CPP/Ang Bayan: Oplan Bayanihan fails in Negros

From Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Jan 7): Oplan Bayanihan fails in Negros
 
 Red fighters in Western Mindanao Region (WMR) made a fiery finish to 2013 in simultaneous attacks by company-size forces of the New People’s Army (NPA) on two police headquarters in Misamis Occidental and Zamboanga del Sur at dawn of December 14.

Oplan Bayanihan has failed to crush the revolutionary movement in Negros despite its having been made a national priority by the US-Aquino regime, said Juanito Magbanua II, spokesperson of the Apolinario (Boy) Gatmaitan Command of the New People’s Army in Negros in relation to the 45th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

With the all-out implementation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) “triad operations” consisting of intelligence, “civil-military” and combat operations in the countryside and urban areas, the regime has mobilized the entire local government and deployed to Negros an entire Civil Military Operations battalion and the bulk of the Intelligence Service of the AFP (ISAFP) in Western Visayas. For a more zealous intelligence build-up against the armed movement and the legal democratic movement in the urban areas, the Military Intelligence Battalion (MIB) and the Military Intelligence Company have been stationed in Bacolod City.

There have been up to 39 companies of the Philippine Army, Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC), Scout Rangers, Regional Mobile Group (RMG), Provincial Mobile Group (PMG), CMO and 12th IB CAFGU Handler deployed in Negros since 2010. This is aside from forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Special Action Force (SAF) deployed in the island’s four guerrilla fronts.

Despite the deployment of such a huge enemy force, the AFP has failed to destroy even a single guerrilla front in Negros. Instead, the theater of war has expanded for the armed revolutionary forces.

Mass organizations are being revitalized. The mass base continues to be expanded, while being assidously consolidated by forming and operating barrio organizing committees and full-fledged mass organizations in many villages. The revolutionary forces are now focused on building the municipal chapters of full-fledged mass organizations. A number of barrio revolutionary committees are ready to be formed.

The mass base has been steeled in antifeudal, anti-imperialist and antifascist mass struggles, among them the establishment of land cultivation areas (LCA) which have gained momentum and launching struggles to raise the wages of farmers and farm workers and raise the farm-gate prices of agricultural products, antimining struggles and campaigns against hunger and landgrabbing.

Through small and big tactical offensives launched by the Red fighters in the region, the guerrilla army has been able to accumulate enough high-powered rifles to arm an NPA company and inflict at least 200 casualties on the enemy. Thus, the morale of NPA Red fighters remains high as they fight the mercenary troops of the AFP and the class enemies.

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