CPP/NPA: 17th IB suffers 2 killed and 3 wounded in Dupag ambush

Posted to the CPP Website (Aug 31): 17th IB suffers 2 killed and 3 wounded in Dupag ambush

Tipon Gil-ayab
Spokesperson
NPA Kalinga Provincial Operations Command (Lejo Cawilan Command)

At 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, an ambush was successfully staged by Red fighters from the Abraham Bannawagan Front (ABF) in Dupag, Lubuagan, Kalinga. Two (2) soldiers were killed and three (3) were wounded; and M16 rifle and ammunitions were confiscated by the NPA unit, that retreated safely after the successful ambush.

The NPA tactical offensive was launched as a punitive action against the AFP for the forced recruitment of CAFGU elements in Dupag and for instigating the Lubuagan tribe to launch tribal war against the Mabongtot tribe. Conscription is the desperate move of the US-Aquino Regime to catch up on the failed timetable of Oplan Bayanihan “to render the revolutionary movement irrelevant” by the end of 2013. And instigating tribes people to go against another tribe for petty reasons and non-tribal matters is a dirty ploy of the AFP and their minions in the local bureaucracy to sow division among the people, who are in the process of forging unity against big business ventures in the electric and mining industries, and against militarization.

The people of Kalinga should hold firmly on the positive aspects of tribal culture, especially it’s democratic character of representing the true aspirations of the constituents of indigenous leaders and its glorious tradition of struggle against aggressors, land grabbers and tyrants. The people should resist and condemn the ploy of the AFP in using indigenous socio-political institutions against the indigenous peoples themselves, as in the case of using the bodong system to instigate tribal wars as a result of fighting between the NPA and the AFP/PNP/CAFGU. NPA and AFP/PNP/CAFGU casulaties in the course of a just people’s war should not be held against tribes of combatants from both sides. The people have no recourse but to condemn and disown opportunists in the midst of their tribes such as the politicians and those involved in the MBCC (Mataguan Bodong Consultative Council)
Being true to their record, after the NPA ambush in Dupag yesterday afternoon, the AFP through the 17th IB, indiscriminately launched attacks on nearby villages. M203 grenade launchers were fired in Mabongtot, destroying houses and other properties and forcing women and children to evacuate and find refuge in nearby barrios of Tanglag at Taloctoc.

The Lejo Cawilan Command (NPA-Kalinga) condems these dastardly acts of the 17th IB and,together with the people, will seek justice and punish the violators of indigenous people’s rights, human rights and international humanitarian laws.

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20130831_17th-ib-suffers-2-killed-and-3-wounded-in-dupag-ambush