PNP chief Police Gen. Oscar Albayalde said the initial arrangement is for close coordination with local military and police units in providing security for the former communist rebels and their families.
“It depends on the threat level. There are some cases wherein those who surrendered are being allowed to stay in military camps because of the threats,” said Albayalde.
In October last year, former communist rebel Raymart Dagohoy was peppered with bullets by a group of communist rebels in the sugarcane plantation in Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental where he started working after his surrender.
Last April 12, Mangyan tribal leader Jose Barrera was abducted and then executed allegedly by his former comrades in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro.
Barrera used to be a team leader of the communist rebels operating in Mindoro provinces. He surrendered to the military in August last year under the government’s E-CLIP (Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program).
Albayalde admitted that running after their former comrades who surrendered to the government is part of the New People’s Army’s way of threatening their companions who want to surrender.
“It’s a way of sending a message to their comrades who want to surrender. It’s a way of threatening those who want to surrender,” said Albayalde.
Albayalde said that the government is now doing everything to ensure not only the safety of those who surrender but also their livelihood programs.
The Duterte administration has shifted to localized peace talks after the negotiations with the communist rebels via the National Democratic Front had bogged down anew.
The NPA has been waging five decades of armed struggle against the government.
http://tempo.com.ph/2019/04/21/pnp-offers-security-for-former-reds/
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