CPP/Ang Bayan: AFP suffers 29 casualties in Southern Mindanao

From the English language edition of the CPP propaganda publication Ang Bayan (Jul 7): AFP suffers 29 casualties in Southern Mindanao

Thirteen soldiers were killed and 16 wounded in successive military actions launched by the Comval-North Davao-South Agusan Subregional Command and the Comval-Davao East Coast Subregional Command of the New People’s Army (NPA) on June 20, 22 and 30 in Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte and Davao Oriental.

Davao del Norte. NPA Red fighters thwarted an attempt by 72nd IB troops to encircle them by deploying command-detonated explosives on attacking soldiers in Sitio Mabuhay, Barangay Dacudao, San Isidro at around 6 a.m. of June 22. A soldier was killed and three others wounded. An NPA member was martyred in this firefight.

Compostela Valley. Two elements of the 25th IB were killed and one other soldier wounded in a CDX operation by an NPA unit in Sitio Saog, Barangay San Isidro, Monkayo at around 5:30 a.m. of June 20. Four hours later, two other troops from the same battalion were wounded in a CDX operation by Red fighters in Sitio Anagase, Barangay Casoonof the same town.

At 3 p.m. of June 22, Red guerrillas launched another CDX operation, killing five elements of the 46th IB and wounding four others in Barangay Ampawid in Laak town.

These military actions were conducted in the face of an intensified counterrevolutionary campaign in the area by the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command in the second half of June. Nine AFP platoons launched military operations in Laak and six other platoons in Monkayo. Military forces were also dispatched to almost all barangays in Veruela and three platoons sent to Loreto in Agusan del Sur, while three other platoons were sent to Kapalong, Davao del Norte.

The heightened military operation comes on the heels of the killing by AFP elements of civilians Wilfredo Estrebillo and Flaviano Morales in Davao del Norte this June.
Davao Oriental. Five soldiers under the 67th IB were killed and six others wounded in a CDX operation by Red fighters of the Comval-Davao East Coast Subregional Command in Barangay Aliwagwag, Cateel at around 10 a.m. of June 30. The soldiers were then on patrol.

The abusive 67th IB troops are protectors of destructive large-scale loggers in the province. Despite the massive devastation of typhoon Pablo in Davao Oriental in 2012, large-scale logging goes on unabated in the remaining forests. Bureaucrat capitalists in the area like Gov. Corazon Malanyaon and Rep. Elmer Dayanghirang also support large-scale logging in the province. Cateel mayor Camilo Nuñez himself is a big logger.

[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and views on current issues. Ang Bayan comes out fortnightly and is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Ilokano, Waray, Hiligaynon and English.]

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