Three people, including a police officer, were killed when an improvised explosive device went off in Barangay Libuton. The incident also left 24 others injured, including a one-year old baby.
DILG Secretary Eduardo Año believes the incident was perpetrated by the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the CPP, after Sison praised the carnage which supposedly proved the strength of the communist movement in the country.
Año added Sison should be held directly responsible for the incident as he exercises direct and absolute leadership over the NPA through the party branch inside every platoon.
The DILG chief cited the CPP founder’s statement from his base in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where he said that the Samar attack on civilians was their answer to the repeated claim of the Army and the police that they have finished off the NPA.
“The praise coming from the Netherlands simply shows that this was a premeditated attack on both the PNP and the civilians of Samar meant to deliver a message that the NPA is willing and able to terrorize the people no matter the cost,” Año said.
“This is another brazen act of terror against the people. Unfortunately for Joma, the death and wounding of so many civilians only proves to the people what they really are – a ragtag band of terrorist whose thirst for blood knows no equal,” he added.
The DILG chief also noted that Joma even predicted that with the attack in Borongan, the membership of the NPA in the country would continue to rise with the alleged oppression, violence, and corruption of the Duterte administration.
He also claimed that Sison said that the “successful offensive in Eastern Samar would inspire the NPA to stage more bloody offensives against state security forces.”
“We hold all of them responsible for this treachery against the people – Joma and his CPP for ordering this attack, its armed wing the NPA for carrying out this attack, and its political arm, the National Democratic Front for the intelligence, political, and logistical support that enabled the NPA to carry out this treacherous attack against the very people that they said they are fighting for,” Año said.
He called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) “to be true to its word” and conduct a fair, thorough and independent investigation on the incident as previously promised by its spokesperson.
The CHR earlier condemned the attack as a direct violation of humanitarian law, and said it would probe the incident.
“We are hopeful that they will be true to their word and find the Communist Terrorists guilty of crimes against humanity,” Año said.
The DILG chief, meanwhile, hailed the police officer killed in the explosion, Patrolman Mark Jerome Rama.
“The DILG honors Patrolman Rama as a hero and will render full honors to him. We also promise immediate assistance to his bereaved family as befitting his act of ultimate sacrifice in the service of the people,” he said.
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