CPP/Ang Bayan: Peasant slain; 2 abducted in Agusan del Sur

Propaganda article from the Tagalog language edition of the CPP online publication Ang Bayan (Dec 7): Peasant slain; 2 abducted in Agusan del Sur

Two brothers forced by soldiers to serve as guides in their military operations failed to return home and remain missing to date. The soldiers likewise killed a third brother.
Philip Poloyapoy, 31, and his brothers Pelems, 22 and Fil John, 24 told their mother Julia on November 1 that they would be going to their hut at the family farm, about two kilometers from their house in Bagong Silang, Bayugan 3, Rosario, Agusan del Sur. Fil John said he was going back for some clothes he had left at the hut, while Pelems said he would be going there to retrieve his cellphone charger. But none of them was able to come back home. One of Julia’s neighbors said she had seen the three brothers on the road with soldiers from the 75th IB.

On November 2, at around 9 a.m., Julia’s family heard shots from the direction of their farm. They again heard shots at around 12 noon. By 5 p.m., neighbors told Julia that Fil John was among the dead being brought back by soldiers to Barangay Consuelo in the neighboring town of Bunawan. Fil John sustained two gunshot wounds to the chest. News reports said there had been an encounter between the 75th IB and the New People’s Army (NPA). The military claimed that Fil John was an " NPA platoon leader."

Nothing came out of the Poloyapoy family’s attempts to inquire about Fil John’s death from the military and look for Philip and Pelems at the 75th IB detachment with the assistance of local government officials.

The Poloyapoys have joined the Manilakbayan 2014 delegation to bare what their family has suffered and seek justice.

Meanwhile, in Bukidnon, a 16-year old girl was raped by a soldier from the 84th IB. In a picket-rally in front of the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command on November 25, Girlie (not her real name) recounted that on November 17, a soldier whose identity she did not disclose, waited for her husband to leave the house before forcing himself in to rape her. The soldier covered her face with a pillow to prevent her from shouting for help and shoved aside her young son before proceeding to rape her.

[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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