Bacolod City, Negros Occ. – Aside from condemning the murder of Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) members Romualdo Dollente and Rene Villar, of Cauayan town, Negros Occidental, the Philippine Army (PA) will file criminal charges against the perpetrators who have been identified as cadres belonging to the New Peoples Army (NPA).
The CAFGU is an auxiliary force under the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
The Army will file charges against the perpetrators and urge the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and other human rights advocate groups such as Karapatan to investigate the murder of Dollente and Villar and other victims of the NPA.
According to Maj. Ray Tiongson, head, Dvision Public Affairs Office (DPAO), CAFGU member Dollente, 44, a resident of Brgy. Poblacion, Cauayan who was assigned at the Nara Patrol Base in Cauayan, was shot dead last November 30, 2015 by four armed men using .45 caliber pistols at the opublic market in the barangay.
The other murdered CAFGU member meanwhile, Villar, 47, a resident of Sition Pinamay-an, in Cauayan’s Camalandaan Village, was killed at around 5 a.m., Dec. 1, 2015 at Sitio Lucsohan, the same town, by several men also believed to be members of the NPA.
The PA’s 303rd Infantry Brigade Commander, Col. Francisco Delfin said, “These inhumane acts of the NPA must be condemned to the fullest extent. The NPA’s attack on non-combatants is clearly a violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) which the Communist Party of the Philippines New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) and National Democratic Front (NDF) are signatories of. “Any issue against their victims should be brought to the proper court and let them answer to our proper judicial system,” he stressed.
Delfin also said that the NPAs are resorting to this kind of violence such as killing of innocent civilians just to preserve their unit “because of their continuing defeat in the hands of government forces in the Negros Island Region (NIR).”
The 303rd Brigade, meanwhile, has intensified its security operations in the area, even as it continues to track down the NPA members and has provided support for the family of
The 3rd Infantry Division (ID) has provided the necessary support to the family of Dollente.
Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Mutiangpili, Acting Commander of the PA’s 3rd Infantry Division, said “These unlawful killings and blatant violation by the NPA of human rights and the International Humanitarian Law must be stopped. The democratic government and the Filipino people want a justice system that is not served through killings.”
He said the Army in Western and Central Visayas will continue to collaborate with all stakeholders to bring peace and development to the people through “Bayanihan” especially in the countryside.
Mutiangpili also called on “all stakeholders of peace to convince those deceived by the CPP-NPA to follow the path of peace and condemn those who advocate violence and the use of arms against civilians.”
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