Members of the Philippine Army’s 301st Infantry Brigade (IB) based in Dingle, Iloilo is still conducting search operations to arrest Maria Concepcion “Concha” Araneta-Bocala, peace consultant for Visayas of the National Democratic Front (NDF), who is currently out on bail.
In an interview Sunday afternoon, 301st IB commanding officer Brig. Gen. Pio Diñoso said Bocala is still hiding in Panay Island.
“Kasi dito yung kanyang comfort zone. Dito yung maraming tumulong sa kanya kung saan man siya gusto magtago (Because this is where her comfort zone is. It is here where she got help wherever she wanted to hide,” he said.
Diñoso said that each and every soldier of the 301st IB and other army units based here are searching for Bocala.
He said that some 8,000 policemen and 2,000 soldiers are looking for the NDF consultant thus he is confident of her arrest anytime soon.
Diñoso appealed for the cooperation of the public to help in providing information to Bocala’s whereabouts.
After terminating the peace talks with the communists last year, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ordered for the arrest of NDF consultants.
Bocala was temporarily released from prison August last year to join the resumption of talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Communist Party of the Philippines in Oslo, Norway.
Bocala is also the spokesperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) regional committee in Panay Island.
She was temporarily released from prison after she posted PHP400,000-bail for her four criminal charges -- illegal possession of explosives and ammunition, murder and two rebellion charges.
Bocala was arrested in August 2015 in Molo, Iloilo City by joint forces of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group 6.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1024126
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