CSupt. Napenas lashes out at insurgents

From the Philippine News Agency (May 6): CSupt. Napenas lashes out at insurgents

Police Regional Office XIII chief Getulio P. Napenas minces no words in lashing out at the communist insurgents whom he said are out not only to undermine our democratic system but also to disrupt the peacefulness and orderliness of the May 13, 2013 midterm polls.

The Caraga top cop called the NPA rebels "evil" and the Philippine Army Special Forces and their SCAA units "good" while commending them for successfully defending their patrol base against a numerically- superior and heavily-armed NPA rebels who attacked their patrol base located in Brgy. San Antonio, RTR town, Agusan del Norte, 4:30 dawn Saturday.

Napenas, in his message Monday morning during the traditional flag-raising ceremony, said that "good will always triumph over evil." Napenas added that there's no justification why the rebels will harass the CAFGUs and the Army Special Forces whose presence were there just to maintain peace and order in the area and to do community service. "What honor can a group earn for harassing or fighting their fellow Filipinos?" Napenas said.

He said there is no honor in store to a group who forbid candidates to go to a certain place for failure to pay the so-called "permit to campaign" or "permit to win" fees, which according to him are actually extortion activities.

"It is dishonorable, according to him when top communist leader Jose Maria Sison said over the weekend in national papers that his bunch of rebels will intensify their fighting against the government. Its not honorable, he further said, to a group who had the gut to write on a wall which he read at a certain place during his visit to Surigao del Sur province saying, "Rebolusyon, hindi Eleksyon!"(Revolution and not Election!).

Napenas said that "Revolution is the law of the unlearned, the law of the jungle, the way of communism and terrorism. Election is the way of democracy, where the subjects can enjoy their right to elect their leaders or be elected to elective positions."

According to him, communism thrives on the people's passivity. "Let those who wanted to play with communism go to North Korea. There, they really will experience the reality of communism," he said.

Napenas cited the case of Cambodia during the Khmer Rogue takeover where the communist killed all the learned people which resulted to the so-called "Killing Fields." He said that during his travels in Europe, he actually saw the backwardness of the places which were once under communism.

He cited Serbia, Kosovo and Albania which were then under Russian communism as very underdeveloped places. "There is more development under a democratic system of governance than under communism" Napenas stressed.

It will be recalled that at dawn Saturday, about 100 fully armed rebels believed to be a combined force of the Regional Sentro De Grabidad (RSDG) and Guerilla Front 21 of the Northeastern Mindanao Revolutionary Committee (NEMRC) attacked a Special Civilian Active Auxiliary (SCAA) patrol base in Brgy San Antonio, RTR town, Agusan del Norte.

Police accounts said the base-defenders held their ground against the enemy until the reinforcement teams from the Special Forces led by Capt. Bautista, Commanding Officer of the 9SF Company and 1Lt. Balatbat based in Pianing, Butuan City arrived in the area. The firefight lasted for about four hours until the enemy withdrew towards the northern direction.

Pursuing troops recovered an M14 Rifle, a backpack (near the patrol base), a tampered Elisco M16 Rifle, a shotgun, three improvised explosives (at 20 kilos each), six rolls electric wires, three bundles of detonating cord, six blasting caps, 20 more backpacks containing personal belongings, four handgrenades, four bangalores, a rifle grenade, a hand held radio, a Nokia cellular Phone, six ignition board switch, assorted medical supplies, an M14 fully loaded magazine, an empty AK47 magazine, assorted ammunitions for AK47, M16 and M14 and 25 liters of gasoline.

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