From the Mindanao Times (Feb 11, 2020): 7 IP members of the NPA surrender (BY RHODA GRACE SARON)
Seven members of the Banwaon tribe from Agusan del Sur who were alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the authorities in Nueva Ecija.
In a press briefing yesterday held at the Sandiwa hall in Camp Quintin Merecido, Brig. Gen. Filmore Escobal, the PRO XI director identified the three as alias Alan, Paopao, and Princess.
“The surrender of these NPAs is consistent with our intention to rescue all IPs who are easy victims of the deception of Joma Sison’s coalition of criminal groups,” he said.
Alan was arrested at the checkpoint in Nueva Ejica. When questioned, he admitted to be part of the NPA. Authorities also learned from Alan that he has companions coming from Agusan del Sur who also want to surrender.
The Police Regional Office III conducted an operation to rescue the other members of the Banwaon tribe.
“They were now returning to the folds of the law and the government will be helping them,” he added.
When asked during the press conference, Paopao claimed that they were part of the Manilakbayan in 2015, the main reason why they were in Luzon.
He revealed that his role in the organization is to organize communities to join the NPA.“I was recruited to be part of (Guerrilla) Front 88, then was transferred after two months,” he said.
According to the report, Jan. 29, a composite team from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion,Davao del Norte Police Provincial Office and Davao del Sur PPO conducted a joint operation with the 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company, Nueva Ecija PPO, Police Regional Office 3 with operatives from 26th Infantry Battalion and 401st Infantry Brigade under 4th Infantry Division of Eastern Mindanao Command in facilitating the surrender of three active NPA members of the Front Committee 88 in Agusan del Sur.
As a follow-up, last Feb. 6, Col. Edgar Alan Okubo, the deputy regional director for operations, spearheaded the composite team to facilitate the surrender of four NPAs from Front Committee 88 based in Agusan del Sur. They were identified as alias CJ, Tiger, Fine, and Claire.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
AFP-CRS: Fed up NPA contact reveals arms cache
Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Feb 11, 2020): Fed up NPA contact reveals arms cache
EXPLOSIVES CACHE REVEALED. A New People’s Army (NPA) contact/supporter surrendered to the joint elements of the 84th Infantry (Victorious) Battalion and PNP Aliaga and revealed about the explosives buried at Barangay Eustaquio, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
EXPLOSIVES CACHE REVEALED. A New People’s Army (NPA) contact/supporter surrendered to the joint elements of the 84th Infantry (Victorious) Battalion and PNP Aliaga and revealed about the explosives buried at Barangay Eustaquio, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
[The Civil Relations Service (CRS) is the unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that engages the public through its public information and community relations programs “to create a favorable atmosphere between the community and the AFP. The CRS is the equivalent of the Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs units of the US Army.]
AFP-CRS: Firearms recovered in Sarangani
Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Feb 11, 2020): Firearms recovered in Sarangani
FIREARMS RECOVERED. In the mountainous area of Alabel, particularly at Sitio Talifara, Brgy Alegria, Alabel, Sarangani Province, an armed encounter occurred. After the encounter, the troops recovered one M16, one M653 rifles, four magazines , one bandoleer, four cellular phones, four flash drives, four memory cards, 23 simcards, and one LBP ATM card.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
FIREARMS RECOVERED. In the mountainous area of Alabel, particularly at Sitio Talifara, Brgy Alegria, Alabel, Sarangani Province, an armed encounter occurred. After the encounter, the troops recovered one M16, one M653 rifles, four magazines , one bandoleer, four cellular phones, four flash drives, four memory cards, 23 simcards, and one LBP ATM card.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
[The Civil Relations Service (CRS) is the unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that engages the public through its public information and community relations programs “to create a favorable atmosphere between the community and the AFP. The CRS is the equivalent of the Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs units of the US Army.]
AFP-CRS: Rebel couple nabbed in Negros Oriental
Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Feb 11, 2020): Rebel couple nabbed in Negros Oriental
COUPLE NABBED. A couple was arrested in Barangay Talalak, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental on Friday by a team of police personnel and Army troopers for the crime of rebellion.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
COUPLE NABBED. A couple was arrested in Barangay Talalak, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental on Friday by a team of police personnel and Army troopers for the crime of rebellion.
#AFPyoucanTRUST | www.afpcrs.com
[The Civil Relations Service (CRS) is the unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that engages the public through its public information and community relations programs “to create a favorable atmosphere between the community and the AFP. The CRS is the equivalent of the Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs units of the US Army.]
NDF/Sison: Duterte continues US military control of the Philippines despite VFA termination notice
Jose Maria Sison propaganda statement posted to the National Democratic Front Philippines (NDFP or NDF) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Duterte continues US military control of the Philippines despite VFA termination notice
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
The VFA notice of termination takes effect after 180 days. The people cannot be sure that Duterte will not change his mind within that lengthy period. Previously, Duterte postured about terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement but after a few months allowed Balikatan exercises under VFA.
In the meantime, there are other military treaties with the US: Mutual Defense Treaty, Mutual Logistics Support Agreement and Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. The EDCA allows the US military to rotate more of its troops in the Philippines and build facilities in Philippine military camps, using the Filipino puppet troops as security guards.
Duterte is beggarly dependent on US military supplies and advice. One telephone call from Trump can fix Duterte. His own pro-US military officers trained in US military forts and organized as assets of the US DIA and CIA will tell him to comply with US orders or else.
https://ndfp.org/duterte-continues-us-military-control-despite-vfa-termination-notice/
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
The VFA notice of termination takes effect after 180 days. The people cannot be sure that Duterte will not change his mind within that lengthy period. Previously, Duterte postured about terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement but after a few months allowed Balikatan exercises under VFA.
In the meantime, there are other military treaties with the US: Mutual Defense Treaty, Mutual Logistics Support Agreement and Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. The EDCA allows the US military to rotate more of its troops in the Philippines and build facilities in Philippine military camps, using the Filipino puppet troops as security guards.
Duterte is beggarly dependent on US military supplies and advice. One telephone call from Trump can fix Duterte. His own pro-US military officers trained in US military forts and organized as assets of the US DIA and CIA will tell him to comply with US orders or else.
https://ndfp.org/duterte-continues-us-military-control-despite-vfa-termination-notice/
CPP/NDF-Bicol: Tumitinding Panunupil sa mga mamamahayag, nagpapatuloy sa kamay na bakal ng rehimeng US-Duterte!
NDF-Bicol propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Tumitinding Panunupil sa mga mamamahayag, nagpapatuloy sa kamay na bakal ng rehimeng US-Duterte!
ARMAS-BIKOL
ARTISTA AT MANUNULAT NG SAMBAYANAN
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Mariing kinukundena ng ARMAS-Bikol ang rehimeng US-Duterte sa lumalalang pang-aatake sa hanay ng mga mamamahayag. Pilit na sinasagkaan ni Duterte ang malayang pamamahayag ng mga kagawad ng midyang nagsisiwalat ng kabulukan ng kanyang rehimen. Binubusalan niya ng kamay na bakal ang progresibo at makabayang hanay sa pagsisikap na pigilan ang pagbulwak ng kilusang-talsik laban sa kanya.
Nitong nakaraang linggo, iligal na inaresto ang Altermidya Network correspondent at Executive Director ng Eastern Vista, isang progresibong media outfit sa Eastern Visayas, na si Frenchiemae Cumpio, kasama ang apat na progresibong lider ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng Philippine Army at PNP. Nangangati ang kamay ng mga berdugong huliin ang lima kapalit ng duguang pabuyang iniaalok ni Duterte sa bawat masasakoteng kritiko ng kanyang gubyerno. Ang masahol pa, isinabay sa kulungan kahit ang isang taong gulang na anak ng isa sa mga hinuli.
Tumitindi rin ang panggigipit at censorship sa sektor ng midya. Pinagbabantaan ni Duterte na hindi bibigyan ng prangkisa ang ABS-CBN, isa sa pinakamalalaking kumpanya sa brodkas sa bansa matapos niyang mapikon sa ilang mga palabas ng naturang istasyon. Kahapon lamang ay hinain ni Solicitor General Jose Calida ang petisyon ng quo warranto upang hamunin ang ABS-CBN na patunayan ang karapatan nitong magkaroon ng prangkisa. Nakaamba ang pagkapaso ng prangkisa nito ngayong Marso 30. Bago pa ito, pinanghimasukan na ng PNP noong nakaraang taon ang paggawa sa palabas na Ang Probinsyano dahil umano sa pagpapakita nito ng kabulukan ng mga pulis.
Hindi nakapagtatakang ang pananakot na ito sa ABS-CBN ay kasabay naman ng pagbubuo ng bagong media group na Udenna Communications Media and Entertainment Holdings Corp. ni Dennis Uy, isang malapit na kaibigan ni Duterte.
Malinaw na nais kontrolin ni Duterte ang lahat ng tipo ng midya – mula sa mainstream hanggang sa midyang bayan bilang bahagi ng kanyang paghahabol na mahawakan nang buung-buo ang pampulitikang kapangyarihan sa bansa. Kasabay nito, tinitiyak niyang mapagbibigyan ang interes ng malalaking burgesya kumprador at negosyanteng kadikit ng kanyang rehimen. Sa gayon, natitiyak niya ang suporta ng mga ito para sa kanyang pangkatin sa panahon ng nalalapit na eleksyon.
Sa lumalalang atake sa midya at malawak na hanay ng masang lumalaban, dapat lamang magkaisa ang lahat ng mamamahayag na nagtataguyod ng makabayan at patriyotikong paninindigan. Nananawagan ang ARMAS-BIKOL sa lahat ng artista at manunulat na lumaban para sa pagpapalaya ng lahat ng bilanggong pulitikal, pag-atake sa sektor ng midya at pagtatakwil sa kontramamamayang gera ng rehimeng US-Duterte.
https://cpp.ph/statement/tumitinding-panunupil-sa-mga-mamamahayag-nagpapatuloy-sa-kamay-na-bakal-ng-rehimeng-us-duterte/
Mariing kinukundena ng ARMAS-Bikol ang rehimeng US-Duterte sa lumalalang pang-aatake sa hanay ng mga mamamahayag. Pilit na sinasagkaan ni Duterte ang malayang pamamahayag ng mga kagawad ng midyang nagsisiwalat ng kabulukan ng kanyang rehimen. Binubusalan niya ng kamay na bakal ang progresibo at makabayang hanay sa pagsisikap na pigilan ang pagbulwak ng kilusang-talsik laban sa kanya.
Nitong nakaraang linggo, iligal na inaresto ang Altermidya Network correspondent at Executive Director ng Eastern Vista, isang progresibong media outfit sa Eastern Visayas, na si Frenchiemae Cumpio, kasama ang apat na progresibong lider ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng Philippine Army at PNP. Nangangati ang kamay ng mga berdugong huliin ang lima kapalit ng duguang pabuyang iniaalok ni Duterte sa bawat masasakoteng kritiko ng kanyang gubyerno. Ang masahol pa, isinabay sa kulungan kahit ang isang taong gulang na anak ng isa sa mga hinuli.
Tumitindi rin ang panggigipit at censorship sa sektor ng midya. Pinagbabantaan ni Duterte na hindi bibigyan ng prangkisa ang ABS-CBN, isa sa pinakamalalaking kumpanya sa brodkas sa bansa matapos niyang mapikon sa ilang mga palabas ng naturang istasyon. Kahapon lamang ay hinain ni Solicitor General Jose Calida ang petisyon ng quo warranto upang hamunin ang ABS-CBN na patunayan ang karapatan nitong magkaroon ng prangkisa. Nakaamba ang pagkapaso ng prangkisa nito ngayong Marso 30. Bago pa ito, pinanghimasukan na ng PNP noong nakaraang taon ang paggawa sa palabas na Ang Probinsyano dahil umano sa pagpapakita nito ng kabulukan ng mga pulis.
Hindi nakapagtatakang ang pananakot na ito sa ABS-CBN ay kasabay naman ng pagbubuo ng bagong media group na Udenna Communications Media and Entertainment Holdings Corp. ni Dennis Uy, isang malapit na kaibigan ni Duterte.
Malinaw na nais kontrolin ni Duterte ang lahat ng tipo ng midya – mula sa mainstream hanggang sa midyang bayan bilang bahagi ng kanyang paghahabol na mahawakan nang buung-buo ang pampulitikang kapangyarihan sa bansa. Kasabay nito, tinitiyak niyang mapagbibigyan ang interes ng malalaking burgesya kumprador at negosyanteng kadikit ng kanyang rehimen. Sa gayon, natitiyak niya ang suporta ng mga ito para sa kanyang pangkatin sa panahon ng nalalapit na eleksyon.
Sa lumalalang atake sa midya at malawak na hanay ng masang lumalaban, dapat lamang magkaisa ang lahat ng mamamahayag na nagtataguyod ng makabayan at patriyotikong paninindigan. Nananawagan ang ARMAS-BIKOL sa lahat ng artista at manunulat na lumaban para sa pagpapalaya ng lahat ng bilanggong pulitikal, pag-atake sa sektor ng midya at pagtatakwil sa kontramamamayang gera ng rehimeng US-Duterte.
https://cpp.ph/statement/tumitinding-panunupil-sa-mga-mamamahayag-nagpapatuloy-sa-kamay-na-bakal-ng-rehimeng-us-duterte/
CPP/NPA-Southern Tagalog: Largadong FMO ng AFP-PNP, katumbas ng terorismo laban sa mamamayan
NPA-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Largadong FMO ng AFP-PNP, katumbas ng terorismo laban sa mamamayan
ARMANDO CIENFUEGO
SPOKESPERSON
NPA-SOUTHERN TAGALOG
NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Ipinakikita ng largadong focused military operation (FMO) ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon ng TK ngayong Enero na sila ang pangunahing terorista at tagalabag ng karapatang tao sa bansa. Higit nitong pinag-aalab ang hangarin ng mamamayan na kamtin ang hustisya para sa lahat ng biktima ng mga krimen ng mersenaryong hukbo at ibagsak sa pinakamaagang panahon ang pasista at teroristang rehimeng US-Duterte.
Kinatatangian ang mga FMO sa TK ng panghahalihaw sa mga komunidad sa interyor, pagtatayo ng mga iligal na checkpoint at paglapastangan sa karapatang tao ng mga katutubo at magsasakang residente ng mga eryang saklaw ng operasyon. Dinidirehe ng Southern Luzon Command sa ilalim ng bantog na berdugong si Gen. Antonio Parlade ang lakas-dibisyong tropa na ginagamit sa mga FMO sa iba’t ibang probinsya ng TK.
Sa Quezon, tuluy-tuloy ang operasyon ng 201st Brigade ng Philippine Army at PNP-CALABARZON sa mga barangay ng Villa Espina, Pisipis, at Vergania sa bayan ng Lopez mula Enero 10 hanggang Enero 30. Mula Enero 13 naman ay hindi nilubayan ng halos isang batalyong pwersa ng 85th IB at PNP ang ilang barangay sa Gumaca, Quezon. Nagtayo rin ang 85th IB at PNP ng mga checkpoint sa Gumaca at iba pang bayan sa Timog Quezon simula ng ikatlong linggo ng Enero.
Isang batalyon naman ng 1st IB ng Philippine Army, PNP at CAFGU ang nag-ooperasyon sa mga bayan ng Real, Sampaloc at Mauban sa Quezon at mga bayan ng Kalayaan at Luisiana sa Laguna mula pa noong ikalawang linggo ng Enero hanggang sa kasalukuyan.
Samantala, ginalugad ng mga pwersa ng 203rd Brigade at PNP-MIMAROPA ang mga interyor at piling barangay sa kapatagan sa bayan ng Rizal at San Jose sa Occidental Mindoro at Bulalacao, Mansalay, Victoria at Socorro sa Oriental Mindoro mula Enero 8 hanggang ngayon. Gumagamit ang kaaway ng dalawang kumpanya ng tropa nito sa bawat cluster na saklaw ng FMO.
Target naman ng kasalukuyang bugso ng FMO sa isla ng Palawan ang 32 baryong ipinipilit ng Western Command ng AFP at Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict na diumano’y mga base ng NPA. Ang mga baryong ito ay pawang nasa timog ng isla, partikular sa mga bayan ng Quezon, Rizal, Bataraza, Brooke’s Point at Sofronio Española kung saan ipinuwesto ang 1st Police Mobile Company ng Palawan PNP.
Katambal ng mga FMO ang lansakang paglabag sa karapatan ng mamamayan at panggugulo sa pamumuhay ng mga apektadong komunidad. Mga halimbawa nito ang iligal na paghahalughog at pagbibinbin sa isang dyip sa isang checkpoint sa Gumaca, Quezon at ang walang habas na pamumutok ng mga sundalo na nagresulta sa pagkapatay ng kalabaw ng isang magsasaka sa Rizal, Occidental Mindoro.
Tampok din ang panghaharas sa tatlong kabataang Tadyawan mula sa Barangay Happy Valley, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro noong Enero 12, kung saan sinakal ng mga sundalo ang tatlong kabataan at pinaghukay ng kanilang sariling libingan. Dahil sa FMO, sapilitang pinalikas ang mga residente mula sa anim na sityo sa tatlong barangay ng Socorro at apat na sityo sa tatlong barangay ng Victoria simula Enero 15.
Pangitang-pangita rin ang pagiging berdugo ng 203rd Brigade sa pagpatay nito sa dalawang sibilyan na sina Mark Ederson Valencia delos Santos, 21, at JR Mercado, 26, kapwa sa Oriental Mindoro. Hanggang ngayon hindi pa rin ibinibigay ng walang-pusong AFP sa mga kaanak ni Mercado ang kanyang katawan na nagtataglay ng ebidensya ng pagtortyur sa kanya.
Ang tumitinding FMO ng AFP-PNP sa TK ay palatandaan ng kabiguan nitong lipulin ang NPA sa rehiyon. Dahil hindi sumasapat ang dati nitong mga pamamaraan, nagbubuhos ito ng dagdag na rekurso, nagmomobilisa ng mas maraming tropa, at nagwawaldas ng mas maraming pondo maitulak lamang ang imbing pakana nitong durugin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan. Upang pagtakpan ang kabiguan nito, binabalingan ng mga pasistang tropa ang mamamayan at nag-iimbento ito ng mga pekeng balita at paninira hinggil sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan.
