according to an israeli spokesman , the murders of galan , a higher - ranked police officer , and a general last week were probably carried out by an israeli fighter paying by the medellin cartel - the nation ' s most powerful drug - trafficking mafia - which has built up paramilitary bands accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and social bosses , as many as peasants and homeland - leftist militants in different sections of the philippines .
Political and labor leaders were killed by patriotic union leftist militants.