Statement posted to the CPP Website (Nov 6): 1st PBC-NPA punishes 69th IB-AFP, 4 enemy forces killed, 3 firearms confiscated
Leoncio Pitao (Kumander Parago)
Spokesperson
NPA Southern Mindanao (1st Pulang Bagani Company)
Four fascist Army combatants belonging to the 69th Infantry Battalion fought it out against members of the 1st Pulang Bagani Company-New People’s Army at an NPA checkpoint in Purok 5, Barko-barko, Barangay Mapula, Paquibato on Sunday, November 4, 2012. The four armed AFP regulars were killed, one of them died several meters away from the scene, while an NPA member was wounded in the ensuing troops engagement which the AFP ridiculously painted as a brutal murder of its “unarmed, off-duty soldiers.”
The 1st PBC-NPA confiscated three .45 caliber pistols: a 7.45 limited (Serial Number 974502), Colt 45 (SN: 184419) and Norimco .45 (SN: 4234). This as the 10th Infantry Division-Eastern Mindanao Command spun the blatant lie that Sunday’s battle contravened international humanitarian laws. CMO Battalion chief Maj. Jake Obligado, 10th ID spokesperson Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza and Manila-based Phil. Army spokesperson Major Harold Cabunoc were mouthing off violations like torture, extrajudicial killing and hostage-taking like they were reciting a well-rehearsed script. Last Sunday’s battle can hardly be described as massacre or an abduction, for it was a fitting retribution against a notorious Army unit feared and hated by the peasant masses in Paquibato.
The fatalities were armed combatants of the 69th IB Special Operations Team, not defenseless functionaries or civilians falsely depicted by the AFP. They belong to the Army unit responsible for the summary execution of Mires Esdang, a hemp farmer in Barangay Malabog, Paquibato last October 18, and other grave abuses ranging from psychological warfare against peasants, intimidation of families of NPA combatants and forcing them to surrender, coercing civilians to use as guides, and other forms of harassment in the course of its intelligence, triad, strike operations and civil-military operations in Paquibato district.
The four fatalities were not innocent peace advocates or service providers, but were psywar agents and active elements of the AFP implementing the US-Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan. They were armed regulars operating in hinterland villages and were, therefore, legitimate military targets of the NPA. They acted under the baton of the 10th ID-EastMinCom-AFP that rules Paquibato district in virtual garrison, occupying civilian places like village halls, gymnasiums and houses, under the innocuous cover of the erroneously named Peace and Development Program (PDOP) of Oplan Bayanihan....
(SGD.) Ka Parago
1st Pulang Bagani Company
Merardo Arce Command
Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command
New People’s Army
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/1st-pbc-npa-punishes-69th-ib-afp-4-enemy-forces-killed-3-firearms-confiscated
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