Tulad ng nangyari sa mga naunang rehimen, tiyak na mabibigo ang rehimeng Duterte at ang AFP-PNP sa layunin nitong gapiin ang rebolusyon, kahit pa patindihin ng ilampung beses ang mga FMO. Hindi ito magtatagumpay dahil superyor ang digmang bayan sa reaksyunaryong pasistang todong-gera at dahil sa patuloy na pagtutulungan ng NPA at mamamayan. Ang matatagumpay na opensiba at aktibong depensa ng mga yunit ng MGC-NPA ST ngayong Enero ang kongkretong pruweba nito. Tatapatan ng NPA-ST ng ibayong tapang at sakripisyo ang higit na bangis ng kaaway, at paulit-ulit nitong palalasapin ng pagkatalo ang pasista at mersenaryong hukbong kinasusuklaman ng mamamayan.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/largadong-fmo-ng-afp-pnp-katumbas-ng-terorismo-laban-sa-mamamayan/
Ipinakikita ng largadong focused military operation (FMO) ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon ng TK ngayong Enero na sila ang pangunahing terorista at tagalabag ng karapatang tao sa bansa. Higit nitong pinag-aalab ang hangarin ng mamamayan na kamtin ang hustisya para sa lahat ng biktima ng mga krimen ng mersenaryong hukbo at ibagsak sa pinakamaagang panahon ang pasista at teroristang rehimeng US-Duterte.
Kinatatangian ang mga FMO sa TK ng panghahalihaw sa mga komunidad sa interyor, pagtatayo ng mga iligal na checkpoint at paglapastangan sa karapatang tao ng mga katutubo at magsasakang residente ng mga eryang saklaw ng operasyon. Dinidirehe ng Southern Luzon Command sa ilalim ng bantog na berdugong si Gen. Antonio Parlade ang lakas-dibisyong tropa na ginagamit sa mga FMO sa iba’t ibang probinsya ng TK.
Sa Quezon, tuluy-tuloy ang operasyon ng 201st Brigade ng Philippine Army at PNP-CALABARZON sa mga barangay ng Villa Espina, Pisipis, at Vergania sa bayan ng Lopez mula Enero 10 hanggang Enero 30. Mula Enero 13 naman ay hindi nilubayan ng halos isang batalyong pwersa ng 85th IB at PNP ang ilang barangay sa Gumaca, Quezon. Nagtayo rin ang 85th IB at PNP ng mga checkpoint sa Gumaca at iba pang bayan sa Timog Quezon simula ng ikatlong linggo ng Enero.
Isang batalyon naman ng 1st IB ng Philippine Army, PNP at CAFGU ang nag-ooperasyon sa mga bayan ng Real, Sampaloc at Mauban sa Quezon at mga bayan ng Kalayaan at Luisiana sa Laguna mula pa noong ikalawang linggo ng Enero hanggang sa kasalukuyan.
Samantala, ginalugad ng mga pwersa ng 203rd Brigade at PNP-MIMAROPA ang mga interyor at piling barangay sa kapatagan sa bayan ng Rizal at San Jose sa Occidental Mindoro at Bulalacao, Mansalay, Victoria at Socorro sa Oriental Mindoro mula Enero 8 hanggang ngayon. Gumagamit ang kaaway ng dalawang kumpanya ng tropa nito sa bawat cluster na saklaw ng FMO.
Target naman ng kasalukuyang bugso ng FMO sa isla ng Palawan ang 32 baryong ipinipilit ng Western Command ng AFP at Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict na diumano’y mga base ng NPA. Ang mga baryong ito ay pawang nasa timog ng isla, partikular sa mga bayan ng Quezon, Rizal, Bataraza, Brooke’s Point at Sofronio Española kung saan ipinuwesto ang 1st Police Mobile Company ng Palawan PNP.
Katambal ng mga FMO ang lansakang paglabag sa karapatan ng mamamayan at panggugulo sa pamumuhay ng mga apektadong komunidad. Mga halimbawa nito ang iligal na paghahalughog at pagbibinbin sa isang dyip sa isang checkpoint sa Gumaca, Quezon at ang walang habas na pamumutok ng mga sundalo na nagresulta sa pagkapatay ng kalabaw ng isang magsasaka sa Rizal, Occidental Mindoro.
Tampok din ang panghaharas sa tatlong kabataang Tadyawan mula sa Barangay Happy Valley, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro noong Enero 12, kung saan sinakal ng mga sundalo ang tatlong kabataan at pinaghukay ng kanilang sariling libingan. Dahil sa FMO, sapilitang pinalikas ang mga residente mula sa anim na sityo sa tatlong barangay ng Socorro at apat na sityo sa tatlong barangay ng Victoria simula Enero 15.
Pangitang-pangita rin ang pagiging berdugo ng 203rd Brigade sa pagpatay nito sa dalawang sibilyan na sina Mark Ederson Valencia delos Santos, 21, at JR Mercado, 26, kapwa sa Oriental Mindoro. Hanggang ngayon hindi pa rin ibinibigay ng walang-pusong AFP sa mga kaanak ni Mercado ang kanyang katawan na nagtataglay ng ebidensya ng pagtortyur sa kanya.
Ang tumitinding FMO ng AFP-PNP sa TK ay palatandaan ng kabiguan nitong lipulin ang NPA sa rehiyon. Dahil hindi sumasapat ang dati nitong mga pamamaraan, nagbubuhos ito ng dagdag na rekurso, nagmomobilisa ng mas maraming tropa, at nagwawaldas ng mas maraming pondo maitulak lamang ang imbing pakana nitong durugin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan. Upang pagtakpan ang kabiguan nito, binabalingan ng mga pasistang tropa ang mamamayan at nag-iimbento ito ng mga pekeng balita at paninira hinggil sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan.
Tulad ng nangyari sa mga naunang rehimen, tiyak na mabibigo ang rehimeng Duterte at ang AFP-PNP sa layunin nitong gapiin ang rebolusyon, kahit pa patindihin ng ilampung beses ang mga FMO. Hindi ito magtatagumpay dahil superyor ang digmang bayan sa reaksyunaryong pasistang todong-gera at dahil sa patuloy na pagtutulungan ng NPA at mamamayan. Ang matatagumpay na opensiba at aktibong depensa ng mga yunit ng MGC-NPA ST ngayong Enero ang kongkretong pruweba nito. Tatapatan ng NPA-ST ng ibayong tapang at sakripisyo ang higit na bangis ng kaaway, at paulit-ulit nitong palalasapin ng pagkatalo ang pasista at mersenaryong hukbong kinasusuklaman ng mamamayan.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/largadong-fmo-ng-afp-pnp-katumbas-ng-terorismo-laban-sa-mamamayan/
CPP/NDF-Southern Tagalog: Hinggil sa mabagal at inutil na pagtugon ng gubyerno sa kalamidad dulot ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal
NDF-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Hinggil sa mabagal at inutil na pagtugon ng gubyerno sa kalamidad dulot ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal
PATNUBAY DE GUIA
NDF-SOUTHERN TAGALOG
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Mariing kinokondena ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Tagalog (NDFP-ST) ang kainutilan at pagiging bangkarote ng gubyernong Duterte sa makupad pa sa pagong na paghahatid ng serbisyo sa puo-puong libong sinalanta at biktima ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Tinatayang aabot na sa 40,752 katao ang nadisloka sa pagsabog ng bulkang Taal at 38,203 ang nasa 198 na mga evacuation center sa Batangas at Cavite. Napipintong madisloka pa ang may 300,000 mamamayan kapag nangyari ang pinangangambahang kasunod na mas malakas na pagsabog.
Unang araw pa lamang ng pagsisimula ng pag-aalburoto hanggang sa aktwal na pagputok ng bulkang Taal, pangita na agad ang kapabayaan at kawalang kahandaan ng gubyerno sa pagtugon sa kalamidad. Hindi agad naiparating ng National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) sa lokal na katapat nito sa probinsya ng Batangas ang kautusan sa mga lokal na gubyerno na agaran nang palikasin ang mga tao na naninirahan sa isla ng bulkang Taal at mga nasa paligid ng Lawa ng Taal matapos itaas ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) ang alert level 4 mula sa dating alert level 2.
Sa kawalan ng maagap na abiso mula sa gubyerno maraming tao ang nalagay sa panganib habang ang iba ay nagkusa nang nagsilikas at nagkanya-kanya nang hanap ng mga lugar para sa kanilang kaligtasan. Ang ilang residente mula sa mga bayan ng Laurel at Agoncillo ay binagtas ang matarik at mapanganib na daan papuntang Alfonso, Cavite para iligtas ang sarili dahil sa kawalan ng dumarating na tulong mula sa gubyerno para sila ay agarang mailikas.
Ipinapakita ng mga pangyayari kung gaano kakupad, kainutil at dis-organisado ang pagtugon ng rehimeng Duterte at mga ahensya nito sa mga pangangailangan ng mga mamamayang nagbakwit.
Wala talaga sa interes ng gubyernong Duterte ang pagbibigay ng prayoridad at mabigat na pansin upang paghandaan ang darating na mga kalamidad sa bansa. Katunayan, imbis na dagdagan ang kakapiranggot na 20 bilyong piso na calamity fund noong 2019 binawasan pa ito ng 4 bilyong piso ngayong 2020 habang pinalaki tungong 9.3 bilyon ang confidential and intelligence funds ng Office of the President, Department of National Defence, DILG at iba pang ahensya ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno na gagamitin lamang sa pagsupil sa mamamayan.
Ang mga intelligence and confidential fund ay hindi sumasailalim sa pagsusuri ng Commission on Audit (COA) kaya malayang nagagawa ng mga tiwaling opisyal ng gubyerno tulad ni Duterte na waldasin at kurakutin ang pondo ng bayan. Bukod pa dito ang mga isiningit sa badyet na bilyon-bilyong pork barrel ng mga gahamang Kongresista at Senador.
Katulad ito sa patuloy na pagliit ng pondo na inilalaan ng gubyerno sa mga serbisyong panlipunan. Ang maliit na ngang nakalaan para sa calamity fund ng mga lokal na gubyerno ay lalo pang nababawasan nang malaki dahil sa talamak na korupsyon ng matataas na opisyal ng gubyerno. Samantala, patuloy namang naglalakihan ang mga pondo ng AFP at PNP lalo na ang kanilang intelligence fund at budget sa madugong gyera sa iligal na droga at kontra insurehensya. Halos doble din ang inilaki ng pondong nakalaan sa intelligence and confidential fund ng Office of the President na umabot sa 4.5 bilyong piso mula sa dating 2.5 bilyong piso noong 2019.
Walang kahihiyan pang nanawagan si Año sa mga pribadong donasyon para sa mga bakwit ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal habang iniipit at ibinubulsa ng DILG at mga tiwaling opisyal ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno ang bilyon-bilyong calamity fund.
Kung tutuusin mula sa mga pribadong entidad ang dumadagsang donasyon at tulong. Aktibo ding ibinubukas ng simbahan at mga pribadong mapagkawang-gawa ang kanilang rekurso at pasilidad para sa mga bakwit. Mula sa mga organisasyon ng mamamayan at mga estudyante nagmumula ang maraming mga boluntaryo sa mga relief operation na inoorganisa ng mga progresibo.
Sa harap ng malaking sakunang ito, nakuha pa ng mga ahensya ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno na gamitin ang kalamidad para makakuha ng publisidad at magpabango sa tao. Ipinapakita lamang ito ang pagiging manhid, hiwalay sa reyalidad at kawalan ng malasakit ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa kinasasadlakang kalagayan ng mga mamamayang nasalanta at naapektuhan ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal.
Wala sa lugar at manhid ang pahayag ni Secretary William Dar ng Department of Agriculture (DA) na handa nilang pautangin ng halagang 25 libong piso, na walang interes at babayaran sa loob ng 3 taon, ang mga magsasaka at mangingisdang napinsala ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Malaking insulto ito para sa mga magsasaka at mangingisda na nadisloka ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Kagyat na tulong at hindi pautang ang kailangan nila sa kasalukuyan. Kailangan din nila ang malinaw, komprehensibo at pangmatagalang plano mula sa gubyerno kung paano sila matutulungan para ibangon ang nawasak nilang tahanan at kabuhayan. Sa inihahaing pautang ng DA, hindi pa man nakakabangon ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda sa pinsala ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal, gusto pa silang ibaon ng DA sa panibagong pagkakautang.
Isa pa itong garapal at pasistang Secretary Eduardo Año ng DILG na walang kahihiyang ipinababalikat sa mga pribadong entidad ang paghahatid ng tulong sa mga nasalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal habang ang kanyang ahensya, na limpak limpak ang hawak na intelligence fund, ay ni wala o kakarampot ang halagang inilaan sa pagtulong sa mga nasalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Mas gugustuhin pa ng pasistang si Secretary Año na gamitin ang pondo ng DILG sa pagsupil at pagpaslang sa mga mamamayan na itinuturing nilang “kaaway ng estado” kaysa paglaanan ng pondo ang mga biktima ng kalamidad.
Samantala, nanatiling buhay ang diwa ng damayan at pagmamalasakit sa hanay ng ating mga kababayan. Mabilis na dumaloy at bumaha ang mga tulong na nanggaling sa mga pribadong indibidwal, simbahan, institusyon, mga progresibong grupo at samahan, mula sa iba’t ibang panig ng bansa, na di hamak na mas mabilis makarating sa tao kumpara sa tulong na nanggagaling sa reaksyunaryong gubyerno.
Kahanga-hanga din ang mabilis na pagtugon ng ating mga kababayan sa pangangailangan ng mga bakwit. Sila ang unang nakatugon at nakasagip sa mga kababayan nating nalagay sa panganib ang buhay dahil sa pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Mabilis ilang nangalap ng mga donasyon at tulong para agarang ipantawid-gutom ng mga nasalanta. Ibinukas nila ang kanilang mga tahanan para kupkupin ang mga nagsilikas bilang alternatibo sa kakulangan ng mga lugar para gawing evacaution center ng mga lokal na gubyerno.
Kabaligtaran ito sa mga ginawa at naging performance ng mga ahensya ng gubyernong Duterte. Ang tanging ipinamamalaki ng NDRRMC na ayuda ay ang ga-mumong humigit-kumulang sa dalawang (2) milyong panagip na tulong. Samantala, si Duterte ay 2 milyong face mask lamang ang naipadalang tulong sa mga sinalanta ng pagputok ng bulkan.
Lalo lamang nahubad sa publiko ang pagiging inutil, pabaya at walang malasakit ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa pangangailangan at kapakanan ng taumbayan. Ang pagbisita niya sa evacuation center sa Bauan, Batangas ay bahagi ng kanyang media publicity—pagpapakitang-tao at pagkukunwaring nakikiramay sa sinapit ng mga kababayan nating Batangueño. Hindi na nito kaya pang tabunan o pagtakpan ang kanyang mga kapabayaan, kawalan ng kahandaan at pagiging inutil sa pagtugon sa mga kalamidad na dumarating sa bansa. Ang gubyernong Duterte mismo ang pinakamalaking kalamidad na tumama sa mamamayan.
Ang NDFP-ST ay laging kaisa at maaasahan ng taumbayan sa paghahatid ng tulong sa mga kababayan nating sinalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal tulad sa naging tulong nito sa mga biktima ng mga bagyo at lindol sa nakaraan. Mahigpit ding kaisa at laging kasama ng taumbayan ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa patuloy na paglaban sa mga anti-mamamayang patakaran at programa ng korap, traydor, pabaya, kriminal at pusakal na mamamatay tao na pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte. ###
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-mabagal-at-inutil-na-pagtugon-ng-gubyerno-sa-kalamidad-dulot-ng-pagputok-ng-bulkang-taal/
Mariing kinokondena ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Tagalog (NDFP-ST) ang kainutilan at pagiging bangkarote ng gubyernong Duterte sa makupad pa sa pagong na paghahatid ng serbisyo sa puo-puong libong sinalanta at biktima ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Tinatayang aabot na sa 40,752 katao ang nadisloka sa pagsabog ng bulkang Taal at 38,203 ang nasa 198 na mga evacuation center sa Batangas at Cavite. Napipintong madisloka pa ang may 300,000 mamamayan kapag nangyari ang pinangangambahang kasunod na mas malakas na pagsabog.
Unang araw pa lamang ng pagsisimula ng pag-aalburoto hanggang sa aktwal na pagputok ng bulkang Taal, pangita na agad ang kapabayaan at kawalang kahandaan ng gubyerno sa pagtugon sa kalamidad. Hindi agad naiparating ng National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) sa lokal na katapat nito sa probinsya ng Batangas ang kautusan sa mga lokal na gubyerno na agaran nang palikasin ang mga tao na naninirahan sa isla ng bulkang Taal at mga nasa paligid ng Lawa ng Taal matapos itaas ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvocs) ang alert level 4 mula sa dating alert level 2.
Sa kawalan ng maagap na abiso mula sa gubyerno maraming tao ang nalagay sa panganib habang ang iba ay nagkusa nang nagsilikas at nagkanya-kanya nang hanap ng mga lugar para sa kanilang kaligtasan. Ang ilang residente mula sa mga bayan ng Laurel at Agoncillo ay binagtas ang matarik at mapanganib na daan papuntang Alfonso, Cavite para iligtas ang sarili dahil sa kawalan ng dumarating na tulong mula sa gubyerno para sila ay agarang mailikas.
Ipinapakita ng mga pangyayari kung gaano kakupad, kainutil at dis-organisado ang pagtugon ng rehimeng Duterte at mga ahensya nito sa mga pangangailangan ng mga mamamayang nagbakwit.
Wala talaga sa interes ng gubyernong Duterte ang pagbibigay ng prayoridad at mabigat na pansin upang paghandaan ang darating na mga kalamidad sa bansa. Katunayan, imbis na dagdagan ang kakapiranggot na 20 bilyong piso na calamity fund noong 2019 binawasan pa ito ng 4 bilyong piso ngayong 2020 habang pinalaki tungong 9.3 bilyon ang confidential and intelligence funds ng Office of the President, Department of National Defence, DILG at iba pang ahensya ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno na gagamitin lamang sa pagsupil sa mamamayan.
Ang mga intelligence and confidential fund ay hindi sumasailalim sa pagsusuri ng Commission on Audit (COA) kaya malayang nagagawa ng mga tiwaling opisyal ng gubyerno tulad ni Duterte na waldasin at kurakutin ang pondo ng bayan. Bukod pa dito ang mga isiningit sa badyet na bilyon-bilyong pork barrel ng mga gahamang Kongresista at Senador.
Katulad ito sa patuloy na pagliit ng pondo na inilalaan ng gubyerno sa mga serbisyong panlipunan. Ang maliit na ngang nakalaan para sa calamity fund ng mga lokal na gubyerno ay lalo pang nababawasan nang malaki dahil sa talamak na korupsyon ng matataas na opisyal ng gubyerno. Samantala, patuloy namang naglalakihan ang mga pondo ng AFP at PNP lalo na ang kanilang intelligence fund at budget sa madugong gyera sa iligal na droga at kontra insurehensya. Halos doble din ang inilaki ng pondong nakalaan sa intelligence and confidential fund ng Office of the President na umabot sa 4.5 bilyong piso mula sa dating 2.5 bilyong piso noong 2019.
