NDFP National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Press Statement
12 September 2015
The NDFP-Mindanao strongly condemns the brutal killing of ALCADEV Executive Director Emerito Samarca, MAPASU Chair Dionel Campos and Datu Juvello Sinzo committed by the combined elements of the 36th IB, 75th IB and the bandit group led by Calpet Igwa and Marcos Bocales. They also burned down the cooperative building of Sitio Han-ayan. As a result, over 3,000 residents from the hinterland barangays of five towns in Surigao del Sur and one in Agusan del Sur were forced to evacuate en masse toTandag City
The NDFP-Mindanao strongly condemns the brutal killing of ALCADEV Executive Director Emerito Samarca, MAPASU Chair Dionel Campos and Datu Juvello Sinzo committed by the combined elements of the 36th IB, 75th IB and the bandit group led by Calpet Igwa and Marcos Bocales. They also burned down the cooperative building of Sitio Han-ayan. As a result, over 3,000 residents from the hinterland barangays of five towns in Surigao del Sur and one in Agusan del Sur were forced to evacuate en masse to
Lianga, Surigao del Sur.
Before the Han-ayan massacre, AFP elements and their bandit murdered two Tabugol brothers in Brgy. Siagao, San Miguel, Surigao Sur, last August 28, 2015. In Brgy. Mendez, Pangantucan, Bukidnon, the 1st Special Forces Battallion also massacred five members of the Samia family last August 28, 2015. The number of Lumads inMindanao
who fell victim to summary killings by the Aquino Regime have reached almost 70.
The Han-ayan massacre happened on Sept. 1, six days after Sec. Teresita Deles, of the OPAPP (Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process) together with Maj. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, C.O. Eastmincom AFP, and General Oscar Lactao, C.O. 4th ID P.A., and other high ranking officials presented 42 mostly fake surrenderees in a “Peace” Caravan held in Lianga, Surigao del Sur last August 25. Also, on Aug. 22 AFP Chief of Staff Hernando Iribiri, who was born in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, visited during his hometown fiesta, and in less than a week after he left, he deployed additional troops to Surigao del Sur.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 9, Sec. Mar Roxas visited the 3,000 evacuees in Tandag. Instead of showing sincere sympathy, he rubbed salt to the injury of the evacuees by absolving the military and the bandits, saying that the police is investigating into the alleged NPA shooting in the area that may have caused the displacement and misery of residents from 27 communities. He deliberately and shamelessly brushed off the fact that it is already public knowledge and the evacuees themselves have testified that it was the military and their armed bandits who killed their school executive director and leaders and sowed other forms of terror in the hinterlands of 5 municipalities of Surigao del Sur and one adjoining municipality, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. It turned out that his 10-minute visit was to cover-up for the AFP and its bandit group and a photo-op session to boost his sagging survey results.
Malacañang cabinet members and the AFP national leadership have shown such special interest in Caraga to ensure the unhampered plunder of multinational foreign and local mining and plantation firms in the area, and to finally defeat the resilient and advancing revolutionary movement in the region. But such a special interest is not only focused on Caraga, in fact it is beefing up its forces from just about 50% to more than 60% of the total nationwide AFP forces, air and land assets to Mindanao, giving particular focus to three NPA regions ofEastern Mindanao , namely Southern, North Central and Northeastern regions.
Maj. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, C.O. Eastern Mindanao Command, says that “they key to defeating the revolutionary movement in thePhilippines
is to defeat it here in Eastern Mindanao .”
But, with barely eight months left to Aquino III’s term, he is now
ever more desperate to turn his regime’s dream of defeating the revolutionary movement into reality
by unleashing the most brazen fascism against the people through the escalation of AFP combat and
terror operations in Mindanao .
In its terror campaigns, AFP forces are secretly recruiting, training and arming Lumad bandits, calling them by many names such as “Task Force Gantangan” and “Alamara” in Southern Mindanao, “Wild Dog”, “BULIF” and “NIPAR” in NorthCentral Mindanao , “Magahat” and “Bagani” in Northeastern Mindanao
and many other groups. These groups are trained to kill even their own kin and terrorize communities whom they suspect to
be NPA sympathizers, and they engage in banditry, extortion, illegal drugs and illegal
logging to support their vices.
The AFP is trying desperately to project that these bandits are Lumads rising up in arms against the revolutionary movement and that it’s a case of Lumad versus Lumad, when in fact what they are recruiting are mostly the dregs of Lumad communities who, due to their self-interest and vices, are prone to violence and banditry. By employing these cost-effective counter-revolutionary bandits, the AFP can get away from any responsibility of the crimes committed by these groups and can also easily disclaim and dispense them off once there is public uproar.
