FORMER NPA SUPPORTERS. Residents of Barangay Antipolo, Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija renounce their support to the New People's Army and take their oath of allegiance to the government at the Antipolo Elementary School on Aug. 6, 2019. Maj. Gen. Lenard T. Agustin, commander of the Philippine Army’s 7th Infantry Division, lauded their decision. (File photo courtesy of 91IB)
BALER, Aurora -- Nineteen residents of Barangay Antipolo and its adjacent villages in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija have renounced their support to the New People’s Army (NPA).
Lt. Col. Jose Mari F. Torrenueva II, commander of the Philippine Army’s 91st (Sinagtala) Infantry Battalion, said Tuesday the 19 villagers who admitted to have supported the communist rebels in the past, took their oath of allegiance before the government in the covered court of Antipolo Elementary School last August 6.
Torrenueva disclosed that the former NPA supporters said they were deceived by the rebels.
He expressed his gratitude to the barangay officials of Antipolo for helping them in convincing the former NPA sympathizers to renounce their support for the communist rebels.
“With their surrender, the NPA terrorist members cannot thrive anymore in their barangay, and the people will live in peace as before, when no NPA exists in their community,” Torrenueva said.
Maj. Gen. Lenard T. Agustin, commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry (Kaugnay) Division, lauded the decision of the former NPA supporters to withdraw their allegiance to the rebel group.
Agustin said that the 50 years armed struggle of the NPA terrorists brought so many problems and miseries among thousands of Filipino families.
“We are all Filipinos and fighting each other will not bring us anywhere, it will only bring senseless deaths and sufferings,” he added.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1077648
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