TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Aug. 4 -- Army troopers in the province of Surigao del Sur have reported recovering several high-powered rifles, ammunition and some documents after its 10-minute clash with the weakened Guerilla Front 19 (GF19) of the New People's Army (NPA) recently.
Pursuit operations by the 3rd Special Forces “Arrowhead” Battalion (3SFBn), Philippine Army yielded one AK47 rifle; one M16 rifle; one AK magazine; one M16 magazine; one homemade shotgun; one cal. 22 rifle, seven shotgun ammunition; one smartphone; five keypad phones; one tablet; one power bank; bulk of medical supplies; assorted documents; and personal belongings on July 20 in Sitio Panukmuan, Diatagon, Lianga town.
“There was a 10-minute encounter but the NPA terrorists immediately fled and mixed with the IP community to evade government forces that caused alarm and chaos on civilians,“ said 3SFBn Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Joey Baybayan.
“We call on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC) and other rights groups to condemn in the highest terms and take action against Communist NPA terrorists who use the IP community as human shields,“ Hawudon Jumar Bucales, Lianga Indigenous People's Mandatory Representative (IPMR) said.
“Unknown to the international arena and self-proclaimed rights advocates, Communist NPA terrorists infiltrates the IP communities to force the tribe to become members of their underground mass organizations, politico-military structure and eventually, party members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and National Democratic Front (NDF) to sustain the NPA terrorists in the far-flung sitios,” Bucales added.
“The passage of the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 is a big boost to secure the IP communities from these terroristic conspiracies and shaping of the CPP, NDF and the NPA terrorists,” said Datu Constancio Duhac, Lianga tribal chieftain.
Penalties, if proven, included the imposable penalty is imprisonment of 12 years and life imprisonment without the benefit of parole.
The NPA, the armed wing of CPP, and NDF, was listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
The CPP-NPA was declared as a designated/identified terrorist organization under the Philippines’ Republic Act No. 1016. (Lt. Krisjuper Andreo Punsalan, 3SFBn CMO/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
Pursuit operations by the 3rd Special Forces “Arrowhead” Battalion (3SFBn), Philippine Army yielded one AK47 rifle; one M16 rifle; one AK magazine; one M16 magazine; one homemade shotgun; one cal. 22 rifle, seven shotgun ammunition; one smartphone; five keypad phones; one tablet; one power bank; bulk of medical supplies; assorted documents; and personal belongings on July 20 in Sitio Panukmuan, Diatagon, Lianga town.
“There was a 10-minute encounter but the NPA terrorists immediately fled and mixed with the IP community to evade government forces that caused alarm and chaos on civilians,“ said 3SFBn Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Joey Baybayan.
“We call on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC) and other rights groups to condemn in the highest terms and take action against Communist NPA terrorists who use the IP community as human shields,“ Hawudon Jumar Bucales, Lianga Indigenous People's Mandatory Representative (IPMR) said.
“Unknown to the international arena and self-proclaimed rights advocates, Communist NPA terrorists infiltrates the IP communities to force the tribe to become members of their underground mass organizations, politico-military structure and eventually, party members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and National Democratic Front (NDF) to sustain the NPA terrorists in the far-flung sitios,” Bucales added.
“The passage of the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 is a big boost to secure the IP communities from these terroristic conspiracies and shaping of the CPP, NDF and the NPA terrorists,” said Datu Constancio Duhac, Lianga tribal chieftain.
Penalties, if proven, included the imposable penalty is imprisonment of 12 years and life imprisonment without the benefit of parole.
The NPA, the armed wing of CPP, and NDF, was listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
The CPP-NPA was declared as a designated/identified terrorist organization under the Philippines’ Republic Act No. 1016. (Lt. Krisjuper Andreo Punsalan, 3SFBn CMO/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
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