CPP/Ang Bayan: NPA disarms Dolefil-Stanfilco cohort

From Ang Bayan, the official news/propaganda organ of the CPP (Mar 7): NPA disarms Dolefil-Stanfilco cohort

Red fighters of NPA Front 72 in Mindanao disarmed men of the notorious Baclid Brothers in Sitio Lacobe, Barangay Malabuan, Makilala, North Cotabato on February 23. Brothers Toks and Teding Baclid are CAFGU elements under the Philippine Army 38th IB and collaborators of Dolefil-Stanfilco.

According to initial reports, the NPA seized an M79 grenade launcher, two cal .38 revolvers, eight home-made Uzi machine pistols and five home-made Ingram machine pistols.

In a statement, NDF-Far South Mindanao Region spokesperson Ka Efren also reported that the farmers in the area were also elated at recovering the land seized earlier from them by the Baclid Brothers.

In 2004, the Baclid Brothers were armed by the 38th IB and former North Cotabato Gov. Manny Piñol to evict 60 farming families from Sitio Lacobe and seize 178 hectares of productive land planted to rubber trees.

The landgrabbing was perpetrated simultaneous with an intense military operation in the area by the 602nd Brigade to protect Dole-Stanfilco which was then rapidly expanding its banana plantations. CAFGU detachments were built in strategic barangays around the Dole-Stanfilco plantation, including Barangay Malabuan.

Eventually, the Baclid Brothers also annexed another 600 hectares from the neighboring barangays of Bato and Villa Flores. Because most of the landgrabbing victims were beneficiaries of the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, they filed a case at the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB). But the board threw out the case in January on the pretext that there was no existing agrarian issue as there were no prevailing landlord-tenant relations between the parties involved.

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