Walang kahihiyan pang nanawagan si Año sa mga pribadong donasyon para sa mga bakwit ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal habang iniipit at ibinubulsa ng DILG at mga tiwaling opisyal ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno ang bilyon-bilyong calamity fund.
Kung tutuusin mula sa mga pribadong entidad ang dumadagsang donasyon at tulong. Aktibo ding ibinubukas ng simbahan at mga pribadong mapagkawang-gawa ang kanilang rekurso at pasilidad para sa mga bakwit. Mula sa mga organisasyon ng mamamayan at mga estudyante nagmumula ang maraming mga boluntaryo sa mga relief operation na inoorganisa ng mga progresibo.
Sa harap ng malaking sakunang ito, nakuha pa ng mga ahensya ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno na gamitin ang kalamidad para makakuha ng publisidad at magpabango sa tao. Ipinapakita lamang ito ang pagiging manhid, hiwalay sa reyalidad at kawalan ng malasakit ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa kinasasadlakang kalagayan ng mga mamamayang nasalanta at naapektuhan ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal.
Wala sa lugar at manhid ang pahayag ni Secretary William Dar ng Department of Agriculture (DA) na handa nilang pautangin ng halagang 25 libong piso, na walang interes at babayaran sa loob ng 3 taon, ang mga magsasaka at mangingisdang napinsala ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Malaking insulto ito para sa mga magsasaka at mangingisda na nadisloka ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Kagyat na tulong at hindi pautang ang kailangan nila sa kasalukuyan. Kailangan din nila ang malinaw, komprehensibo at pangmatagalang plano mula sa gubyerno kung paano sila matutulungan para ibangon ang nawasak nilang tahanan at kabuhayan. Sa inihahaing pautang ng DA, hindi pa man nakakabangon ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda sa pinsala ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal, gusto pa silang ibaon ng DA sa panibagong pagkakautang.
Isa pa itong garapal at pasistang Secretary Eduardo Año ng DILG na walang kahihiyang ipinababalikat sa mga pribadong entidad ang paghahatid ng tulong sa mga nasalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal habang ang kanyang ahensya, na limpak limpak ang hawak na intelligence fund, ay ni wala o kakarampot ang halagang inilaan sa pagtulong sa mga nasalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Mas gugustuhin pa ng pasistang si Secretary Año na gamitin ang pondo ng DILG sa pagsupil at pagpaslang sa mga mamamayan na itinuturing nilang “kaaway ng estado” kaysa paglaanan ng pondo ang mga biktima ng kalamidad.
Samantala, nanatiling buhay ang diwa ng damayan at pagmamalasakit sa hanay ng ating mga kababayan. Mabilis na dumaloy at bumaha ang mga tulong na nanggaling sa mga pribadong indibidwal, simbahan, institusyon, mga progresibong grupo at samahan, mula sa iba’t ibang panig ng bansa, na di hamak na mas mabilis makarating sa tao kumpara sa tulong na nanggagaling sa reaksyunaryong gubyerno.
Kahanga-hanga din ang mabilis na pagtugon ng ating mga kababayan sa pangangailangan ng mga bakwit. Sila ang unang nakatugon at nakasagip sa mga kababayan nating nalagay sa panganib ang buhay dahil sa pagputok ng bulkang Taal. Mabilis ilang nangalap ng mga donasyon at tulong para agarang ipantawid-gutom ng mga nasalanta. Ibinukas nila ang kanilang mga tahanan para kupkupin ang mga nagsilikas bilang alternatibo sa kakulangan ng mga lugar para gawing evacaution center ng mga lokal na gubyerno.
Kabaligtaran ito sa mga ginawa at naging performance ng mga ahensya ng gubyernong Duterte. Ang tanging ipinamamalaki ng NDRRMC na ayuda ay ang ga-mumong humigit-kumulang sa dalawang (2) milyong panagip na tulong. Samantala, si Duterte ay 2 milyong face mask lamang ang naipadalang tulong sa mga sinalanta ng pagputok ng bulkan.
Lalo lamang nahubad sa publiko ang pagiging inutil, pabaya at walang malasakit ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa pangangailangan at kapakanan ng taumbayan. Ang pagbisita niya sa evacuation center sa Bauan, Batangas ay bahagi ng kanyang media publicity—pagpapakitang-tao at pagkukunwaring nakikiramay sa sinapit ng mga kababayan nating Batangueño. Hindi na nito kaya pang tabunan o pagtakpan ang kanyang mga kapabayaan, kawalan ng kahandaan at pagiging inutil sa pagtugon sa mga kalamidad na dumarating sa bansa. Ang gubyernong Duterte mismo ang pinakamalaking kalamidad na tumama sa mamamayan.
Ang NDFP-ST ay laging kaisa at maaasahan ng taumbayan sa paghahatid ng tulong sa mga kababayan nating sinalanta ng pagputok ng bulkang Taal tulad sa naging tulong nito sa mga biktima ng mga bagyo at lindol sa nakaraan. Mahigpit ding kaisa at laging kasama ng taumbayan ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa patuloy na paglaban sa mga anti-mamamayang patakaran at programa ng korap, traydor, pabaya, kriminal at pusakal na mamamatay tao na pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte. ###
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-mabagal-at-inutil-na-pagtugon-ng-gubyerno-sa-kalamidad-dulot-ng-pagputok-ng-bulkang-taal/
CPP-Southern Tagalog: Hinggil sa bantang “pagbuwag” ni Duterte sa VFA
CPP-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Hinggil sa bantang “pagbuwag” ni Duterte sa VFA
KOMITENG REHIYON
TIMOG KATAGALUGAN
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Isang pampulitikang panggagantso at pag-aasta ang banta ni Duterte na tatapusin niya ang Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) sa US. Sa balanse ng pwersa, di hamak na mas nakalalamang ang mga pwersang maka-US sa loob ng gubyernong Duterte at sa sangay ng lehislatibo at hudisyal, sa mga heneral ng AFP at PNP, sa hanay ng malalaking negosyo at mga burges na oposisyon.
Ang bantang pagbuwag sa VFA ay bahagi ng pakikipaglaro ni Duterte sa US at China. Nagdedemanda siya ng dagdag na konsesyon mula sa US habang ginagamit niya ang mga “anti-US” na pahayag upang makakuha ng suporta mula sa China at Russia laban sa US. Bahagi ito ng kanyang pangarap na gising na makapanatili sa poder ng estado lagpas sa 2022.
Sa kabilang banda, kataksilan sa bayan ang pagtatanggol nina Lorenzana, Esperon at Año (LEA) sa VFA. Nais tiyakin ng tatlong ito ang patuloy na dominasyon ng US sa bansa. Inaasahan ng US ang LEA, na pawang nasa tuktok ng AFP-PNP at gabinete, bilang instrumento upang hawakan si Duterte sa leeg at bayag. Tinitiyak ng LEA na anuman ang gawin ni Duterte, maidederehe pa rin ang reaksyunaryong estado ayon sa mga imbing pakana ng US na manatiling dominanteng kapangyarihan sa Asya-Pasipiko.
Ang pagkubabaw ng US sa bansa ang nagtakda ng pagiging malakolonyal at malapyudal ng Pilipinas. Ang VFA ay simbolo ng pangangayupapa ng mga lokal na papet sa imperyalistang interes at kapangyarihan. Sa tulong ng malalaking burgesya kumprador, panginoong mayupa at burukrata kapitalista, pinananatili ng US na atrasado at bansot ang industriya ng Pilipinas para maging tapunan ng sarplas na produkto at kapital at tagasuplay ng hilaw na materyal at mga bahagyang prinoseso at may mababang-dagdag-na-halagang kalakal ng mga sweatshops industry.
Sa aspetong militar, kailangan ng US ang VFA sa pagtupad sa geopulitikal na estratehiya nito sa Asya-Pasipiko. Pinahihintulutan nito ang maluwag na labas-pasok at walang-taning na pamamalagi ng mga pwersa at kagamitang militar ng US sa bansa. Dahil dito, nagiging lehitimo ang panghihimasok ng mga sundalong Amerikano sa mga panloob na usapin sa bansa.
Kamakailan, ginawa ng US ang East Asia pivot upang tapatan at pigilan ang paglakas ng imperyalistang China sa daigdig. Pinopostehan ng US ang mga bansa sa paligid ng China. Sa geopulitikal na estratehiya ng imperyalismong US, ang Palawan sa Timog Katagalugan ay bahagi ng ikalawang linya ng depensa nito laban sa China, lalo sa harap ng pagtatayo ng huli ng mga istrukturang pangmilitar sa mga pinag-aagawang isla sa West Philippine Sea. Ang kasalukuyang nagaganap na Balance Piston 20-01, isang ehersisyong militar sa pagitan ng AFP at mga tropa ng US sa Palawan laban sa China, ay patunay na nag-iilusyon lang si Duterte na kaya niyang ipawalambisa ang VFA.
Nagkakamali si Duterte na mapapayukod niya ang US sa kanyang kagustuhan; bagkus, mas mapapabilis nito ang pagbasura ng US sa kanya. Ang mga hakbang ng US para gipitin si Duterte ay upang paalalahanan si Duterte na hindi nasisiyahan ang US sa kabiguan nitong wasakin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan.
Mabilis na nahihiwalay ang rehimeng Duterte dahil sa labis na brutalidad at mamamatay-tao. Kabi-kabila ang pagkondena ng mga bansa sa Europa at ng United Nations sa gera-kontra iligal na droga at lansakang paglapastangan sa karapatang-tao ng mga Pilipino. Kamakailan ay pinatawan ng sanctions ng Kongreso ng US ang mga alipores at kroni ni Duterte dahil sa ginawang pagkulong kay Senador de Lima at panggigipit sa burges na oposisyon at mga kritiko ng rehimen. Ang mga ito ay senyales na hindi natutuwa ang amo sa kanyang tuta. Hindi malayong sapitin ni Duterte ang kapalaran ng iniidolo niyang si Marcos. Sa malao’t madali, kung hindi maibabagsak ng mamamayan si Duterte, patatalsikin siya ng isang kudetang militar na suportado ng US.
Ang lumalalim na krisis sa bansa bunga ng imperyalistang paghahari ng US at ng desperasyon ni Duterte sa natitira niyang dalawang taon ay higit na magpapabilis sa pagsulong ng demokratikong rebolusyong bayan. Patuloy na lalakas ang armadong pakikibaka at lalawak ang kilusang anti-imperyalista, anti-pasista at antipyudal para labanan at ibagsak ang rehimeng US-Duterte at sa tamang panahon, ang buong naghaharing sistema. Sa pananagumpay ng pambansa-demokratikong rebolusyon na may sosyalistang perspektiba, makakamit ang demokratiko at pambansang minimithi ng mamamayan at ang paglaya ng Pilipinas sa kuko ng Imperyalismong US.
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-bantang-pagbuwag-ni-duterte-sa-vfa/
Isang pampulitikang panggagantso at pag-aasta ang banta ni Duterte na tatapusin niya ang Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) sa US. Sa balanse ng pwersa, di hamak na mas nakalalamang ang mga pwersang maka-US sa loob ng gubyernong Duterte at sa sangay ng lehislatibo at hudisyal, sa mga heneral ng AFP at PNP, sa hanay ng malalaking negosyo at mga burges na oposisyon.
Ang bantang pagbuwag sa VFA ay bahagi ng pakikipaglaro ni Duterte sa US at China. Nagdedemanda siya ng dagdag na konsesyon mula sa US habang ginagamit niya ang mga “anti-US” na pahayag upang makakuha ng suporta mula sa China at Russia laban sa US. Bahagi ito ng kanyang pangarap na gising na makapanatili sa poder ng estado lagpas sa 2022.
Sa kabilang banda, kataksilan sa bayan ang pagtatanggol nina Lorenzana, Esperon at Año (LEA) sa VFA. Nais tiyakin ng tatlong ito ang patuloy na dominasyon ng US sa bansa. Inaasahan ng US ang LEA, na pawang nasa tuktok ng AFP-PNP at gabinete, bilang instrumento upang hawakan si Duterte sa leeg at bayag. Tinitiyak ng LEA na anuman ang gawin ni Duterte, maidederehe pa rin ang reaksyunaryong estado ayon sa mga imbing pakana ng US na manatiling dominanteng kapangyarihan sa Asya-Pasipiko.
Ang pagkubabaw ng US sa bansa ang nagtakda ng pagiging malakolonyal at malapyudal ng Pilipinas. Ang VFA ay simbolo ng pangangayupapa ng mga lokal na papet sa imperyalistang interes at kapangyarihan. Sa tulong ng malalaking burgesya kumprador, panginoong mayupa at burukrata kapitalista, pinananatili ng US na atrasado at bansot ang industriya ng Pilipinas para maging tapunan ng sarplas na produkto at kapital at tagasuplay ng hilaw na materyal at mga bahagyang prinoseso at may mababang-dagdag-na-halagang kalakal ng mga sweatshops industry.
Sa aspetong militar, kailangan ng US ang VFA sa pagtupad sa geopulitikal na estratehiya nito sa Asya-Pasipiko. Pinahihintulutan nito ang maluwag na labas-pasok at walang-taning na pamamalagi ng mga pwersa at kagamitang militar ng US sa bansa. Dahil dito, nagiging lehitimo ang panghihimasok ng mga sundalong Amerikano sa mga panloob na usapin sa bansa.
Kamakailan, ginawa ng US ang East Asia pivot upang tapatan at pigilan ang paglakas ng imperyalistang China sa daigdig. Pinopostehan ng US ang mga bansa sa paligid ng China. Sa geopulitikal na estratehiya ng imperyalismong US, ang Palawan sa Timog Katagalugan ay bahagi ng ikalawang linya ng depensa nito laban sa China, lalo sa harap ng pagtatayo ng huli ng mga istrukturang pangmilitar sa mga pinag-aagawang isla sa West Philippine Sea. Ang kasalukuyang nagaganap na Balance Piston 20-01, isang ehersisyong militar sa pagitan ng AFP at mga tropa ng US sa Palawan laban sa China, ay patunay na nag-iilusyon lang si Duterte na kaya niyang ipawalambisa ang VFA.
Nagkakamali si Duterte na mapapayukod niya ang US sa kanyang kagustuhan; bagkus, mas mapapabilis nito ang pagbasura ng US sa kanya. Ang mga hakbang ng US para gipitin si Duterte ay upang paalalahanan si Duterte na hindi nasisiyahan ang US sa kabiguan nitong wasakin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan.
Mabilis na nahihiwalay ang rehimeng Duterte dahil sa labis na brutalidad at mamamatay-tao. Kabi-kabila ang pagkondena ng mga bansa sa Europa at ng United Nations sa gera-kontra iligal na droga at lansakang paglapastangan sa karapatang-tao ng mga Pilipino. Kamakailan ay pinatawan ng sanctions ng Kongreso ng US ang mga alipores at kroni ni Duterte dahil sa ginawang pagkulong kay Senador de Lima at panggigipit sa burges na oposisyon at mga kritiko ng rehimen. Ang mga ito ay senyales na hindi natutuwa ang amo sa kanyang tuta. Hindi malayong sapitin ni Duterte ang kapalaran ng iniidolo niyang si Marcos. Sa malao’t madali, kung hindi maibabagsak ng mamamayan si Duterte, patatalsikin siya ng isang kudetang militar na suportado ng US.
Ang lumalalim na krisis sa bansa bunga ng imperyalistang paghahari ng US at ng desperasyon ni Duterte sa natitira niyang dalawang taon ay higit na magpapabilis sa pagsulong ng demokratikong rebolusyong bayan. Patuloy na lalakas ang armadong pakikibaka at lalawak ang kilusang anti-imperyalista, anti-pasista at antipyudal para labanan at ibagsak ang rehimeng US-Duterte at sa tamang panahon, ang buong naghaharing sistema. Sa pananagumpay ng pambansa-demokratikong rebolusyon na may sosyalistang perspektiba, makakamit ang demokratiko at pambansang minimithi ng mamamayan at ang paglaya ng Pilipinas sa kuko ng Imperyalismong US.
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-bantang-pagbuwag-ni-duterte-sa-vfa/
CPP: Botad | Enero 2020
Ilocos/Cordillera regional propaganda publication posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 10, 2020): Botad | Enero 2020
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CPP/NDF-Southern Tagalog: Hinggil sa Novel Coronavirus
NDF-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Hinggil sa Novel Coronavirus
PATNUBAY DE GUIA
NDF-SOUTHERN TAGALOG
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Mariing kinokondena ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Tagalog (NDFP-ST) ang pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa pagiging makupad, inutil at kawalan ng mapagpasyang hakbangin paano haharapin at maiwasang makapasok sa bansa ang nakamamatay na novel coronavirus (nCov). Ngayong kumpirmado nang nakapasok sa bansa ang kinakatakutang nCov, walang ibang dapat sisihin ang taumbayan kundi ang rehimeng Duterte dahil sa pagbabantulot nitong magpatupad ng mga drastikong hakbangin upang maiwasang makapasok sa bansa ang nCov. Maige lamang ang gubyernong Duterte sa pagyayabang at pagpapakitang-gilas subalit kapos at ampaw ang mga programa pagdating sa pagbibigay proteksyon at pagtugon sa kagalingan at pangangailangan ng taumbayan.
Sa pangyayaring ito, muling nalantad ang kriminal na kapabayaan at kainutilan ng gubyernong Duterte na harapin ang krisis sa pampublikong kalusugan ng mga Pilipino mula sa banta na maging lubos na epidemya ang nakamamatay na nCov na naunang sumiklap sa bansang China. Ang kawalan ng maagap, maingat at episyenteng sistema ng gubyernong Duterte sa pagmonitor, kontrol at pagkwarantina sa mga posibleng nagdadala ng nCov ang pangunahing dahilan kung bakit nakapasok sa bansa ang kinakatakutang nCov.
At ngayon, hilong talilong naman ang gubyerno sa kahahanap ng paraan kung paano maiiwasan ang posibleng pagkalat ng nakamamatay na virus sa iba pang Pilipino matapos madala ito sa bansa ng isang 38 taong gulang na turistang Chino na nanggaling sa Wuhan City. Ayon sa ulat ng Department of Health (DOH) mayroong 31 pasyente ang kasalukuyang sumasailalim sa pagsusuri sa posibilidad na nahawahan sila ng nCov.
Sa pagkapasok sa bansa ng nCov, pinatunayan muli ang walang kaparis na kainutilan at pagiging bangkarote ng gubyernong Duterte tulad sa mabagal at nakakadismayang pagtugon nito sa pangangailangan ng mga naging biktima ng mga sakuna at kalamidad dulot ng bagyo at lindol sa nakaraan at sa nangyaring pagputok ng bulkang Taal kamakailan.
