CAMP CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal – Combined elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) served a warrant of arrest for a top NPA leader during a joint law enforcement operation in San Pedro, Laguna at around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Per the military’s record, Antonia Tonog Setias-Dizon alias Tonet was designated as Head of the Communist Party of the Philippine’s National Organizing Department (NOD) after Adelberto Silva was arrested last year in Sta Cruz, Laguna.
According to Col Alex Rillera, Commander of the 202nd Brigade which has operational jurisdiction in the area, the arrest of alias Tonet was “by virtue of a warrant for the crime of Murder with Criminal Case # 5965 issued by Acting Executive Judge Lou A Nueva of RTC Branch 7, Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur.”
He added that the government’s security forces “recovered a Cal .380 pistol, 48 pieces of live ammunition, 12 blasting caps and wires, mobile phones, hard disk drives, USB flash drive, other war materiel and enemy documents with high intelligence value” from alias Tonet’s safe house at B2, L12, Artemis Street, Villa Olympia Subdivision, San Pedro through a warrant issued by Santa Cruz, Laguna RTC Executive Judge Cynthia Mariño-Ricablanca.
Brigadier General Arnulfo Marcelo B Burgos Jr, Commander of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division which covers Southern Tagalog, said that “the arrest of alias Tonet is another major blow to the NPA terrorists’ movement for it will create leadership vacuum that will further speed up their imminent defeat.”
General Burgos attributed the series of NPA leaders’ apprehension to the “whole of nation approach which PRRD is advocating through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict” which eroded “the mass base support that the terrorists used to enjoy in the past.”
He ended his statement by congratulating the combined operating troops for their “collaboration and synergy in attaining our common aspirations of prosperity and development in this part of the country” as he vowed the military’s commitment to be relentless in finally ending NPA insurgency “so that we may finally achieve peace which our people truly deserve.”
Division Public Affairs Office 2nd Infantry Division Philippine Army
CPT JAYROLD TERNIO
Chief, DPAO, 2ID, PA
Camp General Mateo Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal
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