The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Panay Regional Committee paid tribute to one of the most distinguished leaders of the revolutionary movement in the region, Roberto Moises Cabales (Comrade William), whom the military and police willfully killed on the night of October 5 in Barangay Coto, Lambunao, Iloilo Province. State forces claimed that Cabales and his companion, Mateo Suarez (Comrade Badong), fought back when served with an arrest warrant.