Mariing kinokondena din ng NDFP-ST ang higit na pagpapahalaga ng rehimen sa ispesyal na relasyong umiiral sa pagitan ng gubyernong Duterte at ng gubyernong Chino kaysa sa kapakanan ng mga Pilipino sa panahong may nagbabadyang krisis sa pampublikong kalusugan sa bansa. Ang ispesyal na relasyong ito ay pangita hindi lamang sa tahasang pagkakaloob ni Duterte ng mga proyekto na makaisang-panig at pabor sa interes ng mga malalaking negosyong Chino kundi maging sa pagharap at pagtrato ni Duterte sa isyu ng nCov na mula sa China.
Palibhasa’y takot na maantagonisa, mabahiran ng mantsa at masira ang “ispesyal” na relasyong mayroon si Duterte sa gubyernong China, bantulot, maingat at umiiwas na magpatupad ang rehimeng Duterte ng mga drastikong hakbang na maaaring makasira sa nabuong relasyon nito sa gubyernong China—dahilan para makapasok sa bansa ang nCov.
Sa katunayan, kahit matindi na ang balita sa dumaraming kaso ng mga namamatay at tinatamaan ng nCov sa probinsya ng Hubei, lalo na sa kapitolyo nitong Wuhan, patuloy pa rin ang pagpasok sa bansa ng mga turistang Chino na hindi mahigpit na nasasala at nasasansala sa mga paliparan at daungan ng bansa kahit ang mga ito’y nanggaling sa Hubei. Saka lamang gumawa ng hakbang ang gubyernong Duterte kung kailan may isang turistang Chino na nakapasok sa bansa na nakumpirmang may nakamamatay na nCov.
Tulak ng lumalaking presyur ng taumbayan, saka lamang naobliga si Duterte na ipag-utos ang pagpapatupad ng travel ban at pansamantalang pagsasara ng bansa sa pagpasok ng mga Chino at iba pang dayuhan na nagmula sa Hubei na pinagsimulan at naging sentro ng epidemya ng nakamamatay na virus. Subalit taliwas pa din ito sa panawagan ng taumbayan na ipagbawal na muna ang pagpasok sa bansa ng mga Chino at iba pang dayuhan mula sa iba pang panig ng bansang China na may mataas na insidente ng nCov infection at hindi na lamang mula sa probinsya ng Hubei.
Sa kasalukuyan, ayon sa mga balita, mahigit sa 250 ang namatay na sa nCov at nasa mahigit sa 11,600 ang tinamaan nito sa Wuhan City, iba pang panig ng probinsya ng Hubei at maging sa iba pang syudad sa China. Mahigit sa 9,800 naman ang kumpirmadong infected ng nCov sa 23 na bansa sa mundo kabilang ang Pilipinas. Nagdeklara na rin ang World Health Organization (WHO) ng global health emergency dahil sa mabilis na paglaganap ng nCov sa iba pang mga bansa. Nagsimula na ring ilikas ng mga gubyerno ang kanilang mga mamamayan na nasa probinsya ng Hubei, ang sentro ng epidemya, para iligtas na mahawaan ng nCov.
Samantala, ang gubyernong Duterte ay wala pang planong agarang ilikas ang 300 Pilipino na nasa probinsya ng Hubei kung saan 150 ang nasa Wuhan City na pinagsimulan ng novel coronavirus. Sa susunod na linggo pa binabalak ng gubyernong Duterte na ilikas at pabalikin sa bansa ang unang pangkat (batch) ng mga kababayan natin na naruon sa kabila na mayroong 50 nating kababayan ang gusto ng bumalik sa bansa.
Dapat kondenahin ng taumbayan ang mabagal at mababang pagtrato ng gubyernong Duterte sa banta ng nCov na siyang dahilan kung bakit nakapasok ito sa bansa. Dapat mariing tuligsain ng taumbayan ang gubyernong Duterte na mas inuuna pang protektahan at pangalagaan ang umiiral na “ispesyal” na relasyon nito sa gubyernong China kaysa ang kaligtasan at kapakanan ng mamamayang Pilipino. Inilagay ni Duterte ang sambayanang Pilipino sa mapanganib na kalagayan na maging epidemya ang pagkalat ng nakamamatay na nCov dahil sa ispesyal na pagtrato at pakikitungo nito sa gubyernong China.
Pinaalalahanan ng NDFP-ST ang taumbayan na huwag maging mapanlait at iwasang gumawa ng mga aksyon na nagdidiskrimina sa mga Chino na nasa bansa at maging sa ibang pang mga lahi na dumating sa bansa na nanggaling sa China. Wala silang kasalanan at hindi nila kagustuhan sakali man na maging carrier sila ng nakamamatay na nCov.
May matibay na dahilan para kumilos at manawagan ang sambayanang Pilipino sa pagpapatalsik sa pwesto kay Duterte. Ito ay isang makabayan at patriyotikong tungkulin ng sambayanang Pilipino laban sa inutil, traydor, korap, pasista at mamamatay taong si Duterte. Walang ibang dapat gawin ang mamamayang Pilipino kundi ang ibagsak ang pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte dahil sa kainutilan at kawalang malasakit nito sa bayan. Dapat lang itong patalsikin sa pwesto at palitan ng pinunong mayroong malasakit sa kapakanan ng taumbayan at handang ipagtanggol ang pambansang soberenya at teritoryal na integridad ng bansa mula sa imperyalistang panghihimasok at imposisyon.
Hanggang nasa katungkulan si Duterte patuloy na mababaon sa kumunoy ng kahirapan ang mamamayang Pilipino at makakaranas ito ng matinding kalupitan mula sa kanyang pasistang paghahari. Si Duterte ang pinakamalaking trahedya na dumating sa bansa na kailangang wakasan ng sambayanang Pilipino.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-novel-coronavirus/
Mariing kinokondena ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Tagalog (NDFP-ST) ang pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte sa pagiging makupad, inutil at kawalan ng mapagpasyang hakbangin paano haharapin at maiwasang makapasok sa bansa ang nakamamatay na novel coronavirus (nCov). Ngayong kumpirmado nang nakapasok sa bansa ang kinakatakutang nCov, walang ibang dapat sisihin ang taumbayan kundi ang rehimeng Duterte dahil sa pagbabantulot nitong magpatupad ng mga drastikong hakbangin upang maiwasang makapasok sa bansa ang nCov. Maige lamang ang gubyernong Duterte sa pagyayabang at pagpapakitang-gilas subalit kapos at ampaw ang mga programa pagdating sa pagbibigay proteksyon at pagtugon sa kagalingan at pangangailangan ng taumbayan.
Sa pangyayaring ito, muling nalantad ang kriminal na kapabayaan at kainutilan ng gubyernong Duterte na harapin ang krisis sa pampublikong kalusugan ng mga Pilipino mula sa banta na maging lubos na epidemya ang nakamamatay na nCov na naunang sumiklap sa bansang China. Ang kawalan ng maagap, maingat at episyenteng sistema ng gubyernong Duterte sa pagmonitor, kontrol at pagkwarantina sa mga posibleng nagdadala ng nCov ang pangunahing dahilan kung bakit nakapasok sa bansa ang kinakatakutang nCov.
At ngayon, hilong talilong naman ang gubyerno sa kahahanap ng paraan kung paano maiiwasan ang posibleng pagkalat ng nakamamatay na virus sa iba pang Pilipino matapos madala ito sa bansa ng isang 38 taong gulang na turistang Chino na nanggaling sa Wuhan City. Ayon sa ulat ng Department of Health (DOH) mayroong 31 pasyente ang kasalukuyang sumasailalim sa pagsusuri sa posibilidad na nahawahan sila ng nCov.
Sa pagkapasok sa bansa ng nCov, pinatunayan muli ang walang kaparis na kainutilan at pagiging bangkarote ng gubyernong Duterte tulad sa mabagal at nakakadismayang pagtugon nito sa pangangailangan ng mga naging biktima ng mga sakuna at kalamidad dulot ng bagyo at lindol sa nakaraan at sa nangyaring pagputok ng bulkang Taal kamakailan.
Mariing kinokondena din ng NDFP-ST ang higit na pagpapahalaga ng rehimen sa ispesyal na relasyong umiiral sa pagitan ng gubyernong Duterte at ng gubyernong Chino kaysa sa kapakanan ng mga Pilipino sa panahong may nagbabadyang krisis sa pampublikong kalusugan sa bansa. Ang ispesyal na relasyong ito ay pangita hindi lamang sa tahasang pagkakaloob ni Duterte ng mga proyekto na makaisang-panig at pabor sa interes ng mga malalaking negosyong Chino kundi maging sa pagharap at pagtrato ni Duterte sa isyu ng nCov na mula sa China.
Palibhasa’y takot na maantagonisa, mabahiran ng mantsa at masira ang “ispesyal” na relasyong mayroon si Duterte sa gubyernong China, bantulot, maingat at umiiwas na magpatupad ang rehimeng Duterte ng mga drastikong hakbang na maaaring makasira sa nabuong relasyon nito sa gubyernong China—dahilan para makapasok sa bansa ang nCov.
Sa katunayan, kahit matindi na ang balita sa dumaraming kaso ng mga namamatay at tinatamaan ng nCov sa probinsya ng Hubei, lalo na sa kapitolyo nitong Wuhan, patuloy pa rin ang pagpasok sa bansa ng mga turistang Chino na hindi mahigpit na nasasala at nasasansala sa mga paliparan at daungan ng bansa kahit ang mga ito’y nanggaling sa Hubei. Saka lamang gumawa ng hakbang ang gubyernong Duterte kung kailan may isang turistang Chino na nakapasok sa bansa na nakumpirmang may nakamamatay na nCov.
Tulak ng lumalaking presyur ng taumbayan, saka lamang naobliga si Duterte na ipag-utos ang pagpapatupad ng travel ban at pansamantalang pagsasara ng bansa sa pagpasok ng mga Chino at iba pang dayuhan na nagmula sa Hubei na pinagsimulan at naging sentro ng epidemya ng nakamamatay na virus. Subalit taliwas pa din ito sa panawagan ng taumbayan na ipagbawal na muna ang pagpasok sa bansa ng mga Chino at iba pang dayuhan mula sa iba pang panig ng bansang China na may mataas na insidente ng nCov infection at hindi na lamang mula sa probinsya ng Hubei.
Sa kasalukuyan, ayon sa mga balita, mahigit sa 250 ang namatay na sa nCov at nasa mahigit sa 11,600 ang tinamaan nito sa Wuhan City, iba pang panig ng probinsya ng Hubei at maging sa iba pang syudad sa China. Mahigit sa 9,800 naman ang kumpirmadong infected ng nCov sa 23 na bansa sa mundo kabilang ang Pilipinas. Nagdeklara na rin ang World Health Organization (WHO) ng global health emergency dahil sa mabilis na paglaganap ng nCov sa iba pang mga bansa. Nagsimula na ring ilikas ng mga gubyerno ang kanilang mga mamamayan na nasa probinsya ng Hubei, ang sentro ng epidemya, para iligtas na mahawaan ng nCov.
Samantala, ang gubyernong Duterte ay wala pang planong agarang ilikas ang 300 Pilipino na nasa probinsya ng Hubei kung saan 150 ang nasa Wuhan City na pinagsimulan ng novel coronavirus. Sa susunod na linggo pa binabalak ng gubyernong Duterte na ilikas at pabalikin sa bansa ang unang pangkat (batch) ng mga kababayan natin na naruon sa kabila na mayroong 50 nating kababayan ang gusto ng bumalik sa bansa.
Dapat kondenahin ng taumbayan ang mabagal at mababang pagtrato ng gubyernong Duterte sa banta ng nCov na siyang dahilan kung bakit nakapasok ito sa bansa. Dapat mariing tuligsain ng taumbayan ang gubyernong Duterte na mas inuuna pang protektahan at pangalagaan ang umiiral na “ispesyal” na relasyon nito sa gubyernong China kaysa ang kaligtasan at kapakanan ng mamamayang Pilipino. Inilagay ni Duterte ang sambayanang Pilipino sa mapanganib na kalagayan na maging epidemya ang pagkalat ng nakamamatay na nCov dahil sa ispesyal na pagtrato at pakikitungo nito sa gubyernong China.
Pinaalalahanan ng NDFP-ST ang taumbayan na huwag maging mapanlait at iwasang gumawa ng mga aksyon na nagdidiskrimina sa mga Chino na nasa bansa at maging sa ibang pang mga lahi na dumating sa bansa na nanggaling sa China. Wala silang kasalanan at hindi nila kagustuhan sakali man na maging carrier sila ng nakamamatay na nCov.
May matibay na dahilan para kumilos at manawagan ang sambayanang Pilipino sa pagpapatalsik sa pwesto kay Duterte. Ito ay isang makabayan at patriyotikong tungkulin ng sambayanang Pilipino laban sa inutil, traydor, korap, pasista at mamamatay taong si Duterte. Walang ibang dapat gawin ang mamamayang Pilipino kundi ang ibagsak ang pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte dahil sa kainutilan at kawalang malasakit nito sa bayan. Dapat lang itong patalsikin sa pwesto at palitan ng pinunong mayroong malasakit sa kapakanan ng taumbayan at handang ipagtanggol ang pambansang soberenya at teritoryal na integridad ng bansa mula sa imperyalistang panghihimasok at imposisyon.
Hanggang nasa katungkulan si Duterte patuloy na mababaon sa kumunoy ng kahirapan ang mamamayang Pilipino at makakaranas ito ng matinding kalupitan mula sa kanyang pasistang paghahari. Si Duterte ang pinakamalaking trahedya na dumating sa bansa na kailangang wakasan ng sambayanang Pilipino.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-novel-coronavirus/
CPP/NPA-Southern Tagalog: Hinggil sa pagkakatalaga kay Parlade bilang bagong hepe ng SOLCOM
NDF-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Hinggil sa pagkakatalaga kay Parlade bilang bagong hepe ng SOLCOM
ARMANDO CIENFUEGO
SPOKESPERSON
NPA-SOUTHERN TAGALOG
NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Nakahanda ang Melito Glor Command – New People’s Army Southern Tagalog at mga rebolusyonaryong mamamayan ng Timog Katagalugan na labanan at biguin ang saksakan ng kasinungalingan, berdugo at anti-mamamayan na bagong talagang hepe ng SOLCOM na si Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. Mabibigo ang SOLCOM na gapiin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa Timog Katagalugan.
Isang pangarap na gising ang inaasam ni Parlade na madudurog niya ang CPP-NPA-NDFP sa TK ayon sa panibagong target ng rehimeng US-Duterte na lipulin ito sa loob ng 3 taon. Noong Commanding Officer pa lamang siya ng 203rd Brigade, nabigo siyang ubusin ang NPA sa isla ng Mindoro. Buong pagmamayabang pa niyang sinabing “kayang-kaya” puksain ang NPA sa isla sa loob ng 2 taon mula 2017. Subalit nilisan niya ang 203rd Brigade nang bigo, bagkus, nananatiling matatag na nakatayo ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa Mindoro.
Nanalasa si Parlade sa Mindoro mula 2015 hanggang 2018. Nagdulot ng ibayong hirap at siphayo ang mga inilulunsad nilang aerial bombardments at strafing sa mga komunidad at pananim ng mga katutubong Mangyan at magsasaka sa isla. Dinanas ng mamamayan ang matinding militarisasyon kung saan inokupa ng mga berdugong tropa ang mga pampublikong pasilidad at nagsasagawa ng hamletting sa interyor.
Samantala, bilang hepe ng civil-military operations ng AFP, pasimuno siya sa mga pag-atake sa mga ligal na organisasyong naggigiit at lumalaban para sa mga demokratikong karapatan ng mamamayan. Pasimuno siya ng pagpapalaganap ng kasinungalingan at pekeng balita sa bansa. Eksperto siya sa paglulubid ng kasinungalingan para malinlang at matakot ang mamamayan. Dahil dito, wala siyang ni katiting na kredibilidad sa hanay ng mamamayan.
Hindi natatakot ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa TK na harapin ang bangis ng atake ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni Parlade. Sa halip, si Parlade ang dapat manginig sa kanyang kinalalagyan ngayon. Ihanda niya ang kanyang sarili sa kabiguang makamit ang anumang plano na matatalo at mauubos ang NPA sa rehiyon. Sasalubungin ng matutunog na taktikal na opensiba ng NPA ang pagkakatalaga sa kanya bilang bagong hepe ng SOLCOM. Bibigwasan nito ang kanyang pasistang tropa at papatawan ng rebolusyonaryong hustisya bilang parusa sa kanilang mga krimen sa mamamayan.
Nakahanda ang lahat ng mga yunit ng NPA sa mga larangang gerilya na harapin ang papatinding atake ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni Parlade. Patuloy na magkakaisa ang NPA at mamamayan ng TK. Magkakapit-bisig ang mamamayan sa buong rehiyon para salagin at papurulin ang mga atake ng AFP-PNP. Gagawing bulag at bingi ng mga rebolusyonaryong pwersa at masa ang AFP-PNP sa pagkilos at atake ng NPA. Sa tulungan ng masa at Pulang hukbo, paiigtingin ang mga opensiba laban sa kaaway hanggang sa masaid ang kapasyahang lumaban ng mga tropa ng AFP-PNP at ilagay sa kahihiyan ang sagad-sa-butong anti-mamamayan at mersenaryong si Gen. Parlade.
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-pagkakatalaga-kay-parlade-bilang-bagong-hepe-ng-solcom/
Nakahanda ang Melito Glor Command – New People’s Army Southern Tagalog at mga rebolusyonaryong mamamayan ng Timog Katagalugan na labanan at biguin ang saksakan ng kasinungalingan, berdugo at anti-mamamayan na bagong talagang hepe ng SOLCOM na si Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. Mabibigo ang SOLCOM na gapiin ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa Timog Katagalugan.
Isang pangarap na gising ang inaasam ni Parlade na madudurog niya ang CPP-NPA-NDFP sa TK ayon sa panibagong target ng rehimeng US-Duterte na lipulin ito sa loob ng 3 taon. Noong Commanding Officer pa lamang siya ng 203rd Brigade, nabigo siyang ubusin ang NPA sa isla ng Mindoro. Buong pagmamayabang pa niyang sinabing “kayang-kaya” puksain ang NPA sa isla sa loob ng 2 taon mula 2017. Subalit nilisan niya ang 203rd Brigade nang bigo, bagkus, nananatiling matatag na nakatayo ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa Mindoro.