Benigno Aquino III is currently touring the country to help boost the chances of his anointed successor Mar Roxas in next year’s elections. He is making sure that the country continues to go down the path of his “daang matuwid,” which, in truth, is his legacy of deception and blatant fascism. Roxas himself vowed to continue Aquino III’s legacy, which only means that once he wins in next year’s electoral race, he will continue and even intensify state terror that is detested by the people.
We call on the people ofMindanao
and the rest of the country to unite in protest with the countless victims of the US-Aquino III regime’s intensified terror
campaign in Surigao del Sur, Caraga and in other regions in Mindanao .
The people must further amplify its demands to give justice to all victims of state terrorism, to immediately disarm and
dismantle all bandit groups in Caraga and other parts of Mindanao ,
and to stop all forms of state terror perpetrated either by the military or the para-military.
We call on the New People’s Army to do everything within its capacity to defend the peasants and Lumads by launching tactical offensives against military operations of the AFP and their bandit groups.#
(sgd) Ka Oris
Before the Han-ayan massacre, AFP elements and their bandit murdered two Tabugol brothers in Brgy. Siagao, San Miguel, Surigao Sur, last August 28, 2015. In Brgy. Mendez, Pangantucan, Bukidnon, the 1st Special Forces Battallion also massacred five members of the Samia family last August 28, 2015. The number of Lumads in
The Han-ayan massacre happened on Sept. 1, six days after Sec. Teresita Deles, of the OPAPP (Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process) together with Maj. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, C.O. Eastmincom AFP, and General Oscar Lactao, C.O. 4th ID P.A., and other high ranking officials presented 42 mostly fake surrenderees in a “Peace” Caravan held in Lianga, Surigao del Sur last August 25. Also, on Aug. 22 AFP Chief of Staff Hernando Iribiri, who was born in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, visited during his hometown fiesta, and in less than a week after he left, he deployed additional troops to Surigao del Sur.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 9, Sec. Mar Roxas visited the 3,000 evacuees in Tandag. Instead of showing sincere sympathy, he rubbed salt to the injury of the evacuees by absolving the military and the bandits, saying that the police is investigating into the alleged NPA shooting in the area that may have caused the displacement and misery of residents from 27 communities. He deliberately and shamelessly brushed off the fact that it is already public knowledge and the evacuees themselves have testified that it was the military and their armed bandits who killed their school executive director and leaders and sowed other forms of terror in the hinterlands of 5 municipalities of Surigao del Sur and one adjoining municipality, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. It turned out that his 10-minute visit was to cover-up for the AFP and its bandit group and a photo-op session to boost his sagging survey results.
Malacañang cabinet members and the AFP national leadership have shown such special interest in Caraga to ensure the unhampered plunder of multinational foreign and local mining and plantation firms in the area, and to finally defeat the resilient and advancing revolutionary movement in the region. But such a special interest is not only focused on Caraga, in fact it is beefing up its forces from just about 50% to more than 60% of the total nationwide AFP forces, air and land assets to Mindanao, giving particular focus to three NPA regions of
Maj. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, C.O. Eastern Mindanao Command, says that “they key to defeating the revolutionary movement in the
In its terror campaigns, AFP forces are secretly recruiting, training and arming Lumad bandits, calling them by many names such as “Task Force Gantangan” and “Alamara” in Southern Mindanao, “Wild Dog”, “BULIF” and “NIPAR” in North
The AFP is trying desperately to project that these bandits are Lumads rising up in arms against the revolutionary movement and that it’s a case of Lumad versus Lumad, when in fact what they are recruiting are mostly the dregs of Lumad communities who, due to their self-interest and vices, are prone to violence and banditry. By employing these cost-effective counter-revolutionary bandits, the AFP can get away from any responsibility of the crimes committed by these groups and can also easily disclaim and dispense them off once there is public uproar.
Benigno Aquino III is currently touring the country to help boost the chances of his anointed successor Mar Roxas in next year’s elections. He is making sure that the country continues to go down the path of his “daang matuwid,” which, in truth, is his legacy of deception and blatant fascism. Roxas himself vowed to continue Aquino III’s legacy, which only means that once he wins in next year’s electoral race, he will continue and even intensify state terror that is detested by the people.
We call on the people of
We call on the New People’s Army to do everything within its capacity to defend the peasants and Lumads by launching tactical offensives against military operations of the AFP and their bandit groups.#
(sgd) Ka Oris
Spokesperson
NDFP-Mindanao
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