NPA staged 19 attacks in Caraga region on EDSA People Power 30th year: CPP

From InterAksyon (Mar 9): NPA staged 19 attacks in Caraga region on EDSA People Power 30th year: CPP



Supporters of the Communist Party of the Philippines hold a lightning rally on the 46th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines, 19 December 2014. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY BOY BAGWIS

MANILA - New People’s Army (NPA) in the Northeast Mindanao Region (NEMR) attacked 19 detachments of soldiers and militiamen as well as an illegal sawmill in Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, and Surigao del Sur on February 25.

Two policemen were killed while two M-16 automatic rifles and a caliber 45 pistol was confiscated during an attack by the NPA Armando Sumayang Jr. Command (NPA-ASJC) on the police station of Candoni, Negros Occidental on February 18.

In a belated report carried by the March 7 issue of the Ang Bayan, the official organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the NPA leadership said these attacks belie the claim by the military that the armed struggle in the Caraga Region is “manageable.”

NPA-ASJC spokesperson Andrea Guerrero said the fatalities were Police Officer 3 (PO3) Joeharry Peralta and PO1 Henry Pacheco while three others were injured.

Sgt. Lorenzo Hernan of the 22nd Infantry Battalion (IB) was seriously hurt when a team of the NPA in Albay harassed his detachment in Barangay San Ramon, Daraga, Albay at 6 a.m. on February 26.

The NPA said the detachment was established only on February 12.

Maria Malaya, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front-NEMR (NDF-NEMR), said “the 19 attacks within a period of 24 hours sought to emphasize the importance of armed struggle in commemorating EDSA 1. Even as the US-Aquino regime brags about the ‘peaceful revolution’ of EDSA 1, it nevertheless launched violent operations against the people in the countryside.”

Malaya said the tactical offensives launched by the NPA were the following:

1. attack on the detachment of the Philippine Army (PA) and the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) in San Pedro, Lianga, Surigao del Sur, at 1:19 a.m.
2. harassment of a Cafgu detachment in Panaytay, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur
3. assault on a detachment in Ugoban, Tagbina, Surigao del Sur, at 6:19 a.m.
4. Sityo Kusip, Bayugan 3, Rosario, Agusan del Sur, at 6:44 a.m.
5. Barangay Tagasaka, Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur
6. Villa Undayon, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur
7. Mt. Carmel, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur
8. Bunyasan, Malimono, Surigao del Norte, at 12 a.m.
9. Tagbayani, Sison, Surigao del Norte, at 12:05 a.m.
10. Cabongbongan, Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, at 12:06 a.m.
11. Mayag, Mainit, Surigao del Norte, at 12:10 a.m.
12. Bunyasan, Malimono,Surigao del Norte, at 10 a.m.
13. Tagbayani, Sison, Surigao del Norte, at 5 a.m.

Four detachments of the military and the Special Civilian Armed Auxiliaries (SCAA) were also fired at by the NPA along with an illegal sawmill. These are the following:

1. PA-SCAA detachment at JCA compound, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, at 5:30 a.m.
2. another PA-SCAA detatchment at the JCA Compound, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, at 6 a.m.
3. headquarters of the Alpha Company of the 29th IB in Jabonga, Agusan del Norte at 4:07 a.m.
4. Alpha Company 29th IB outpost in Bangonay, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte
5. attack on troops of the 26th IB that launched combat operations and activities for the Community Organizing for Peace and Development (COPD) in Imelda, Bunawan, Agusan del Sur at 5 a.m.
6. illegal sawmill in Bangonay, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte owned by a policeman.

Malaya said these “tactical offensives confirm the need for armed revolution since the purported peaceful ‘People Power Revolution' did not solve the basic problems of the Filipino people.”

“Thirty years after EDSA, the big bourgeois compradors, landlords, political dynasties and their boss, US imperialism, are still in power and control the economy. Thus, the only solution to the problem is the national democratic revolution,” Malaya said.

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