NPA Flays Military Out-of-Tune Psywar Ops

From the Negros Daily Bulletin (Mar 12): NPA Flays Military Out-of-Tune Psywar Ops

The New People’s Army (NPA), specifically the Roselyn Pelle Command in Northern Negros through its spokesperson with the nom de guerre Ka Cecil Estrella, has tagged a ranking officer of the 3rd Infantry Division, as once more singing an out-of-tune song by debunking various victories, achieved by the guerilla army in its various tactical offensives lately.

Among the issues mentioned by Ka Cecil Estrella which the military has debunked by resorting to outright lies and the usual psychological warfare are the Roselyn Pelle Command, Northern Negros, offensives against the Regional Public Safety Battalion Detachment in Libertad Village, Escalante City, on February 25, 2013, the continuing supposed "infighting" within the NPA, deaths, guerillas going AWOL, wounded, demoralized and internal strives. In addition, there is the so-called Oplan Hilamon concocted by army commanders and by Major Gen. Jose Mabanta, 3rd ID Commanding Officer, said Ka Cecil.

All of these are but psychological warfare tactics and are in fact, lies, she said.

The military officialdom have also resorted to their total denial policy as in the recent La Castellana encounter with the denial bordering on their denying that they allowed villagers, all civilians to ride in vehicles utilized by armed components of the military which should be a no-no in theaters of war.

They allowed civilians to take vehicles, the military and the counter-insurgency BPAT elements also took, intending to use these as propaganda and creating of civilians as collateral damage.

The NPAs’ acceptance of the civilian casualties as a result of the military’s act of letting civilians take military transport is in fact proof that they are real soldiers of the people, who are not afraid of accepting responsibility in the process of war and fighting.

The guerillas have also tightly grasped the lesson of this La Castellana incident, and hope this will not happen anew, Ka Cecil said.

On the other hand, the military has always adopted its "total denial policy." All these are positions and ideas the military can adopt especially in uncountable human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian laws it has committed through the years.

The Roselyn Pelle Command (RPC) said Ka Cecil is, therefore, calling on civilians to heed appeals not to ride in trucks and vehicles owned by the military. This is so that their lives could not be endangered, she added

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