Nanalasa si Parlade sa Mindoro mula 2015 hanggang 2018. Nagdulot ng ibayong hirap at siphayo ang mga inilulunsad nilang aerial bombardments at strafing sa mga komunidad at pananim ng mga katutubong Mangyan at magsasaka sa isla. Dinanas ng mamamayan ang matinding militarisasyon kung saan inokupa ng mga berdugong tropa ang mga pampublikong pasilidad at nagsasagawa ng hamletting sa interyor.
Samantala, bilang hepe ng civil-military operations ng AFP, pasimuno siya sa mga pag-atake sa mga ligal na organisasyong naggigiit at lumalaban para sa mga demokratikong karapatan ng mamamayan. Pasimuno siya ng pagpapalaganap ng kasinungalingan at pekeng balita sa bansa. Eksperto siya sa paglulubid ng kasinungalingan para malinlang at matakot ang mamamayan. Dahil dito, wala siyang ni katiting na kredibilidad sa hanay ng mamamayan.
Hindi natatakot ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa TK na harapin ang bangis ng atake ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni Parlade. Sa halip, si Parlade ang dapat manginig sa kanyang kinalalagyan ngayon. Ihanda niya ang kanyang sarili sa kabiguang makamit ang anumang plano na matatalo at mauubos ang NPA sa rehiyon. Sasalubungin ng matutunog na taktikal na opensiba ng NPA ang pagkakatalaga sa kanya bilang bagong hepe ng SOLCOM. Bibigwasan nito ang kanyang pasistang tropa at papatawan ng rebolusyonaryong hustisya bilang parusa sa kanilang mga krimen sa mamamayan.
Nakahanda ang lahat ng mga yunit ng NPA sa mga larangang gerilya na harapin ang papatinding atake ng AFP-PNP sa rehiyon sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni Parlade. Patuloy na magkakaisa ang NPA at mamamayan ng TK. Magkakapit-bisig ang mamamayan sa buong rehiyon para salagin at papurulin ang mga atake ng AFP-PNP. Gagawing bulag at bingi ng mga rebolusyonaryong pwersa at masa ang AFP-PNP sa pagkilos at atake ng NPA. Sa tulungan ng masa at Pulang hukbo, paiigtingin ang mga opensiba laban sa kaaway hanggang sa masaid ang kapasyahang lumaban ng mga tropa ng AFP-PNP at ilagay sa kahihiyan ang sagad-sa-butong anti-mamamayan at mersenaryong si Gen. Parlade.
https://cpp.ph/statement/hinggil-sa-pagkakatalaga-kay-parlade-bilang-bagong-hepe-ng-solcom/
CPP/NDF-Southern Tagalog: Sa mag-iisang buwang pag-aalburuto ng bulkang Taal, gubyernong Duterte, pabaya sa mga biktima
NDF-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Sa mag-iisang buwang pag-aalburuto ng bulkang Taal, gubyernong Duterte, pabaya sa mga biktima
PATNUBAY DE GUIA
NDF-SOUTHERN TAGALOG
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Inutil ang gubyernong Duterte sa pagbibigay ng serbisyong sosyal at tulong sa mga biktima ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Hindi handa ang reaksyunaryong gubyerno sa pagsaklolo sa mamamayang biktima at apektado ng sakuna sa kabila ng abiso ng PhilVolcs walong buwan bago ang insidente. Lantaran ang pagpapabaya ng rehimen sa mga Batangueño at palpak ang mga programa nito para ipagkaloob ang kanilang mga pangangailangan.
Kulang na kulang ang inilalaang serbisyong sosyal at pondo ng rehimen para sa tinatayang aabot sa 300,000 na apektado ng sakuna. Nagmula ang kalakhan ng mga biktima sa Batangas, at ang iba pa’y mula sa ilang bayan ng Cavite, Laguna, Quezon at Mindoro na abot ng buga ng abo ng bulkan.
Sa unang linggo ng sakuna, sa Batangas pa lamang, aabot ng P17.2 milyon ang pondong inilaan ng gubyernong Duterte para sa 16,000 pamilya 0 70,000 indibidwal na nasa 300 evacuation centers. Katumbas ito ng P152 kada pamilya o P35 bawat indibidwal sa loob ng 7 araw. Labas pa rito ang may 6,000 pamilya na wala sa mga evacuation centers. Dumami pa ito sa pagtagal ng pagsabog ng bulkan.
Walang ginawang paghahanda ang rehimen. Ni hindi naglunsad ng drills ang lokal na ahensya para sa nakaambang sakuna. Nagtuturuan ang mga ahensya sa kakulangan ng paghahanda at abiso sa mamamayan. Kulang na kulang ang mga evacuation centers at ngayon pa lamang pinag-uusapan sa kongreso ang pagpapagawa ng panibago. Hindi rin naihanda ng rehimen ang mga N-95 face mask na kinakailangan ng mamamayan para hindi malanghap ang nakakalasong usok ng bulkan. Ginawang katatawanan na lamang ng gubyernong Duterte ang kakulangan nito kung saan ipinanawagan nilang gumamit na lamang ang mga apektado ng mga improvised face mask tulad ng bimpo, panty at bra.
Samantala, sa harap ng dinaranas na paghihirap ng mamamayan sa sakuna, ginamit pang oportunidad ng mga lokal at tradisyunal na pulitiko ang sakuna para magpakitang-gilas sa susunod na eleksyon. Kanya-kanya sila sa paghahambog sa mga nagawang ambag sa mamamayan gayong ga-mumo lamang ang tulong na ibinibigay nila. Sa kabilang banda, ni hindi bumisita si Duterte sa kalagayan ng mga biktima, bagkus, ipinaubaya na lamang sa mga lokal na yunit ng gubyerno para makaiwas sa sisi. Hindi man lang magawa ni Duterte na personal na makiramay sa mga biktima
Kulang na kulang ang pondo para sa Calamity Fund ng Batangas. Inamin ito mismo ni Gov. Mandanas. Aabot lamang ng P50 bilyon ang pinangako ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno, gayong P200 bilyon ang kailangan para sa sapat na suporta sa pangangailangan ng mga biktima.
Wasak na wasak ang sektor ng agrikultura sa Batangas kung saan pumalo sa P3.06 bilyon ang kabuuang pinsala. Sa halip na tulungan ang mamamayan na isalba ang kanilang kabuhayan, tahasang pinagbabawalan ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda na isalba ang kakarampot ng natitira nilang ari-arian at mga hayop. Sa halip, mas ipinauuna pa ni Duterte ang interes ng mga dayuhang negosyante at burgesya kumprador. Ibinukas niya ang Tagaytay City upang mag-opereyt ang mga negosyo doon at pagbigyan ang mga turistang gustong manood ng pagsabog ng bulkan.
Sa harap ng kainutilan at kapabayaan ng gubyernong Duterte, nananawagan kami sa mamamayan na magkaisa upang makamit ang kanilang mga karapatan at pangangailangan. Magkapit-bisig silang kalampagin ang gubyernong Duterte para ibigay ang kanilang mga batayang pangangailangan at hinihinging suporta sa muling pagbangon.
Samantala, sa mga eryang saklaw ng gubyernong bayan, patuloy ang pagmomobilisa at pagbibigay tulong at serbisyo ng mga kaalyadong organisasyon ng NDFP sa ilalim ng programang relief and rehabilitation. Maaasahan din ng mamamayan ang NPA sa pagbibigay ng mga serbisyong medikal at psycho-social sa mga nangangailangan.
Ang pagbangon ng mamamayan sa mga sakuna at kalamidad ay magmumula sa sama-samang pagsisikap ng bayan. Hindi ito kayang isakatuparan sa ilalim ng malakolonyal at malapyudal na lipunan, kung saan pinagsasamantalahan ng mga naghaharing-uri ang kalagayan ng mga biktima ng mga sakuna. Kailangan ang tuluy-tuloy na pagkilos ng mamamayan para ibagsak ang rehimeng US-Duterte at maitayo ang tunay na gubyernong maglilingkod sa kanilang interes.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/sa-mag-iisang-buwang-pag-aalburuto-ng-bulkang-taal-gubyernong-duterte-pabaya-sa-mga-biktima/
Inutil ang gubyernong Duterte sa pagbibigay ng serbisyong sosyal at tulong sa mga biktima ng pagsabog ng bulkang Taal. Hindi handa ang reaksyunaryong gubyerno sa pagsaklolo sa mamamayang biktima at apektado ng sakuna sa kabila ng abiso ng PhilVolcs walong buwan bago ang insidente. Lantaran ang pagpapabaya ng rehimen sa mga Batangueño at palpak ang mga programa nito para ipagkaloob ang kanilang mga pangangailangan.
Kulang na kulang ang inilalaang serbisyong sosyal at pondo ng rehimen para sa tinatayang aabot sa 300,000 na apektado ng sakuna. Nagmula ang kalakhan ng mga biktima sa Batangas, at ang iba pa’y mula sa ilang bayan ng Cavite, Laguna, Quezon at Mindoro na abot ng buga ng abo ng bulkan.
Sa unang linggo ng sakuna, sa Batangas pa lamang, aabot ng P17.2 milyon ang pondong inilaan ng gubyernong Duterte para sa 16,000 pamilya 0 70,000 indibidwal na nasa 300 evacuation centers. Katumbas ito ng P152 kada pamilya o P35 bawat indibidwal sa loob ng 7 araw. Labas pa rito ang may 6,000 pamilya na wala sa mga evacuation centers. Dumami pa ito sa pagtagal ng pagsabog ng bulkan.
Walang ginawang paghahanda ang rehimen. Ni hindi naglunsad ng drills ang lokal na ahensya para sa nakaambang sakuna. Nagtuturuan ang mga ahensya sa kakulangan ng paghahanda at abiso sa mamamayan. Kulang na kulang ang mga evacuation centers at ngayon pa lamang pinag-uusapan sa kongreso ang pagpapagawa ng panibago. Hindi rin naihanda ng rehimen ang mga N-95 face mask na kinakailangan ng mamamayan para hindi malanghap ang nakakalasong usok ng bulkan. Ginawang katatawanan na lamang ng gubyernong Duterte ang kakulangan nito kung saan ipinanawagan nilang gumamit na lamang ang mga apektado ng mga improvised face mask tulad ng bimpo, panty at bra.
Samantala, sa harap ng dinaranas na paghihirap ng mamamayan sa sakuna, ginamit pang oportunidad ng mga lokal at tradisyunal na pulitiko ang sakuna para magpakitang-gilas sa susunod na eleksyon. Kanya-kanya sila sa paghahambog sa mga nagawang ambag sa mamamayan gayong ga-mumo lamang ang tulong na ibinibigay nila. Sa kabilang banda, ni hindi bumisita si Duterte sa kalagayan ng mga biktima, bagkus, ipinaubaya na lamang sa mga lokal na yunit ng gubyerno para makaiwas sa sisi. Hindi man lang magawa ni Duterte na personal na makiramay sa mga biktima
Kulang na kulang ang pondo para sa Calamity Fund ng Batangas. Inamin ito mismo ni Gov. Mandanas. Aabot lamang ng P50 bilyon ang pinangako ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno, gayong P200 bilyon ang kailangan para sa sapat na suporta sa pangangailangan ng mga biktima.
Wasak na wasak ang sektor ng agrikultura sa Batangas kung saan pumalo sa P3.06 bilyon ang kabuuang pinsala. Sa halip na tulungan ang mamamayan na isalba ang kanilang kabuhayan, tahasang pinagbabawalan ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda na isalba ang kakarampot ng natitira nilang ari-arian at mga hayop. Sa halip, mas ipinauuna pa ni Duterte ang interes ng mga dayuhang negosyante at burgesya kumprador. Ibinukas niya ang Tagaytay City upang mag-opereyt ang mga negosyo doon at pagbigyan ang mga turistang gustong manood ng pagsabog ng bulkan.
Sa harap ng kainutilan at kapabayaan ng gubyernong Duterte, nananawagan kami sa mamamayan na magkaisa upang makamit ang kanilang mga karapatan at pangangailangan. Magkapit-bisig silang kalampagin ang gubyernong Duterte para ibigay ang kanilang mga batayang pangangailangan at hinihinging suporta sa muling pagbangon.
Samantala, sa mga eryang saklaw ng gubyernong bayan, patuloy ang pagmomobilisa at pagbibigay tulong at serbisyo ng mga kaalyadong organisasyon ng NDFP sa ilalim ng programang relief and rehabilitation. Maaasahan din ng mamamayan ang NPA sa pagbibigay ng mga serbisyong medikal at psycho-social sa mga nangangailangan.
Ang pagbangon ng mamamayan sa mga sakuna at kalamidad ay magmumula sa sama-samang pagsisikap ng bayan. Hindi ito kayang isakatuparan sa ilalim ng malakolonyal at malapyudal na lipunan, kung saan pinagsasamantalahan ng mga naghaharing-uri ang kalagayan ng mga biktima ng mga sakuna. Kailangan ang tuluy-tuloy na pagkilos ng mamamayan para ibagsak ang rehimeng US-Duterte at maitayo ang tunay na gubyernong maglilingkod sa kanilang interes.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/sa-mag-iisang-buwang-pag-aalburuto-ng-bulkang-taal-gubyernong-duterte-pabaya-sa-mga-biktima/
CPP/NPA-Mindoro: Pagsalbeyds sa sibilyan at pekeng labanan sa Bulalacao, kinukundina ng NPA Mindoro
NPA-Mindoro propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Pagsalbeyds sa sibilyan at pekeng labanan sa Bulalacao, kinukundina ng NPA Mindoro
MADAAY GASIC
NPA-MINDORO
LUCIO DE GUZMAN COMMAND
NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Pinabubulaanan ng LdGC-NPA-Mindoro ang ipinakalat na fake news ng 4th IBPA, 203rd Brigade na nagkaroon ng engkwentro sa pagitan ng yunit ng NPA-Mindoro at tropa ng 4th IBPA sa Brgy. Cambunang noong Enero 26, at ang diumano’y pagkakapatay rito ng isang kadre ng NPA na si “Ka Sander”.
Walang presensya ng yunit ng NPA sa Cambunang, Bulalacao ng araw at oras na iyon. Ang tinuturong namatay na kadre ng NPA na si Ka Sander ay isang sibilyan na si JR Mercado na hinuli, tinortyur at sinalbeyds ng 4th IBPA.
Kabaligtaran sa pahayag ni Lt.Colonel Connie Salas ng Oriental Mindoro-Provincial Police Office, hindi namatay si JR Mercado sa isang engkwentrong labanan bagkus ay hinuli siya ng mga nag-ooperasyong 4th IB sa pamumuno ni Captain Ruben L. Gadut. Ayon sa salaysay ng mga saksi, matapos siyang hulihin, tinortyur siya hanggang sa sinalbeyds. Hindi pa nasapatan, ibinaon si JR Mercado nang walang kabaong sa libingang hukay lang ng backhoe.
Nananawagan ang LdGC-NPA-Mindoro na dapat mabigyan ng katarungan ang sinapit ni JR Mercado at dapat na mapanagot ang mga opisyal at pwersa ng 203rd Brigade, 4th IBPA at PNP-MIMAROPA na nagsagawa at nagkutsabahan sa nasabing krimen.
Ganito din ang ginawa ng mga pwersa ng 76th IBPA, 203rd Brigade at PNP-MIMAROPA kay Mark Ederson Valencia delos Santos. Si Mark Ederson ay walang awang pinaslang ng pwersa 76th IB noong Enero 31 sa barangay Happy Valley, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro.
Dahil bigo ang 203rd Brigade sa mga inilunsad nitong atake laban sa LdGC-NPA-Mindoro nitong Enero, ibinabaling nito ang labis na galit sa mamamayan. Labis-labis na pagpapapahirap hanggang sa mamatay ang dinanas ng mga biktima sa kamay ng malulupit na pwersa ng AFP-PNP. Malinaw ito na pagpapakita ng kanilang desperasyon at pagiging berdugo.
Mabibigo ang AFP-PNP at ang rehimeng Duterte kung iniisip niyang sa pamamagitan ng pamamaslang at pananakot sa mamamayan ay mapapatigil ang rebolusyonaryong paglaban. Kabaliktaran, lalong mamumulat ang mamamayan sa pangangailangan ng armadong pakikibaka at sa kahalagahan ng NPA sa buhay nila. Lalong dadami ang sasampa sa NPA at hahawak ng armas. Titiyakin ng LdGC-NPA-Mindoro na mabigyan ng katarungan ang mga biktima at kanilang pamilya at mapatawan ng rebolusyonaryong hustisya ang mga salaring pasistang pwersa.
Panghuli, patuloy na lalakas at magpapalakas ang LdGC-NPA-Mindoro at magpupunyagi ito upang biguin ang marahas na gyera na inilulunsad ng pasistang Rehimeng US-Duterte laban rebolusyunaryong kilusan at mamamayang Mindoreño”.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/pagsalbeyds-sa-sibilyan-at-pekeng-labanan-sa-bulalacao-kinukundina-ng-npa-mindoro/
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Pinabubulaanan ng LdGC-NPA-Mindoro ang ipinakalat na fake news ng 4th IBPA, 203rd Brigade na nagkaroon ng engkwentro sa pagitan ng yunit ng NPA-Mindoro at tropa ng 4th IBPA sa Brgy. Cambunang noong Enero 26, at ang diumano’y pagkakapatay rito ng isang kadre ng NPA na si “Ka Sander”.
Walang presensya ng yunit ng NPA sa Cambunang, Bulalacao ng araw at oras na iyon. Ang tinuturong namatay na kadre ng NPA na si Ka Sander ay isang sibilyan na si JR Mercado na hinuli, tinortyur at sinalbeyds ng 4th IBPA.
Kabaligtaran sa pahayag ni Lt.Colonel Connie Salas ng Oriental Mindoro-Provincial Police Office, hindi namatay si JR Mercado sa isang engkwentrong labanan bagkus ay hinuli siya ng mga nag-ooperasyong 4th IB sa pamumuno ni Captain Ruben L. Gadut. Ayon sa salaysay ng mga saksi, matapos siyang hulihin, tinortyur siya hanggang sa sinalbeyds. Hindi pa nasapatan, ibinaon si JR Mercado nang walang kabaong sa libingang hukay lang ng backhoe.
Nananawagan ang LdGC-NPA-Mindoro na dapat mabigyan ng katarungan ang sinapit ni JR Mercado at dapat na mapanagot ang mga opisyal at pwersa ng 203rd Brigade, 4th IBPA at PNP-MIMAROPA na nagsagawa at nagkutsabahan sa nasabing krimen.
Ganito din ang ginawa ng mga pwersa ng 76th IBPA, 203rd Brigade at PNP-MIMAROPA kay Mark Ederson Valencia delos Santos. Si Mark Ederson ay walang awang pinaslang ng pwersa 76th IB noong Enero 31 sa barangay Happy Valley, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro.
