CPP: CPP rejects AFP fecal-brained psywar line that NPA smears explosives with human waste

From the CPP Website (Sep 5): CPP rejects AFP fecal-brained psywar line that NPA smears explosives with human waste

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) flatly rejected as “baseless, desperate and fecal-brained” the psywar claims made by officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that the New People’s Army (NPA) smears explosives with human feces.

The AFP made these pronouncements yesterday after claiming that soldiers wounded in an NPA attack Tuesday morning in Napnapan, Pantukan, Compostela Valley were tested positive for bacteria commonly found in the human gut.

“The purpose of explosives detonated on command is to momentarily stun and immobilize the enemy, thereby enabling the guerrillas to maintain the initiative in battle and maximize the employment of tactical superior firepower, and not to subject anyone to bacterial infection.”

“Any medical practitioner knows that open wounds, especially if not treated promptly, can be infected with bacteria, especially those that cause tetanus,” said the CPP.

“A medical doctor interviewed on national television also explained that the intestinal bacteria allegedly found by AFP doctors in shrapnel extracted from the wounded soldiers have limited life spans outside of the gut and are harmless unless ingested.”

“The AFP has resorted to such base psywar propaganda in the desperate hope of depicting the NPA as using ‘bacterial weapons’ and in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL),” said the CPP.

The CPP reiterated that under IHL and the Ottawa conventions against land mines, the guerrilla forces of the NPA are allowed to employ command-detonated explosives as a legitimate weapon in waging revolutionary war.

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20130905_cpp-rejects-afp-fecal-brained-psywar-line-that-npa-smears-explosives-with-human-waste