Lt. Col. Emelito Thaddeus Logan, 79IB commander, yesterday said that the two-day live-in seminar of 257 NPA supporters from the hinterland barangays of Quezon, Codcod, Bulwangan and Nataban, all in San Carlos City, culminated with an indignation rally on Sunday, denouncing continued rebel atrocities.
Carrying placards and streamers, the former rebel supporters went around the poblacion of San Carlos City to express their sentiments and dismay against the false promises to them by communist rebels, Logan said.
It was highlighted by the burning of a CPP-NPA flag as their way of showing their disgust to the group who they had supported before, he added.
Logan said that the surrender of NPA supporters was a result of the collaborative effort of the city government of San Carlos, 79IB, police and various agencies in the government.
In previous months, he reported that 229 former supporters of CPP-NPA from the insurgency-affected barangays of Sagay, Escalante, Cadiz, Victorias and San Carlos Cities and the municipalities of Manapla and E.B Magalona took their oath of allegiance to the government.
It was followed by the surrender of 25 members of the NPA in Salvador Benedicto, who endorsed 27 firearms, as well as the surrender of 27 more former Yunit Militias and mass supporters from Barangay Paitan in Escalante City who also yielded their firearms.
Within a period of three months since February, Logan said that the CPP-NPA lost 537 supporters and fighters, which he described as a setback to the rebel movement.*
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/April/09/topstory9.htm
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/April/09/topstory9.htm
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