From Malaya Business Insight (Jan 21, 2019): 4 NPAs surrender in ComVal, Davao Oriental
A MEMBER of the communist New People’s Army and her son surrendered Saturday to military officials in Mawab town, Compostela Valley, the military said yesterday.
The two were identified only as Bella, 56, and son, Rebo, 24.
The military said Bella served as a political officer of the “Weakened Guerilla Front 2, sub-regional committee 2” of the Southern Mindanao Regional Command while her son served as “propagandist.”
In Davao Oriental also on Saturday, two other NPA members surrendered to the Army’s 701st Brigade in Barangay Don Martin Marundan in Mati City. They were identified as alias Royroy, 24, and alias Jian, 22, both of the Guerilla Front 2 of the SMRC.
Capt. Jerry Lamosao, spokesman of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, said the two were students of the left-leaning Salugpungan school in Davao Oriental before they joined the NPA.
Lamosao said the two, who brought a cal. 45 pistol with them, surrendered through the assistance of town and barangay officials.
1Lt. Jhocell Asis, spokeswoman of the Army’s 71st Infantry Battalion, said the mother and son surrendered at around 11 a.m. at the 71st IB headquarters in Purok 8, Barangay Nueva Visayas in Mawab town.
The military said Bella joined the NPA in 1973 but went down from the mountain seven years later when she got married. She was recruited her back to the NPA in 2013 by an alias “Molong” who promised to send her child to school.
Rebo was later recruited by one “Tersollaya.” Asis said Rebo told the military he was also trained to detonate improvised explosive devices.
“The surrendered NPAs regret that they had joined and believed the nonsense ideologies taught to them. They were misled and got lost in time,” said Asis.
https://www.malaya.com.ph/business-news/news/4-npas-surrender-comval-davao-oriental
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