Satur Ocampo
| Satur C. Ocampo | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Bayan Muna Partylist | |
| In office June 30, 2001 – June 30, 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Saturnino Cunanan Ocampo April 7, 1939 Santa Rita, Pampanga, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party | Bayan Muna |
| Other political affiliations |
Guest candidate for Nacionalista Party for senator (2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Carolina Malay |
| Profession | Writer, journalist |
Satur Ocampo (born April 7, 1939) is a Filipino party-list representative, journalist, and writer. As party president and first nominee, he led the party-list group Bayan Muna in three successful elections. He was a member of the House of Representatives, and Deputy Minority Leader in the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He has done work in human rights and other areas. After his three terms as congressman, he ran for senator in the May 2010 elections; together with Representative Liza Maza of the women's partylist group GABRIELA, Ocampo became a guest senatorial candidate of the Nacionalista Party, a mainstream Philippine political party and supported its presidential standard bearer, Senator Manny Villar. After the elections, on Aug. 21, 2010, Ocampo started a weekly opinion column in the Philippine Star titled "At Ground Level".
Martial law
President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law on September 21, 1972 and Ocampo, among others, went underground. In 1973, Ocampo co-founded the National Democratic Front, seeking to unite various anti-dictatorship forces.
In 1976, he was arrested and incarcerated as a political prisoner. For the next nine years he was severely tortured in various prison camps. At one point, he shared a cell with detained Philippine Collegian editor-in-chief Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. Though tried by a military court for rebellion, he was never found guilty. In 1985, while on pass to vote at the National Press Club annual elections, he escaped from the soldiers guarding him and rejoined the underground revolutionary movement.
After the dictatorship fell in 1986, and President Corazon Aquino called for peace talks and Ocampo headed the NDF peace negotiating panel. When the talks collapsed due to the killing of 18 farmers at a rally near the Malacañan Palace on January 22, 1987, Ocampo returned to the underground.
In 1989, he was rearrested together with his wife, Carolina Malay. Three years later in 1992, a year after his wife was released, he was freed. Neither was found guilty of any crime.
References
External links
- Satur Ocampo official profile from the House of Representatives of the Philippines
- Satur Ocampo official profile from the Bayan Muna website
- Bayan Muna - official website
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