The Roselyn Pelle Command of the Northern Negros Guerilla Front announced that it has issued another batch of what it calls “arrest warrants” against a barangay kagawad and a civilian serving as “military informants”, two members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade and a government militiaman linked to murder cases, and engaged in counter-revolutionary activities.
Local rebel spokesman Cecil Estrella, in a statement issued to the media, identified the persons with so-called arrest warrants as Rosel Dada, a kagawad of Brgy. San Isidro, Toboso, RPA-ABB members Mumar Alingasa and a certain Ezekiel, alias Itsoy, a civilian identified as Mariel Encarguez, alias Kulafu, and an alias Bravo, a CAFGU member.
Estrella encouraged the five individuals to surrender and present themselves to the revolutionary court for their safety.
Col. Jon Aying, 303 rd Infantry Brigade commander, however, yesterday described the so-called issuance of a arrest warrants by the NPA as a “simple criminal act or lawlessness through threat and intimidation.”
Lt. Col. Efren Morados, 62 nd Infantry Battalion, had earlier reported that two barangay captains and some civilians accused of being military informants in northern Negros, are reportedly included in the hit list of the New People's Army.
Morados, who withheld their identities, said they have informed the targeted barangay officials about the death threats, and have also initiated precautionary measures to thwart the rebel liquidation activities.
He added that the two barangay officials got the ire of rebels for mobilizing their constituents, and for not allowing insurgents to enter their areas. Meanwhile, civilians tagged as military informants, were accused of being actively involved in anti-revolutionary activities.
Estrella claimed that Alingasa has a pending case of murder, in connection with the death of Jun Jun Vaflor, a peasant leader in Sitio Vergara, Brgy. Bug-ang, Toboso, while Ezekiel allegedly harassed farmers in the same barangay.
Encarguez, Bravo and Dada, on the other hand, are intelligence assets of the 62 nd Infantry Battalion , Estrella claimed.
With the issuance of arrest warrants for espionage, Estrella said Kulafu, Itsoy, Kitloy and Bravo are “legitimate targets” of the NPA counter-offensives.
Early this year, the Roselyn Pelle Command announced that it has issued arrest warrants against three civilians, including a retired Constabulary officer, accused of alleged landgrabbing, murder and frustrated murder in Calatrava and Toboso towns.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2013/September/02/topstory8.htm
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