People’s Army Lauded by Partners, Allies

From the Negros Daily Bulletin (Apr 1): People’s Army Lauded by Partners, Allies

The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Negros and the main Negros Island Guerilla Command, the Boy Gatmaitan Command, with spokesman Juanito Magbanua, to include the Southwest Negros Front Andres Sumayang Jr. Front with spokesperson Andrea Guerrero released declarations and in written form lauding the guerilla New People’s Army (NPA) which celebrated and commemorated its 45th anniversary, Saturday, March 29, last week.

The three revolutionary entities issued congratulatory messages to the NPA at the same time, relating how it was since it was established in March 29, 1968, during a period when martial law was not declared yet.

It has experienced storied victories in its armed struggle which has no comparison and which at the moment has rocked the foundation of the ultraconservative state and its main political backer, the United States, it said.

The NPA, it said boosted by the best among the children of farmers, workers, middle classes national bourgeoisies and even by landowners and big, middle and small businessmen who have learned to reject their classes, it emphasized.

"The NPA acts as the defender of poor peasants and workers including other downtrodden sectors in Philippine and Negros society against their oppressors, against policies and programs such as the provincial government’s First Agenda and against landgrabbing, he declared in a statement. "This was because the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the provincial government and the Regional Public Safety Battalion Maneuver Battalions (RPSMB), had maneuvered to eject farmers from Murcia town as well as acting as agents of pineapple, palm oil, rubber tree and pasture lands for sheeps and cattle."

This was the same in the hacienda owned by the Sola family and administered and supervised by Gene Sola and John Paul Sola in Kamansi Village in Kabankalan City.
Fernandez also declared that the church should be one with the masses and as Pope Benedict said, should live and suffer like them.

While his comrades, Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, had been arrested while criminal elements such as retired Military Officer Jovito Palparan and Negros fugitive are still scot-free.

The revolutionary movement and the NPA can never be destroyed by the government, he concluded.

On his part, Apolinario Gatmaitan Command Spokesperson, Juanito Magbanua III, related and proudly said, that from about 65 red fighters and hardly nine high-powered automatic rifles it has grown solidly since then.

The NPA, he said, has assumed a critical growth which has shaken the state to its foundation, he said.

The island of Negros, revolutionary movement has, in fact, been is a target which the government intended to destroy under its latest counter-insurgency strategy, Oplan Bayanihan but it has failed to do so, since the year 2007, and years before that.

The military’s "cutting edge" strategy intended to cut off supply lines and communications in and among the islands in the Visayas has dismally failed, it said, although it has spent billions of pesos in the process.

The series of efforts for them to transfer operations in the Visayas, by dealing a blow to the revolutionary movement in the island has failed.

Consolidation politically and organizationally with the launching and finishing of The Batikang Kurso Political-Miltar (BKPM) Intermedyang Kurso as Partido (IKP) and a study of PKM and Yunit Militia (YM) Plenum ng mga Yunit Komite as Prente Larangan have successfully conducted studies and trainings including graduation ceremonies for the People’s Army and the CPP.

The NPAs’ territory has also expanded in areas where the military cannot reach, it said. Military claims that the NPA is weakening is nothing but an illusion, at the same time inviting one and all to join in, it was pointed out.* (to be continued)

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