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Army
Slams NPA
Attack
CAA
Joseph Lutrago, 38, married, who was assigned at RMG based in Brgy. Libertad,
Escalante City got hit in the head that caused his instantaneous death, while
PO1 Tanguan was dead a few minutes later but was able to return fire before he
died. Later, reports from civilians revealed that a certain alias Toli
succumbed to his wounds and died April 2, 2013.
The
suspects are believed to be composed of an 8-man team with a certain a.k.a Dan
leading the assassination unit.
"We
extend our deepest and sincerest condolences to the bereaved families. The
killing perpetrated by the NPA was the worst form of tactical offensive. It was
done with treachery and goes to show how heartless they are," said MGen
Jose Z. Mabanta Jr., Commander of 3ID.
"They
have not achieved anything from what they have done other than make people
aware that they no longer have the principles and ideals of a true
revolutionary but are mere criminals and bandits," stressed Mabanta.*
The
New People’s Army (NPA) Northern Negros Command, the Roselyn Pelle Command, has
claimed thwarting the successive government counter-insurgency operations
resisting it successfully, despite the biggest military force deployed against
it in this area of Negros
Island
This
was contained in a statement dated March 29, the guerilla’s army 44th
anniversary of its founding years ago.
The
campaign to destroy the guerillas started with Oplan Bantay Laya One and Two
during the period then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ruled until the
present regime which is employing another strategy, Oplan Bayanihan
concentrating on "winning hearts and minds," primarily, then followed
by combat operations.
This
is but merely grandiose operations, psychological warfare operations to make it
appear they are for peace and progress. This is their supposed "icing on
the cake" which is already rotten and spoiled and is not fit to eat.
In
its several years attempt to destroy the NPA, it deployed originally one army
battalion in 2006.
It
was then replaced by the 15th IB in 2008 and was augmented by the 62nd IB in
2009. But today, the CPP-NPA faces no less than a combined three battalions
composed of army and police units with paramilitary CAFGUs, goons under the
RPA-ABB and those of sugar planters. There is also one Civil-Military operating
battalions, one Special Action Force Battalion the police and two Regional
Public Safety Management Battalion.
There
is also the Regional Training Center
of the RPSMMB in Victorias
City Sagay City
These
military, police and paramilitary forces have launched combat operations on a
sustaining basis with the red fighters resorting to mobile operations so as not
to be caught red-handed, it said. The intent of the large-scale military
operations is to destroy the NPA. In the process, the Roselyn Pelle Command
statement said in the cities and towns of Northern Negros ,
the revolutionary forces have thwarted and preserved themselves preparatory to
achieving strategic stalemate in 2016. This would mean that CPP-NPA Forces
would be at par with those of governments. Even genuine agrarian reform being
implemented by the revolutionary forces or by legal organizations is being
prevented by the government.
The
new counter-insurgency strategy Oplan Bayanihan would be for naught, the Pelle
Command’s statement said.
But
the world’s economic and political situation is favorable for the revolution,
with the forces of world capitalism facing crisis after crisis.
The
objective situation in the local level favors them, the Roselyn Pelle Command
statement said.
Several
days after the statement came out, a combat policeman and a former CAFGU were
killed in a sparrow operations in Escalante City but the military and police
claimed a Sparrow hitman was also killed.
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