Dahil bigo ang 203rd Brigade sa mga inilunsad nitong atake laban sa LdGC-NPA-Mindoro nitong Enero, ibinabaling nito ang labis na galit sa mamamayan. Labis-labis na pagpapapahirap hanggang sa mamatay ang dinanas ng mga biktima sa kamay ng malulupit na pwersa ng AFP-PNP. Malinaw ito na pagpapakita ng kanilang desperasyon at pagiging berdugo.
Mabibigo ang AFP-PNP at ang rehimeng Duterte kung iniisip niyang sa pamamagitan ng pamamaslang at pananakot sa mamamayan ay mapapatigil ang rebolusyonaryong paglaban. Kabaliktaran, lalong mamumulat ang mamamayan sa pangangailangan ng armadong pakikibaka at sa kahalagahan ng NPA sa buhay nila. Lalong dadami ang sasampa sa NPA at hahawak ng armas. Titiyakin ng LdGC-NPA-Mindoro na mabigyan ng katarungan ang mga biktima at kanilang pamilya at mapatawan ng rebolusyonaryong hustisya ang mga salaring pasistang pwersa.
Panghuli, patuloy na lalakas at magpapalakas ang LdGC-NPA-Mindoro at magpupunyagi ito upang biguin ang marahas na gyera na inilulunsad ng pasistang Rehimeng US-Duterte laban rebolusyunaryong kilusan at mamamayang Mindoreño”.###
https://cpp.ph/statement/pagsalbeyds-sa-sibilyan-at-pekeng-labanan-sa-bulalacao-kinukundina-ng-npa-mindoro/
CPP/NPA-East Camarines Sur: Harasment ng kapulisan sa mga sibilyan sa Gubat, Lagonoy
NPA-East Camarines Sur propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Feb 11, 2020): Harasment ng kapulisan sa mga sibilyan sa Gubat, Lagonoy
BALDOMERO ARCANGHEL
NPA-EAST CAMARINES SUR
TOMAS PILAPIL COMMAND
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Lubos na kinukondena ng Tomas Pilapil Command-BHB East Camarines Sur ang isinagawang paghalughog ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng 2nd Platun 505 th Provincial Mobile Force, Regional Mobile Force at PNP- Lagonoy ng ilang kabahayan sa Barangay Gubat, Lagonoy nitong Enero 30, 2020.
Ayon sa mga biktima na sina Emerlita Velasco, Domingo Velasco, Hermina Saor, Manases Casabuena at pamilya ni Roger San Juan sapilitang hinalughog ng mga pulis ang kanilang bahay nang walang karampatang mandamyento. Si Roger San Juan ay sinampahan ng gawa-gawang kasong illegal possession of expossives na nakahain sa sala ni Judge Angela Acompañado Arroyo. Naninindigan ang pamilya ni Roger San Juan na walang granada sa ka nilang bahay at itinanim lamang ng mga operatiba ang granada.
Ang sapilitang pag halughog at mga gawa-gawang kaso laban sa mga pinaghihinalaang sumusuporta sa rebolusyunaryong kilusan at miyembro ng mga progresibong organisasyon ay bahagi ng paghahasik ng takot at karahasan sa mga sibilyan sa ilalim ng Memorandum Order 32 ni Duterte.
Ang pagtanim ng mga ebidensya ay kalakaran na ng mga pulis at militar sa kanilang mga operasyon para gawing lehitimo ang kanilang mga accomplishment at magpasasa sa mga pabuya kahit pa sa kapinsalaan ng mga sibilyan at lantarang paglabag sa karapatang-tao.
Nananawagan ang Bagong Hukbong Bayan Tomas Pilapil Command sa mga sibilyan at mga tagapagtaguyod ng karapatang tao na maging mapagmatyag sa mga pakana at kontra mamamayang operasyon ng mga pwera ng PNP at Philippine Army. Maging mapanuri sa mga gawa-gawang kaso ng mga ahente ng estado laban sa mga sibilyan. Kailangan magkaisa ang mamamayan na ilantad at labanan ang mapanlinlang at marahas na operasyon ng mga pulis at militar, tutulan at labanan ang Memorandum Order 32 at Executive Order 70 at lahat ng anti-mamamayang pakana ni Duterte.
Lubos na kinukondena ng Tomas Pilapil Command-BHB East Camarines Sur ang isinagawang paghalughog ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng 2nd Platun 505 th Provincial Mobile Force, Regional Mobile Force at PNP- Lagonoy ng ilang kabahayan sa Barangay Gubat, Lagonoy nitong Enero 30, 2020.
Ayon sa mga biktima na sina Emerlita Velasco, Domingo Velasco, Hermina Saor, Manases Casabuena at pamilya ni Roger San Juan sapilitang hinalughog ng mga pulis ang kanilang bahay nang walang karampatang mandamyento. Si Roger San Juan ay sinampahan ng gawa-gawang kasong illegal possession of expossives na nakahain sa sala ni Judge Angela Acompañado Arroyo. Naninindigan ang pamilya ni Roger San Juan na walang granada sa ka nilang bahay at itinanim lamang ng mga operatiba ang granada.
Ang sapilitang pag halughog at mga gawa-gawang kaso laban sa mga pinaghihinalaang sumusuporta sa rebolusyunaryong kilusan at miyembro ng mga progresibong organisasyon ay bahagi ng paghahasik ng takot at karahasan sa mga sibilyan sa ilalim ng Memorandum Order 32 ni Duterte.
Ang pagtanim ng mga ebidensya ay kalakaran na ng mga pulis at militar sa kanilang mga operasyon para gawing lehitimo ang kanilang mga accomplishment at magpasasa sa mga pabuya kahit pa sa kapinsalaan ng mga sibilyan at lantarang paglabag sa karapatang-tao.
Nananawagan ang Bagong Hukbong Bayan Tomas Pilapil Command sa mga sibilyan at mga tagapagtaguyod ng karapatang tao na maging mapagmatyag sa mga pakana at kontra mamamayang operasyon ng mga pwera ng PNP at Philippine Army. Maging mapanuri sa mga gawa-gawang kaso ng mga ahente ng estado laban sa mga sibilyan. Kailangan magkaisa ang mamamayan na ilantad at labanan ang mapanlinlang at marahas na operasyon ng mga pulis at militar, tutulan at labanan ang Memorandum Order 32 at Executive Order 70 at lahat ng anti-mamamayang pakana ni Duterte.
Soldiers discover BIFF guns, bullets in Maguindanao
From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 12, 2020): Soldiers discover BIFF guns, bullets in Maguindanao (By Edwin Fernandez)
RECOVERED. The firearms seized by military troopers while in pursuit of long-wanted Sukarno Buka, a sub-leader of the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Gen. SK Pendatun, Maguindanao on Tuesday (Feb. 11, 2020). Military troops are still in pursuit of Buka and his group who managed to escape before the raid at their safe house. (Photo courtesy of 6ID)
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Soldiers stumbled upon a house with assorted high-powered firearms while pursuing a wanted person in Gen. SK Pendatun, Maguindanao on Tuesday.
Elements of the 40th Infantry Battalion were serving a search warrant for attempted murder charges against a certain Sukarno Buka, alias “Boba”, in Barangay Midconding at 5 a.m. when gunmen believed to be members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) fired at them.
Maj. Gen. Diosdado Carreon, 6th Infantry Division commander, said Buka is a sub-commander of the BIFF terror group.
“As the troops were approaching a safe house, they were fired at by the gunmen, triggering a five-minute exchange of gunfire,” Carreon said, adding that Buka and his men managed to escape.
Recovered inside Buka’s safe house were one KG9 rifle, an M79 grenade launcher, a homemade shotgun, a caliber .40 pistol, an M14 rifle, one riflescope, a gas cylinder of an M60 machine gun, assorted magazines, and ammunition.
The arrest warrant against Buka was issued by Judge Melanio M. Guerrero of Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in Tacurong City on May 4, 2017.
Carreon, concurrent head of Joint Task Force Central, vowed to "relentlessly pursue" wanted persons and lawless elements in its area of assignment. He also commended the troops for the recovery of high-powered guns and ammunition.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1093600
RECOVERED. The firearms seized by military troopers while in pursuit of long-wanted Sukarno Buka, a sub-leader of the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Gen. SK Pendatun, Maguindanao on Tuesday (Feb. 11, 2020). Military troops are still in pursuit of Buka and his group who managed to escape before the raid at their safe house. (Photo courtesy of 6ID)
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Soldiers stumbled upon a house with assorted high-powered firearms while pursuing a wanted person in Gen. SK Pendatun, Maguindanao on Tuesday.
Elements of the 40th Infantry Battalion were serving a search warrant for attempted murder charges against a certain Sukarno Buka, alias “Boba”, in Barangay Midconding at 5 a.m. when gunmen believed to be members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) fired at them.
Maj. Gen. Diosdado Carreon, 6th Infantry Division commander, said Buka is a sub-commander of the BIFF terror group.
“As the troops were approaching a safe house, they were fired at by the gunmen, triggering a five-minute exchange of gunfire,” Carreon said, adding that Buka and his men managed to escape.
Recovered inside Buka’s safe house were one KG9 rifle, an M79 grenade launcher, a homemade shotgun, a caliber .40 pistol, an M14 rifle, one riflescope, a gas cylinder of an M60 machine gun, assorted magazines, and ammunition.
The arrest warrant against Buka was issued by Judge Melanio M. Guerrero of Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in Tacurong City on May 4, 2017.
Carreon, concurrent head of Joint Task Force Central, vowed to "relentlessly pursue" wanted persons and lawless elements in its area of assignment. He also commended the troops for the recovery of high-powered guns and ammunition.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1093600
As fate of VFA hangs, PH and US forces take to the skies for exercise
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Feb 11, 2020): As fate of VFA hangs, PH and US forces take to the skies for exercise (By Frances Mangosing)
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
FLORIDABLANCA, Pampanga — As the future of the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States hangs, Philippine and American forces have been discreetly training at a military base northwest of Manila, striving to keep their alliance afloat despite threats to sink it.
On Friday (Feb. 7), Inquirer witnessed Air Force jets buzz the skies overhead in this small rural town — their engines’ roar an all-too-familiar sound to residents living near Cesar Basa Air Base, home of the Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) mainstay fighters.
The sight and sound of jets ripping the skies may be now ordinary here that most residents outside their home are no longer drawn to look up the sky, but unaware of the display of American air power and the decades of security alliance this has come to represent.
A distinct louder-than-usual rumble betrays its source—the US Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets, flying in pairs with FA-50 lead-in fighter trainers of the PAF.
Sources familiar with this training say it is part of the Bilateral Air Contingent Exchange – Philippines (BACE-P) — a week-long joint military exercise aimed at improving interoperability and boosting the air defense capabilities of the two long-time security allies.
The US Air Force was said to have flown in six of their supersonic F-16 fighter jets, known as Vipers, from the 35th Fighter Wing in Misawa Air Base, Japan.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed that joint training between the Philippine and US air forces was ongoing.
“The first exercise was held in Fernando Air Base in Lipa last week between the Philippine Air Force and US Air Force. They are also using the Basa Air Base in Pampanga,” he told Inquirer over the weekend.
The bilateral engagement in Lipa, Batangas focused on humanitarian assistance and disaster response, a training that seemed timely following the eruption of Taal Volcano and crucial because of the lessons it would impart for disaster response.
A small contingent of Philippine Army soldiers is also taking part in a three-week exercise with their American counterparts in Palawan, the province at the doorstep of territorial conflict between China and the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.
Balance Piston 20-1, which runs from Jan. 26 to Feb 23, aims to enhance the counterterrorism capabilities of the Philippine Army and strengthen the cooperation of both countries.
The joint military drills are being conducted amid the possible termination of the VFA, an accord that covers the conduct of US troops who take part in military exercises in the Philippines, which included the likes of BACE-P and Balance Piston.
President Rodrigo Duterte has reportedly instructed the government to send the notice of termination of the VFA to the US, but Lorenzana said he has yet to see it in black and white form.
In case a notice was sent to the US, it will take effect after 180 days, which means all the scheduled activities of the two countries within that period will continue, Lorenzana said.
“All the set engagements for this year until June will go on,” he said.
There are 319 joint military exercises between the Philippines and US lined up for 2020, an increase from 281 in 2019. These included the Balikatan, the biggest military exercise between the two countries involving thousands of troops and the participation of Australian and Japanese forces, slated this summer.
All these are seen to enhance the joint defense cooperation of the two countries in preparation for future challenges. These engagements largely benefit the Philippines, as it remains to have one of the weakest militaries in the region.
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
“While the Philippines has prerogative to terminate the VFA anytime, the continuance of the agreement is deemed to be more beneficial to the Philippines, compared to any benefits were it to be terminated,” Locsin told senators.
The VFA allows the two countries to accomplish its obligations under the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), which mandates the two allies to support each other in case of an armed attack.
“For the MDT, the VFA is the substance that makes it real and makes it work…Without them, the MDT is just a piece of paper,” Locsin said.
The country’s top diplomat also acknowledged that regular American presence serves as a deterrent to China from taking more aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea.
“The MDT is a deterrent to any attack from any power. The termination of the VFA will very likely dilute the US commitment to the MDT,” he said.
The Philippines, he pointed out, stands to lose significant defense assistance programs if the VFA was scrapped.
For 2020 to 2021, the US planned to spend over $200 million on aircraft, training, equipment and construction for the Philippine military, and more than $45 million in foreign military financing (FMF).
“Without the VFA, the US departments of State and Defense will be hard put to get funds from the US Congress for FMF and other defense assistance programs to the Philippines,” Locsin said.
READ: Tinkering with VFA exposes PH military need to build strength
The US may also no longer see the use for the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which allows them to set up military facilities and preposition assets in the country.
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
“The US may see no need to continue EDCA without the VFA because its military capability depends on human operators whose behavior needs to be regulated,” Locsin said.
“There would essentially be no practical use for an EDCA in the absence of the VFA, which is the legal framework for the presence of US military personnel in military exercises and actual military responses under the MDT,” he said.
Duterte’s prerogative
Duterte had threatened to throw out the military pact on Jan. 23 in retaliation for the US revocation of the visa of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, his close political ally and former police chief.
The US did not cite a reason for the visa cancellation but it was likely because of Dela Rosa’s role in Duterte’s bloody campaign against drugs.
But even as officials have listed all the benefits of the VFA to national security, Duterte, who claims to be a big supporter of the armed forces, appeared bent on setting aside what his security officials reported. His men, and ultimately the entire nation, would have to bear the consequences of his choice.
“That is his prerogative as president. We laid out the facts, he decides,” Lorenzana said.
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/185120/as-fate-of-vfa-hangs-ph-and-us-forces-take-to-the-skies-for-exercise
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
FLORIDABLANCA, Pampanga — As the future of the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States hangs, Philippine and American forces have been discreetly training at a military base northwest of Manila, striving to keep their alliance afloat despite threats to sink it.
On Friday (Feb. 7), Inquirer witnessed Air Force jets buzz the skies overhead in this small rural town — their engines’ roar an all-too-familiar sound to residents living near Cesar Basa Air Base, home of the Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) mainstay fighters.
The sight and sound of jets ripping the skies may be now ordinary here that most residents outside their home are no longer drawn to look up the sky, but unaware of the display of American air power and the decades of security alliance this has come to represent.
A distinct louder-than-usual rumble betrays its source—the US Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets, flying in pairs with FA-50 lead-in fighter trainers of the PAF.
Sources familiar with this training say it is part of the Bilateral Air Contingent Exchange – Philippines (BACE-P) — a week-long joint military exercise aimed at improving interoperability and boosting the air defense capabilities of the two long-time security allies.
The US Air Force was said to have flown in six of their supersonic F-16 fighter jets, known as Vipers, from the 35th Fighter Wing in Misawa Air Base, Japan.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed that joint training between the Philippine and US air forces was ongoing.
“The first exercise was held in Fernando Air Base in Lipa last week between the Philippine Air Force and US Air Force. They are also using the Basa Air Base in Pampanga,” he told Inquirer over the weekend.
The bilateral engagement in Lipa, Batangas focused on humanitarian assistance and disaster response, a training that seemed timely following the eruption of Taal Volcano and crucial because of the lessons it would impart for disaster response.
A small contingent of Philippine Army soldiers is also taking part in a three-week exercise with their American counterparts in Palawan, the province at the doorstep of territorial conflict between China and the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.
Balance Piston 20-1, which runs from Jan. 26 to Feb 23, aims to enhance the counterterrorism capabilities of the Philippine Army and strengthen the cooperation of both countries.
The joint military drills are being conducted amid the possible termination of the VFA, an accord that covers the conduct of US troops who take part in military exercises in the Philippines, which included the likes of BACE-P and Balance Piston.
President Rodrigo Duterte has reportedly instructed the government to send the notice of termination of the VFA to the US, but Lorenzana said he has yet to see it in black and white form.
In case a notice was sent to the US, it will take effect after 180 days, which means all the scheduled activities of the two countries within that period will continue, Lorenzana said.
“All the set engagements for this year until June will go on,” he said.
There are 319 joint military exercises between the Philippines and US lined up for 2020, an increase from 281 in 2019. These included the Balikatan, the biggest military exercise between the two countries involving thousands of troops and the participation of Australian and Japanese forces, slated this summer.
All these are seen to enhance the joint defense cooperation of the two countries in preparation for future challenges. These engagements largely benefit the Philippines, as it remains to have one of the weakest militaries in the region.
VFA a deterrent to China
Duterte is proceeding with his threats to end the VFA despite government officials citing its benefits to national security and observers saying that the absence of a defense agreement with the United States was beneficial to China.
READ: Philippine military caught in a bind as VFA termination pushed
At a Senate hearing on Thursday (Feb. 6), foreign and security officials led by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. pushed for a “vigorous review” of the agreement, not for its outright abrogation.
Duterte is proceeding with his threats to end the VFA despite government officials citing its benefits to national security and observers saying that the absence of a defense agreement with the United States was beneficial to China.
READ: Philippine military caught in a bind as VFA termination pushed
At a Senate hearing on Thursday (Feb. 6), foreign and security officials led by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. pushed for a “vigorous review” of the agreement, not for its outright abrogation.
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
“While the Philippines has prerogative to terminate the VFA anytime, the continuance of the agreement is deemed to be more beneficial to the Philippines, compared to any benefits were it to be terminated,” Locsin told senators.
The VFA allows the two countries to accomplish its obligations under the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), which mandates the two allies to support each other in case of an armed attack.
“For the MDT, the VFA is the substance that makes it real and makes it work…Without them, the MDT is just a piece of paper,” Locsin said.
