In Memory of Serafin Dinsay, Jr

Serafin was a classmate and friend when I was first year high school at St. Augustine Academy, Bayawan, Negros Oriental. I was shocked in 2004 when I learned he was murdered in Bayawan on his way to Sta. Catalina - it was a robbery case. Serafin's group was bringing the payroll money from a bank in Bayawan.

Here are some excerpts news I got in net after searching his name:

From Sunstar Dumaguete:

Saturday, February 12, 2005
Communist party leader says Amaro 'murdered'
By Edmund Sestoso

"He said the leadership confirmed the rubout angle after an inspection of the body that showed bullet wounds on the back.

Amaro brothers, Julito, alias Ka Julo and Jaime, along with Raul Villar, alias Ka Drilon, are wanted for the May 18, 2002 payroll robbery holdup and multiple murders in Sta. Catalina.

Killed in that P370,000 heist were Sta. Catalina municipal employees Librado Dagat, bookkeeper Winnie Capunong, L-300 van driver Serafin Dinsay, and midwife Virginia Edrial.

The two Amaros, former members of the Revolutionary Proletariat Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade, soon after returned to their former NPA group after they were disowned by their former comrades."

The Visayan Daily Star:

Convicted NPA leader
vows to continue ‘fight’
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

"He was meted a life term last July 15, 2008, for the robbery with multiple homicide charges in relation to the death of four people in Bayawan, Negros Oriental last May 10, 2002.

In that incident, Librado Dagat, Serafin Dinsay, Jr., Winnie Capunong, and Virginia Edrial, all of Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental, were killed when the government-owned vehicle they were riding was waylaid by armed men.

The victims were just returning after withdrawing payroll money of more than P300,000 when the heist was staged in Barangay Maninihon, Bayawan.

Witnesses later identified the suspects as Villar, the alleged mastermind, and brothers Julito and Jaime Amaro.

The Amaro brothers bolted from the provincial jail several time after they were captured, and one was killed in an encounter later with government troops while another is still at large."

From Radio Pinoy USA:

WEBSITE FOR NPA VICTIMS ON THE LAUNCHING PAD
By : SOURCE ONLINE
2007-03-01 02:39:44

"Rudy Asuncion of Guihulngan; Eddie Daba of Isabela; Inocencio Samson of Manapla; Alladin Flores of Escalante City; Roldolfo Abayon of Victorias City and Serafin Dinsay, Jr. of Bayawan City. "

From PR-INSIDE.COM

3 BROTHERS GET LIFE FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS & ROBBERY IN PHILIPPINE COURT

2008-07-16 18:25:01 - Court metes life on 'NPA' leader, and brothers
By Judy Flores-Partlow and Juancho Gallarde

"
To recall, Villar and the Amaro brothers were charged in court after they robbed and killed four employees of the Sta. Catalina municipal government on May 8, 2002.

The victims, Librado Dagat, Serafin Dinsay, Jr., Winnie Capunong and Virginia Edrial, were returning to Sta. Catalina in a government-owned ambulance when they were waylaid by armed men and forcibly taken to Barangay Maninihon, Bayawan City."