Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Capiz top cop renews call for rebels to surrender

From the Panay News (Mar 12, 2020): Capiz top cop renews call for rebels to surrender


Capiz Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Colonel Julio Gustilo (2nd from the left) presents before the media alias “Art” (center), a former rebel who returned to the folds of the law on March 6. CPPO will facilitate Art’s enrolment in the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program so that he can start a new and better life. PIA
ROXAS City – Capiz Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Colonel Julio Gustilo Jr. renewed his call to the members of the New People’s Army (NPA) to surrender, citing the government assistance is waiting for them to start a new and peaceful life.

The province’s top cop stressed this last week as he presented before the media alias “Art”, who was then a rebel Red fighter but surrendered and returned to the folds of the law, at the CPPO in Camp Teodorico Apil here.

“CPPO will facilitate alias Art’s enrolment to the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program, so he can start the soonest possible time a new and better life,” Gustilo said.

During the event, Alias Art said that he surrendered because he could no longer bear the hardships, starvation, lack of security and hopelessness in living in the mountains.

The former rebel surrendered to CPPO’s Provincial Intelligence Unit officer Major Rowell Buccat as a result of the intensified and comprehensive conduct of intelligence and information operation by the police operatives in coordination with the 61st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the Barangay Intelligence Networks.

According to Buccat, Art became a Red fighter after he was recruited in 1992. He was a member of an NPA unit that operates in several upland barangays of Mambusao, Jamindan, Sigma, Dumalag, and Tapaz towns in this province.

Alias Art’s surrender took place while the government is implementing the whole-of-nation approach, which aims to end local communist armed conflict in order to attain inclusive and sustainable peace and development.(With a report from PIA/PN)

https://www.panaynews.net/capiz-top-cop-renews-call-for-rebels-to-surrender/

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