NPA amazon molested: Army

From the Visayan Daily Star (Apr 21): NPA amazon molested: Army

A female recruit of the New People’s Army, who is an undergraduate of the University of the Philippines-Cebu, had been a victim of sexual abuse by her comrades, Brig. Gen. Eliezer Losañes, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, revealed yesterday.

Losañes said the harrowing experience of the NPA woman recruit, whose identity has been withheld, was handwritten in her diary, that was among the items recovered at the rebel training camp, overran by the 79th Infantry Battalion early this week in Brgy. Guadalope, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.

The 26-year-old NPA recruit, a resident of Minglanilla, Cebu, underwent training in the hinterlands of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental in November 2011.

She became a full-time member the next year, and was deployed in the hinterlands of San Carlos City in Negros Occidental, as well as Canlaon City and Vallehermoso in Negros Oriental.

It was in the same year that the UP graduate claimed in her diary that she was sexually assaulted by her two male comrades, identified only through their aliases as Lindo and Mori, Losañes said in a statement issued by the 303rd Infantry Brigade.

The victim, according to the military, was a consistent honor student and an academic achiever. A resident of Minglanilla, Cebu, Losañes said she studied and took up studies for a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree at UP Cebu, before she joined the CPP-NPA.

It is a clear evidence that the CPP-NPA sexually abused their female recruits, he added.

“She is one of the many victims of harassment and deceitful recruitment and unending lies,” Losañes also said, stressing that the victim had kept the record of her harrowing experiences in a diary, where she freely expressed herself during those times.

Last month, a graduate of UP-Cebu identified as Myles Albasin tagged by the Philippine Army as a member of the NPA, was among the six rebels captured in an encounter in Mabinay, Negros Oriental, that also yielded several high-powered firearms and explosives.

Losañes called on parents to closely monitor the activities of their children, and also urged NPA recruits, who are students and minors, to leave the rebel movement and finish their studies.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2018/April/21/topstory11.htm