The country’s top diplomat also acknowledged that regular American presence serves as a deterrent to China from taking more aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea.
“The MDT is a deterrent to any attack from any power. The termination of the VFA will very likely dilute the US commitment to the MDT,” he said.
The Philippines, he pointed out, stands to lose significant defense assistance programs if the VFA was scrapped.
For 2020 to 2021, the US planned to spend over $200 million on aircraft, training, equipment and construction for the Philippine military, and more than $45 million in foreign military financing (FMF).
“Without the VFA, the US departments of State and Defense will be hard put to get funds from the US Congress for FMF and other defense assistance programs to the Philippines,” Locsin said.
READ: Tinkering with VFA exposes PH military need to build strength
The US may also no longer see the use for the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which allows them to set up military facilities and preposition assets in the country.
Philippine and US fighter jets fly above a community near Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Feb. 7, 2020 as part of a joint exercise. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ Lyn Rillon
“The US may see no need to continue EDCA without the VFA because its military capability depends on human operators whose behavior needs to be regulated,” Locsin said.
“There would essentially be no practical use for an EDCA in the absence of the VFA, which is the legal framework for the presence of US military personnel in military exercises and actual military responses under the MDT,” he said.
Duterte’s prerogative
Duterte had threatened to throw out the military pact on Jan. 23 in retaliation for the US revocation of the visa of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, his close political ally and former police chief.
The US did not cite a reason for the visa cancellation but it was likely because of Dela Rosa’s role in Duterte’s bloody campaign against drugs.
But even as officials have listed all the benefits of the VFA to national security, Duterte, who claims to be a big supporter of the armed forces, appeared bent on setting aside what his security officials reported. His men, and ultimately the entire nation, would have to bear the consequences of his choice.
“That is his prerogative as president. We laid out the facts, he decides,” Lorenzana said.
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/185120/as-fate-of-vfa-hangs-ph-and-us-forces-take-to-the-skies-for-exercise
Kalinaw News: New EASTMINCOM Chief Visits 402nd Brigade
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): New EASTMINCOM Chief Visits 402nd Brigade (By Eastern Mindanao Command)
Bancasi, Butuan City – The newly designated Commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom/EMC), AFP visited the 402nd Infantry (Stingers) Brigade at Brgy Bancasi, Butuan City yesterday, February 8, 2020.
Major General Jose Calingasan Faustino Jr’s visit to the Stingers Brigade was his first field visit to a Brigade in the EMC AOR since his assumption as the 12th Commander of the EastMinCom last January 25, 2020.
Prior to his designation as the new EastMinCom Chief, MGen Faustino was the Commander of the 10th Infantry (Agila) Division where he led various operations which resulted in the dismantling of different New People’s Army (NPA) units in Regions 11 and 12. He also served as the former head of the 11th Intelligence Service Unit based in Davao City as well as led the 35th Infantry Battalion and 501st Infantry Brigade.
During his field visit yesterday, he was welcomed by the Officers, Men and Women of the 402nd Brigade with a Military Arrival Honors led by 402nd Brigade Commander, Brigadier General L Licudine together with Police Brigadier General Joselito S Esquivel Jr, Regional Director of the Police Regional Office 13 and the Commanding Officers of the OPCON Battalions and Commander’s from Tenant and Attached units.
MGen Faustino lauded the commendable accomplishments of the 402nd Brigade during the Campaign Updates provided by the unit from January – December 2019 where, a total of ninety – eight (98) combat operations were conducted resulting to eighty (80) encounters against the CPP-NPA Terrorist (CNT) in Guerilla Bases and Engagement Areas.
Part of the highlight during the visit was the traditional Signing of Guest Book and viewing of some of the Captured, Confiscated, Surrendered and Recovered (CCSR) Firearms of the Brigade during the successful combat operations that neutralized CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) in the region.
Likewise, a ceremonial tree planting was also done by MGen Faustino along with PBGen Esquivel Jr with their names imprinted on the tree guard, followed by a Talk to Troops.
In his message during the Talk, MGen Faustino stressed the importance of properly performing every task and emphasized the participation of the AFP units in the TF-ELCAC under the EO70 as the solution to end the more than five (5) decades of the insurgency problem. “We have a positive outlook of the security situation. We have gained significant headways but the challenge is how we can sustain our efforts. Hence, we need to perform our tasks 100 percent and contribute to our campaign in our own little ways. Our job is to protect the people, secure the land”.
Meanwhile, in his statement, BGen Licudine said that the visit of the top commander of the whole Eastern Mindanao Command is a big boost to the morale of the troops particularly in relentlessly combating the insurgency problem in Caraga, “We will perform in accordance with the guidance of the Commander of the EMC particularly in our participation to the Task Force ELCAC in sustaining the peace and security in Caraga region.”
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https://www.kalinawnews.com/new-eastmincom-chief-visits-402nd-brigade/
Bancasi, Butuan City – The newly designated Commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom/EMC), AFP visited the 402nd Infantry (Stingers) Brigade at Brgy Bancasi, Butuan City yesterday, February 8, 2020.
Major General Jose Calingasan Faustino Jr’s visit to the Stingers Brigade was his first field visit to a Brigade in the EMC AOR since his assumption as the 12th Commander of the EastMinCom last January 25, 2020.
Prior to his designation as the new EastMinCom Chief, MGen Faustino was the Commander of the 10th Infantry (Agila) Division where he led various operations which resulted in the dismantling of different New People’s Army (NPA) units in Regions 11 and 12. He also served as the former head of the 11th Intelligence Service Unit based in Davao City as well as led the 35th Infantry Battalion and 501st Infantry Brigade.
During his field visit yesterday, he was welcomed by the Officers, Men and Women of the 402nd Brigade with a Military Arrival Honors led by 402nd Brigade Commander, Brigadier General L Licudine together with Police Brigadier General Joselito S Esquivel Jr, Regional Director of the Police Regional Office 13 and the Commanding Officers of the OPCON Battalions and Commander’s from Tenant and Attached units.
MGen Faustino lauded the commendable accomplishments of the 402nd Brigade during the Campaign Updates provided by the unit from January – December 2019 where, a total of ninety – eight (98) combat operations were conducted resulting to eighty (80) encounters against the CPP-NPA Terrorist (CNT) in Guerilla Bases and Engagement Areas.
Part of the highlight during the visit was the traditional Signing of Guest Book and viewing of some of the Captured, Confiscated, Surrendered and Recovered (CCSR) Firearms of the Brigade during the successful combat operations that neutralized CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) in the region.
Likewise, a ceremonial tree planting was also done by MGen Faustino along with PBGen Esquivel Jr with their names imprinted on the tree guard, followed by a Talk to Troops.
In his message during the Talk, MGen Faustino stressed the importance of properly performing every task and emphasized the participation of the AFP units in the TF-ELCAC under the EO70 as the solution to end the more than five (5) decades of the insurgency problem. “We have a positive outlook of the security situation. We have gained significant headways but the challenge is how we can sustain our efforts. Hence, we need to perform our tasks 100 percent and contribute to our campaign in our own little ways. Our job is to protect the people, secure the land”.
Meanwhile, in his statement, BGen Licudine said that the visit of the top commander of the whole Eastern Mindanao Command is a big boost to the morale of the troops particularly in relentlessly combating the insurgency problem in Caraga, “We will perform in accordance with the guidance of the Commander of the EMC particularly in our participation to the Task Force ELCAC in sustaining the peace and security in Caraga region.”
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https://www.kalinawnews.com/new-eastmincom-chief-visits-402nd-brigade/
Kalinaw News: Communist members abandon NPA group to start new life
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): Communist members abandon NPA group to start new life (By 603 Persuader Brigade)
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao –Sixteen members of the New People’s Army (Army) have surrendered to the military yesterday morning (February 6) in a ceremony at Municipal Hall of Palimbang in Sultan Kudarat.
The former rebels were convinced to surrender through the efforts of the 37th Infantry Battalion under 603rd Infantry Brigade as part of the unit’s intensified counter-insurgency program in partnership with the concerned local government unit.
During the program hosted by the local government of Palimbang, the rebels laid down their 6 firearms, namely: one caliber 7.62mm rifle, one caliber .30 Garand M1 rifle, two caliber .45 pistol, one 9mm pistol and one caliber .38 revolver.
The former rebels were members of Sub-Regional Command-Daguma of Far South Mindanao Region (FSMR).
According to Palimbang Mayor Hon Joenime Kapina, the surrender of the NPA rebels will contribute to the peace efforts of their municipality.
He encouraged the former rebels to convince their former comrades to return to the government fold to live peacefully and enjoy the livelihood benefits provided by the local government of Palimbang.
The firearms were received by Mayor Kapina, 603rd Deputy Brigade Commander Col. Jovencio F. Gonzales, and 37th Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Roberto C. Go.
One of the surrenderers said that they experienced hardships in the mountains trying to evade the military troops. They also said that they are willing to cooperate with the government and avail of the programs former rebels and become part of the development plans of the LGU.
Joint Task Force Central Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon congratulated 37th IB for their efforts that led to the latest surrender of NPA members.
The Commander also vowed that the JTFC troops will ensure their safety in case their former comrades will retaliate against them.
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https://www.kalinawnews.com/communist-members-abandon-npa-group-to-start-new-life/
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao –Sixteen members of the New People’s Army (Army) have surrendered to the military yesterday morning (February 6) in a ceremony at Municipal Hall of Palimbang in Sultan Kudarat.
The former rebels were convinced to surrender through the efforts of the 37th Infantry Battalion under 603rd Infantry Brigade as part of the unit’s intensified counter-insurgency program in partnership with the concerned local government unit.
During the program hosted by the local government of Palimbang, the rebels laid down their 6 firearms, namely: one caliber 7.62mm rifle, one caliber .30 Garand M1 rifle, two caliber .45 pistol, one 9mm pistol and one caliber .38 revolver.
The former rebels were members of Sub-Regional Command-Daguma of Far South Mindanao Region (FSMR).
According to Palimbang Mayor Hon Joenime Kapina, the surrender of the NPA rebels will contribute to the peace efforts of their municipality.
He encouraged the former rebels to convince their former comrades to return to the government fold to live peacefully and enjoy the livelihood benefits provided by the local government of Palimbang.
The firearms were received by Mayor Kapina, 603rd Deputy Brigade Commander Col. Jovencio F. Gonzales, and 37th Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Roberto C. Go.
One of the surrenderers said that they experienced hardships in the mountains trying to evade the military troops. They also said that they are willing to cooperate with the government and avail of the programs former rebels and become part of the development plans of the LGU.
Joint Task Force Central Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon congratulated 37th IB for their efforts that led to the latest surrender of NPA members.
The Commander also vowed that the JTFC troops will ensure their safety in case their former comrades will retaliate against them.
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https://www.kalinawnews.com/communist-members-abandon-npa-group-to-start-new-life/
Kalinaw News: Firearms recovered while troops serve arrest warrant
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): Firearms recovered while troops serve arrest warrant (By 6th Infantry Division)
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Several firearms were recovered at General Salipada K. Pendatun (GSKP), Maguindanao early this morning (February 6) after serving warrant of arrest against an individual with outstanding warrant of arrest.
The operating troops of 40th Infantry Battalion were serving arrest warrant against a certain Sukarno Buka a.k.a. Boba who is facing a charge for attempted murder. The suspect is also a Commander of the Bangsomoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) terror group.
At around 6:00 a.m., arresting troops were about to approach the residence of alias Boba at Sitio Mamanen, Brgy. Midconding of GSKP, when a group of men fired at the government troops.
An exchange of fires ensued which lasted for about 5 minutes. Boba and the rest of the suspects managed to escape and flee to an unknown direction.
Recovered at his residence were one KG9 rifle, one M79 grenade launcher, one homemade shotgun, one caliber .40 pistol, one Butt Stock of M14 rifle, one riflescope, one gas cylinder of M60 machine gun, assorted magazines and several rounds of ammunition.
The arrest warrant was issued by Judge Melanio M. Guerrero of Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in Tacurong City last May 4, 2017.
The Commander of 6th Infantry Division and Joint Task Force Central, Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon, said that the JTFC troops will pursue those bandits involved in criminalities. He also commended the troops of 40th IB for their bravery in serving the warrant of arrest even if it means risking their lives in line of duty.
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https://www.kalinawnews.com/firearms-recovered-while-troops-serve-arrest-warrant/
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Several firearms were recovered at General Salipada K. Pendatun (GSKP), Maguindanao early this morning (February 6) after serving warrant of arrest against an individual with outstanding warrant of arrest.
The operating troops of 40th Infantry Battalion were serving arrest warrant against a certain Sukarno Buka a.k.a. Boba who is facing a charge for attempted murder. The suspect is also a Commander of the Bangsomoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) terror group.
At around 6:00 a.m., arresting troops were about to approach the residence of alias Boba at Sitio Mamanen, Brgy. Midconding of GSKP, when a group of men fired at the government troops.
An exchange of fires ensued which lasted for about 5 minutes. Boba and the rest of the suspects managed to escape and flee to an unknown direction.
Recovered at his residence were one KG9 rifle, one M79 grenade launcher, one homemade shotgun, one caliber .40 pistol, one Butt Stock of M14 rifle, one riflescope, one gas cylinder of M60 machine gun, assorted magazines and several rounds of ammunition.
The arrest warrant was issued by Judge Melanio M. Guerrero of Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in Tacurong City last May 4, 2017.
The Commander of 6th Infantry Division and Joint Task Force Central, Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon, said that the JTFC troops will pursue those bandits involved in criminalities. He also commended the troops of 40th IB for their bravery in serving the warrant of arrest even if it means risking their lives in line of duty.
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Kalinaw News: JTFC Troops neutralize Communist Terrorist members and recover war materiel
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): JTFC Troops neutralize Communist Terrorist members and recover war materiel (By 6th Infantry Division - Kampilan)
Camp Siongco, Maguindanao – Three members of the Communist NPA Terrorists (CNTs) belonging to the East Daguma Front of FSMRC under Commander Rayray were killed by troops of the 37IB of the 603rd Infantry Brigade under the Joint Task Force Central in an encounter with around 25 of its members at Sitio Sinuksok, Brgy. Bugso, Senator Ninoy Aquino town of the province of Sultan Kudarat at 8 o’clock in the evening of January 31, 2020.
The firefight lasted for 30 minutes which resulted to the death of the 3 CNT members. The rest of the terror group scampered to different directions and left behind the bodies of their slain comrades. The troops were able to recover one 7.62mm M14 rifle, one 5.56mm M16 rifle, one caliber .45 pistol, assorted magazines and ammunition, one icom handheld radio, medical kits, sacks of rice and subversive documents.
JTFC Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon commended the troops for their heroism and bravery during the clash with the communist group.
“The Joint Task Force Central and 6ID will never cease to hunt these CNTs. We will pursue them and bring them to the folds of the law and stop their oppressive actions which continuously hinder the progress that the LGUs in JTFC AO are implementing.” Maj. Gen. Carreon said.
He also encouraged the other CNT members to stop fighting the government and return to the fold of the law so they will not experience the same thing that happened to their comrades.
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Camp Siongco, Maguindanao – Three members of the Communist NPA Terrorists (CNTs) belonging to the East Daguma Front of FSMRC under Commander Rayray were killed by troops of the 37IB of the 603rd Infantry Brigade under the Joint Task Force Central in an encounter with around 25 of its members at Sitio Sinuksok, Brgy. Bugso, Senator Ninoy Aquino town of the province of Sultan Kudarat at 8 o’clock in the evening of January 31, 2020.
The firefight lasted for 30 minutes which resulted to the death of the 3 CNT members. The rest of the terror group scampered to different directions and left behind the bodies of their slain comrades. The troops were able to recover one 7.62mm M14 rifle, one 5.56mm M16 rifle, one caliber .45 pistol, assorted magazines and ammunition, one icom handheld radio, medical kits, sacks of rice and subversive documents.
JTFC Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon commended the troops for their heroism and bravery during the clash with the communist group.
“The Joint Task Force Central and 6ID will never cease to hunt these CNTs. We will pursue them and bring them to the folds of the law and stop their oppressive actions which continuously hinder the progress that the LGUs in JTFC AO are implementing.” Maj. Gen. Carreon said.
He also encouraged the other CNT members to stop fighting the government and return to the fold of the law so they will not experience the same thing that happened to their comrades.
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Kalinaw News: Soldier slain in shooting while conducting road security for Grand Kanduli
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): Soldier slain in shooting while conducting road security for Grand Kanduli (By 6th Infantry Division - Kampilan)
A government troop from 63rd Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC) was shot in Barangay Pura, Datu Blah Sinsuat (DBS) , Maguindanao this noontime (February 8, 2020).
The soldier was shot at his back while conducting road security for the town’s Grand ‘Kanduli’ activity hosted by the local government of DBS.
He was immediately brought to Datu Blah Sinsuat District Hospital of Upi but was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician
The slain soldier was identified as Cpl Jobert Saga, 33 years old, resident of Brgy Lawili, Aleosan, North Cotabato.
“I am extending my deepest condolences to the family left by our slain soldier, who died while doing his mandated task of securing the community from any threats,” said Joint Task Force Central Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon.
The troops of 6th Infantry Battalion, are currently conducting pursuit operation against the perpetrators of the crime.
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A government troop from 63rd Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC) was shot in Barangay Pura, Datu Blah Sinsuat (DBS) , Maguindanao this noontime (February 8, 2020).
The soldier was shot at his back while conducting road security for the town’s Grand ‘Kanduli’ activity hosted by the local government of DBS.
He was immediately brought to Datu Blah Sinsuat District Hospital of Upi but was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician
The slain soldier was identified as Cpl Jobert Saga, 33 years old, resident of Brgy Lawili, Aleosan, North Cotabato.
“I am extending my deepest condolences to the family left by our slain soldier, who died while doing his mandated task of securing the community from any threats,” said Joint Task Force Central Commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon.
The troops of 6th Infantry Battalion, are currently conducting pursuit operation against the perpetrators of the crime.
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Kalinaw News: Tubungan launches reintegration program to give new hope to former rebel
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): Tubungan launches reintegration program to give new hope to former rebels (By 6th Infantry Division - Kampilan)
CAMP MONTECLARO, Igtuba, Miagao, Iloilo – The local government of Tubungan in Iloilo under the leadership of Mayor Roquito Tacsagon launched a reintegration program that will give new courage and hope to the former rebels to start a new and normal life.
The Project ROKIT (Reintegration Oplan Kabalaka for deserving Individuals in Tubungan) will provide livelihood and job opportunities to the rebel returnees.
These opportunities include formal employment both local and abroad through skills training, livelihood projects and values formation.
