CPP/NPA: Tactical offensives launched in Panay

From the December 7 edition of the CPP publication Ang Bayan: Tactical offensives launched in Panay

Three enemy elements were killed and seven were wounded, including members of the bandit Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA) in tactical offensives launched by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Panay’s Southern Front from August to October.

The enemy suffered two killed and four wounded in an ambush by a unit under the Napoleon Tu-magtang Command (NTC-NPA) on a column of the 82nd IB Bravo Coy in Sitio Tabionan, Barangay Bucari, Leon, Iloilo on October 27, at around 7:30 a.m. In an article published in Daba-Daba, the revolutionary mass newspaper in Panay, the ambushed unit of the 82nd IB was one of four military columns scouring the forest in hopes of encountering the NPA. Two soldiers were killed in the first volley of fire. The second enemy column quickly sent reinforcements but the NPA unit had already retreated to safer ground.....

.....That afternoon, the 61st IB and 31st DRC arrived as reinforcements from central Panay. They were fired upon by another NPA unit in Barangay Danao, Leon town which is adjacent to Tabionan.

At around 7 a.m. the day after, an NPA unit harassed the 82nd IB Alpha Coy command post in Barangay Lanag, Tubungan, sending the soldiers who were then playing basketball in the plaza scampering in different directions and leaving their firearms behind. Their commanding officer who was sleeping, was surprised to wake up, seeing the detachment completely deserted.

Earlier, on September 27, an RPA element was killed and two others wounded in an ambush by NPA fighters under the NTC-NPA in Barangay Va-lentin Grasparil, Sibalom, Antique. The NPA confiscated a carbine, two short arms, ammunition, a grenade, other military equipment and documents. On August 27, a soldier from the 82nd IB was wounded in an encounter with an NPA unit in Barangay Onop, Miag-ao, Iloilo.

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