I would not be surprised if he had applied mass recruitment as a method of organizing. He was instrumental in reviving the sorority and in establishing Pi Sigma chapters in the Visayas and Mindanao. He was also probably the best recruiter in the frat during our time. I remember him fondly as the quintessential ‘action man’-a ‘doer’ rather than a talker. And yet, when it came to the serious stuff, the things that mattered, we always delivered. We were arguably the loudest and happiest group of people in the university during those heady days. Benny recalls, “it was Tigs’ laughter which often reverberated across the second floor of Palma Hall.
Tigs became the Deputy Lord Excelsius when the L.E. Lionel, more popularly known to UP Diliman brods as Tigs, joined the frat (Pi Sigma) as a member of batch '78-A. Studied in the College of Music, UP Dilimanĭeputy Lord Excelsius, Pi Sigma Fraternity, Batch 78-A
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