The military said it has recovered laptop computers and other documents from 13 alleged members of Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) in connection with the Red October plot that supposedly seeks to unseat President Rodrigo Duterte.
According to a report by Chino Gaston on “24 Oras”, Brig.Gen. Antonio Parlade,Jr., Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, claimed that these pieces of evidence were nabbed in a counter-insurgency operation in Northern Mindanao last July.
Other items confiscated were bank passbook, telephone and identification cards.
“From there, doon na namin nabuo na hindi lang pala dito sa Manila ang kanilang plano. Buong Pilipinas ang kanilang plano,” Parlade said.
The CPP had earlier denounced the AFP's claims as lies.
"This so-called Red October plot is nothing but an AFP invention. Like the rest of the AFP’s fakery, it is a poorly concocted story," the CPP said, adding that the military came up with the story as early as July.
The communist group said that the real aim of the government forces is "to justify the implementation of increasingly severe measures in the name of defeating the plot to target legitimate protest actions which express the sentiments of a disgruntled people."
Housing occupation
Parlade also accused communists of seeking to close down big companies by staging picket and rallies to sabotage the President, as well as occupying government housing projects just like what urban poor group Kadamay did in Pandi, Bulacan.
He was referring to the 5,000 Kadamay members who occupied the erstwhile unoccupied government housing in Pandi, Bulacan which were allotted for policemen, soldiers and firemen way back March 2017.
President Duterte eventually awarded the housing project to Kadamay occupants last May.
Parlade, however, could not say if National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raid in Teresa Rizal which yielded unlicensed assault rifles and pistols is in connection with the Red October plot. This is despite of the statement of Brigadier Gen. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr., commander of the 202nd Infantry Brigade, that the raid in Rizal was a result of “months of intelligence operations” against communist rebels and that the results of the raid prove that the Red October plot “cannot be downplayed.”
NBI spokesperson Ferdinand Lavin said that they are yet to find evidence linking the raid to Red October plot.
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