CAMP BANCASI, Butuan City – Maj. Gen. Ronald Villanueva, commanding general of the AFPs’ Northeastern and Northern Mindanao 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division (4th ID) on Saturday ordered field unit commanders in Surigao del Sur to widen their hot pursuit operations “without let up” against the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who attacked a military detachment on Thursday and killed a pregnant woman.
Butuan City Map (Credits: Google Map | Manila Bulletin)
The 4th ID chief ordered Col. Franco Nemesio Gacal, commanding officer of the Army’s 402nd Infantry (Stingers) Brigade to direct his battalion commanders to extend assistance to the family of the victim.
The 4th ID chief was saddened after learning that Jennyfer Maca, 25 years old 3-months pregnant was hit and killed when NPAs, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), staged the attack on the 16th Special Forces Company (16th SFC) detachment in Barangay Bitaugan, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Villanueva said the NPA fire that hit the pregnant woman was a proof of another violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect to Human Rights and Int’l Humanitarian Law which was the document duly signed by the GPH (Government of the Philippines) and NDF (National Democratic Front) at Hague, Netherlands.
“We will not allow this anymore,” the 4th ID chief added.
Maca was peppered with AK47 rifle causing her instant death. The AK 47 rifle is an assault weapon of the NPA, Capt. Francisco P. Garello, Civil Military Operations (CMO) officer of the 36th Infantry Battallion (36th IB) told the Manila Bulletin on Friday.
He said no one was reported hurt from the 16th SFC soldiers who defended their Bitaugan detachment for almost 30 minute firefight, until their attackers withdrew to Diwata range of that same municipality (San Miguel).
Only the pregnant woman (whose house was nearby the detachment) was killed when some 20 heavily armed suspected NPAs attacked the 16th SFC detachment at 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, claimed the 36th CMO officer.
Lt. Col. Randolph I Rojas, commanding officer of the 36th IB immediately deployed additional combat maneuvering troops to beef up the pursuing Bitaugan 16th SFC in San Miguel area.
The ground Army commander also condemned the fleeing NPAs for victimizing another innocent civilian during their Thursday attack on a detachment in Bitaugan.
He added that it is again “another clear violation of the signed Comprehensive Agreement on Respect to Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law between the government and the CPP-NPA-NDF.”
http://news.mb.com.ph/2017/09/09/hot-pursuit-ops-ordered-against-npas-who-killed-a-pregnant-woman/
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