CPP/Ang Bayan: NPA ambushes 50th IB in Ilocos Sur

From the English language edition of the CPP propaganda publication, Ang Bayan (May 7): NPA ambushes 50th IB in Ilocos Sur

Red fighters under the Alfredo Cesar Command (New People’s Army-Ilocos Sur) launched back-to-back ambushes on the 50th IB on May 1 and 2. All in all, seven soldiers were killed and at least eight were wounded in these ambuscades.

Three 50th IB troopers were killed while two others were wounded in an NPA ambush in Barangay Remedios, Cervantes, about a kilometer away from the battalion’s headquarters. The day after, the NPA ambushed military reinforcements in Barangay Malideg, in the adjacent town of Quirino, killing four soldiers and seriously wounding at least six troopers.

According to Ka Armando Silva, spokesperson of the Alfredo Cesar Command, the two victorious ambushes form part of the NPA’s punitive actions to give justice to the countless victims of the 50th IB’s human rights violations. In particular, the battalion was also punished for its all-out defense of the interests of large-scale and destructive mining operations in the Ilocos region, such as those of Lepanto Consolidated Mining.

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