“The LGU-Tubungan is sincere in improving the lives of the former rebels by giving them financial assistance and sustainable source of livelihood for them to support their families. With this program, we are hoping that more rebels will return to the fold of law and seek a peaceful and productive life,” Mayor Roquito Tacsagon said.
Last February 09, 2020, three former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) who surrendered to the Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Battalion (IB) on December 26, 2019, received worth PHP30,000 financial and livelihood assistance from the local government unit of Tubungan, Iloilo through Project ROKIT.
The said financial and livelihood assistance that includes Php5, 000 Cash and Php25, 000 worth of livestock (carabao and cattle) were received by the former rebels on top of the benefits they can avail of through the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP).
Aside from these assistance, they will also undergo skills training and other employment opportunities that will be facilitated by the Tubungan Public Employment Service Office (PESO).
For his part, LTC Joel Benedict Batara, lauded the remarkable effort of the local government of Tubungan in addressing the root causes of insurgency that will surely help the concerted efforts of all government agencies in ending local communist armed conflict. “The Project ROKIT can be considered as one of the Best Practices of the town in terms of implementing the programs and services for the former rebels. With this project, I am renewing my call to the remaining members of the CPP-NPA especially Tubunganons who are still waging the armed struggle to avail this program. Your local government is sincere in helping you to start a new and productive life. Come down, go back to the folds of the government, and be the next beneficiaries of this project,” LTC Batara highlighted.
CAMP MONTECLARO, Igtuba, Miagao, Iloilo – The local government of Tubungan in Iloilo under the leadership of Mayor Roquito Tacsagon launched a reintegration program that will give new courage and hope to the former rebels to start a new and normal life.
The Project ROKIT (Reintegration Oplan Kabalaka for deserving Individuals in Tubungan) will provide livelihood and job opportunities to the rebel returnees.
These opportunities include formal employment both local and abroad through skills training, livelihood projects and values formation.
“The LGU-Tubungan is sincere in improving the lives of the former rebels by giving them financial assistance and sustainable source of livelihood for them to support their families. With this program, we are hoping that more rebels will return to the fold of law and seek a peaceful and productive life,” Mayor Roquito Tacsagon said.
Last February 09, 2020, three former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) who surrendered to the Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Battalion (IB) on December 26, 2019, received worth PHP30,000 financial and livelihood assistance from the local government unit of Tubungan, Iloilo through Project ROKIT.
The said financial and livelihood assistance that includes Php5, 000 Cash and Php25, 000 worth of livestock (carabao and cattle) were received by the former rebels on top of the benefits they can avail of through the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP).
Aside from these assistance, they will also undergo skills training and other employment opportunities that will be facilitated by the Tubungan Public Employment Service Office (PESO).
For his part, LTC Joel Benedict Batara, lauded the remarkable effort of the local government of Tubungan in addressing the root causes of insurgency that will surely help the concerted efforts of all government agencies in ending local communist armed conflict. “The Project ROKIT can be considered as one of the Best Practices of the town in terms of implementing the programs and services for the former rebels. With this project, I am renewing my call to the remaining members of the CPP-NPA especially Tubunganons who are still waging the armed struggle to avail this program. Your local government is sincere in helping you to start a new and productive life. Come down, go back to the folds of the government, and be the next beneficiaries of this project,” LTC Batara highlighted.
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Kalinaw News: JTFC Troops arrest most wanted person of Sultan Kudarat in Joint Law Enforcement Operation
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): JTFC Troops arrest most wanted person of Sultan Kudarat in Joint Law Enforcement Operation (By 6th Infantry Division - Kampilan)
Combined government troops of the 37th IB under the 603IBde of the JTF Central and police officers of the Kalamansig MPS arrested the top 2 of Most Wanted Persons in Sultan Kudarat in a Joint Law Enforcement Operation on Feb 7, 2020.
Troops serving a warrant of arrest for murder arrested Jobert Manongsong Damiles, 27 years old at Brgy Sangay, Kalamansig town of Sultan Kudarat Province.
MGen Diosdado C. Carreon commended the troops for their successful joint law enforcement operation. He also reiterated that the JTFC will always support other law enforcement agencies in the performance of their mandate.
The suspect was turned over to the Kalamansig MPS for proper disposition.
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Combined government troops of the 37th IB under the 603IBde of the JTF Central and police officers of the Kalamansig MPS arrested the top 2 of Most Wanted Persons in Sultan Kudarat in a Joint Law Enforcement Operation on Feb 7, 2020.
Troops serving a warrant of arrest for murder arrested Jobert Manongsong Damiles, 27 years old at Brgy Sangay, Kalamansig town of Sultan Kudarat Province.
MGen Diosdado C. Carreon commended the troops for their successful joint law enforcement operation. He also reiterated that the JTFC will always support other law enforcement agencies in the performance of their mandate.
The suspect was turned over to the Kalamansig MPS for proper disposition.
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Kalinaw News: NSFA, Panaca, Davao City – “The number of New People’s Army is dwindling.”
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): NSFA, Panaca, Davao City – “The number of New People’s Army is dwindling.” (By 66th Infantry Battalion)
This was the revelation of a certain alias Bart after he surrendered to Davao de Oro’s Provincial Task Force – Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF – ELCAC) headed by Hon. Jayvee Tyron L. Uy, MPA on February 10, 2020, at Barangay Cabinuangan, New Bataan, Davao De Oro.
In a report made by Lt. Col. Romman S. Mabborang, Commander of 66th Infantry Battalion to MGen. Jose C Faustino Jr, Commander of Eastern Mindanao Command, alias Bart, a former Vice Commander of the NPA previously being monitored in the northern boundary of Davao De Oro and Davao Oriental decided to leave the group because almost all of their members have surrendered or went into hiding because of hardship and always on the run as brought about by the loss o their former mass bases and contacts.
Accordingly, he further revealed that NPA formations are forced to merge because of the cascade of surrender.
He further confirmed that since 2019, he is the 26th member of their group who surrendered to the government. This came after the surrender of his wife identified as alias Joy/Andy/Tardy, former Deputy Commander of a Pulang Bagani Command to Governor Uy and Hon. Sote M. Matibay, Chairman of Brgy. Panansalan, Compostela, Davao De Oro on January 20, 2020.
The two are now undergoing custodial and stress debriefing prior to their enrollment to E-CLIP Program.
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This was the revelation of a certain alias Bart after he surrendered to Davao de Oro’s Provincial Task Force – Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF – ELCAC) headed by Hon. Jayvee Tyron L. Uy, MPA on February 10, 2020, at Barangay Cabinuangan, New Bataan, Davao De Oro.
In a report made by Lt. Col. Romman S. Mabborang, Commander of 66th Infantry Battalion to MGen. Jose C Faustino Jr, Commander of Eastern Mindanao Command, alias Bart, a former Vice Commander of the NPA previously being monitored in the northern boundary of Davao De Oro and Davao Oriental decided to leave the group because almost all of their members have surrendered or went into hiding because of hardship and always on the run as brought about by the loss o their former mass bases and contacts.
Accordingly, he further revealed that NPA formations are forced to merge because of the cascade of surrender.
He further confirmed that since 2019, he is the 26th member of their group who surrendered to the government. This came after the surrender of his wife identified as alias Joy/Andy/Tardy, former Deputy Commander of a Pulang Bagani Command to Governor Uy and Hon. Sote M. Matibay, Chairman of Brgy. Panansalan, Compostela, Davao De Oro on January 20, 2020.
The two are now undergoing custodial and stress debriefing prior to their enrollment to E-CLIP Program.
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Kalinaw News: CPP-NPA-NDF: The wind beneath the wings of IBON
Posted to Kalinaw News (Feb 11, 2020): CPP-NPA-NDF: The wind beneath the wings of IBON
(By Philippine News Agency)
AN administrative complaint has been filed against me, Secretary Hermogenes Esperon and Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr. by IBON Foundation for red-tagging and identifying them as terrorists.
What this complaint really is an attempt by this Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) above-ground organization to muzzle government — as they have done for decades.
I am sorry to inform IBON and the CPP-NPA-NDF that those days when this old worn-out tactic work is over. And I am happy to tell the Filipino people the good news that the ending of this terrorist scourge is possible — more so if we stand united — in wherever you are on the political spectrum and smash our common enemy — the CPP-NPA-NDF and its fronts.
Not only is it the government’s job to unmask these villains but a moral imperative to name the terrorists in our midst and the ways and means in which they’ve been able to go about the destruction of our country.
My job – a job I take seriously – is to defend and protect and most of all, serve the Filipino people. No matter how many lawsuits are filed against me.
To stop the grief and heartache wrought by the terrorist group, CPP-NPA-NDF and its above-ground organizations (like IBON) for over 5 decades across this once-gentle land of ours.
It is also my duty to inform the Filipino people what it is they must know – more so when what is most precious to them is being stolen from right under their noses: their children who are radicalized, taught the language of hate and mistrust towards government and then recruited into this terrorist organization where unbearable numbers of them have died and lie buried in shallow graves across the land.
Of which IBON is an essential part of.
What then is IBON and where in the CPP NPA NDF organizational structure is it situated?
Under the CPP, there are five main ‘bureaus’: the CPP International Department, the National Organization Department, the National United Front Commission, National Peasant Commission and primary line support staff for finance, education, propaganda.
Briefly, the CPP international Department is behind International Solidarity Works, Migrante and the phony peace talks where “peace” is used as a weapon of war. (To be differentiated from the highly successful and effective local peace talks where over 14,000 NPA members have heeded the call of the President to lay down their arms, go back to the fold of the law and lead productive peaceful lives.)
The 2nd bureau, National Organization Department or the NOD’s task is to organize the basic sectors of society: farmers, women, youth, labor unions, school organizations, transport groups.
The National Peasant Commission organizes and mobilizes farmers in regions and provinces.
And finally, the National United Front Commission (NUFC), whose main mandates are the mobilization of various sectors, alliance building in urban centers and the infiltration of government through the party-list group.
This is where IBON can be found: under the NUFC that is directly under the CPP.
IBON Foundation and IBON Philippines (plus IBON International) are projects of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ Central Committee created during the Marcos years to churn out propaganda under the pretext of ‘research and advocacy’ anchored supposedly on neutral and scientific data.
A cursory glance, though, will show you that their data is neither neutral nor accurate.
Through all its 41 years of existence, IBON has consistently framed statistics in a way that maligns and demeans government so that people will lose confidence in it.
For instance, they’ve denigrated the 5.9% economic growth of our country for 2019 and claimed it is the slowest in 8 years. This is a half-truth because while it is true that this has been the lowest in 8 years, economies all over the world slowed down in 2019 because of global forces like the US-CHINA trade war, the protectionism in EU, Brexit.
And yet in spite all that, our economy grew by 5.9% — which, in fact, makes us the 3rd fastest growing economy in Asia.
The real story is a story of victory — that we grew despite all odds, including working on a reenacted budget—not the story of defeat IBON would like to paint.
So yes, the 5.9% economic growth is the lowest in 8 years but the complete picture that IBON will not say is that 5.9% growth made us the 3rd fastest growing economy in the fastest-growing region of the world.
And that economists and other observers in ‘prestigious multilateral organizations like the World Bank describe the Philippines as “posting really fast growth rates, about three times of what they see in Europe, and Central Asia.” (Ms. Lalita Moory, World Bank Director of Macroeconomics, Trade, and Industry, April 2019).
They also claim that the 7.9 trillion outstanding debt of the Philippines is growing twice as fast as the Aquino Administration.
In reality, the country’s debt, as a share of GDP, has been declining on the back of a healthy growing economy. From as high as 74.4% of GDP in 2004, the Philippines’ debt-to-GDP ratio has declined to only 41.5% in 2019 due to prudent debt management.
Proof of this is the upgrading of our country’s credit rating to ‘BBB+’ last year by Standard and Poor’s- which is a ‘reflection of the international community’s growing confidence in our economy and our country’s ability to manage and pay its debts’. This upgrade puts us ahead of Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam.”
Kinda strange for a ‘research’ group run by respectable looking and intelligent-sounding “researchers”, don’t you think so?
Surprising only if you didn’t know what lurks beneath IBON’s veneer of respectability.
The deft of IBON to twist facts to shame the government is a hallmark of the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF for the simple reason that there is only one end goal for this terrorist organization and it is the overthrow of the government.
Through all these 41 years that IBON has been in existence, you’d be hard-pressed to find one instance when it wasn’t anti-government and neutral.
The chipping away at government institutions has been relentless and steady.
They’ve consistently called for the ouster of each and every sitting Philippine president from Ferdinand Marcos to Cory Aquino to Fidel Ramos to Erap Estrada to Noynoy Aquino and now even the much beloved and highly-trusted Rodrigo Duterte via the Oust Duterte movement.
Here’s the thing about the CPP-NPA-NDF-led groups that you must bear in mind and that will never lead you astray: the CPP will NEVER allow control of these above-ground organizations to anyone’s hands but their own.
Leadership is basic and key.
If you want to know who the terrorists are in our midst, take a look at the leaders of these above-ground organizations: ANAKBAYAN, LFS, GABRIELA, ACT, MAKABAYAN BLOC, etc.
You are then surely looking at high ranking party members of the CPP, whose one and only goal is the overthrow of government achieved by the slow chipping away at our institutions and the installing of themselves in power.
IBON ‘researchers’ pass themselves off as intelligent and professional but really behind them is the terrorist group, CPP-NPA-NDF whose direction they take.
Isang kumpas — and this is the one that leads to overthrow of the government and the securing of communism in our country.
So yes, IBON leaders were placed there by the CPP precisely because they are party members of the CPP who have been faithful to the goal of the CPP- NPA-NDF: the overthrow of the government.
IBON has other functions as well.
While it is under the NUFC bureau of the CPP, it is also under the linework commission, the National Propaganda, and Cultural Commission.
This is where they produce material for propaganda like textbooks of Salugpungan Schools where children as young as 5 years old are taught to be child warriors so when they reach the ripe old age of 8 years old, they become killing machines.
Even more alarming to note is how IBON is part and parcel of textbooks used in our schools that has gone undetected because they approach these schools with ‘research group’ respectability and credibility not as who it is they truly are: cadres of the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF with a deadly agenda in mind: the death of a nation.
IBON has a 3rd function apart from pretending to be a research center for political propaganda — manufacturing what they call ‘imperialist data’ and that is to link up with unwitting NGOs to advocate purportedly for social reforms through research and policy and to encourage grassroots activities that will support CPP-related activities. They’re also linked up with Finance for fundraising for the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF.
They’re also tasked to widen the international link up and support for CPP through open channels of a network like unsuspecting EU NGOs and funding agencies.
IBON, for example, vouches for another CPP-led organization like SALUGPONGAN and because IBON has institutional credentials and that veneer of credibility, funding is approved.
Salugpongan schools ask for funding to build schools for IP children because they claim, not only is the government not doing its job by not building schools for IPs but they even burn these schools down. Then IBON backs these up with statistics they pull out of thin air.
Where else could they be getting their statistics when they’re so far from the truth?
In reality, the Salugpongan schools were closed down by parents of these indigenous children themselves because of the grief and tragedy these schools have brought into their once-peaceful lives, transforming their children into child warriors and where some of the most heinous crimes committed against their children happened including rape and sexual molestation.
As of October 2017, there have been 117 schools with permits to operate nationwide that are exclusively for IPs with a 100% enrollment rate.
On top of that, since 2016, the Department of Education has established mechanisms for engagement and partnership with 170 indigenous cultural communities (ICCs) in 290 communities nationwide; contextualized the curriculum and developed more than 500 lesson plans in collaboration with 60 ICCs, conducted basic training for personnel for 2,718 schools with IP learners on IPEd and the use of contextualized lesson plans; worked with 65 ICCS in 179 communities in developing orthography dictionary, grammar book and other learning materials, hired over 550 teachers, most of whom are IPs to implement the IPEd Program, reached 207 IP communities in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, established 258 schools serving ICCs in Mindanao alone.
Hardly the picture IBON paints of an uncaring government remiss of its duties to educate our most precious resource: our children.
And yet, for each and every time that I’ve gone to the UN or faced Members of the European Parliament and my counterparts in government in Europe, these lies are repeated over and over via slick brochures with the unmistakable logo of IBON.
And right there with the IBON logo is the ever-present ‘DONATE’ button.
The billions they’ve collected from unsuspecting Europeans and Americans who thought they were helping eradicate poverty in the Philippines have gone to perpetuating generational poverty and the funding of terrorism.
Some of these funds have been siphoned off into personal pockets for which there have been a spate of killings among themselves. And then these killings are blamed on government — complete with labels of ‘human rights defender’ of a comrade they had just murdered themselves.
On top of teaching us the deeply wounding language of hate and mistrust towards the government of which, sadly, the Filipino is quite proficient in, the CPP-NPA-NDF is the repository of all the worst forms of hypocrisy and duplicity in this country.
And yes, Rosario Guzman, IBON Research Head, is a CPP member. And so is Sonny Africa, Executive Director of IBON Foundation.
And they’ve carried out the CPP-NPA-NDF goal of government overthrow with utmost precision.
They’re free to deny they’re members of this terrorist group, of course.
As all the others I’ve named as members of the CPP-NPA-NDF in my previous columns are free to deny such a serious allegation but HAVE NOT DONE SO.
Teddy Casiño, Tonyo Cruz, Renato Reyes, Carol Araullo, Lisa Masa, Inday Varona, Nonoy Espina, Alex Danday, Sarah Elago, etc.
They’re not NPA, yes, because they’ve chosen not to dirty their hands with a war they goad our children to fight — and where unbearable numbers of our children have died.
But they are party members of the CPP with blood on their hands.
These cowards and scandalous hypocrites have put other people’s children on the front lines of a war they themselves will not fight and will fight only from the comfort of their upper-class existence and while sending their children to La Salle Greenhills or Europe even.
Parents who have lost their children may search for them till the end of their days, roaming the earth and living out their lives in despair and grief and these bastards could not care less.
And if by chance, they deny they are members of the CPP-NPA-NDF, here’s the one thing these terrorists will never do: denounce the countless atrocities the CPP-NPA-NDF have committed against the most helpless among us.
In other words, they will not denounce what any decent human being will denounce.
So this is how the CPP-NPA-NDF has, through all these decades, destroyed our country: from behind the shadows of their above-ground organizations (like IBON, GABRIELA, ACT, LFS, ANAKBAYAN ) led by CPP-NPA-NDF party members that dance in step to the dirge that leads our country to its death and destruction.
And this is why we MUST refuse to be silenced.
And why we must speak the names of those who try to steal from us what is most precious to us: our children, our families, our greatest hopes and aspirations for ourselves and our country.
IBON is a CPP-NPA-NDF above-ground organization and I have given them and their comrades so much material to sue me further.
I hope they do just that and I hope they can take it as far as I can take it.
Because I want them to speak their lies in a court of law where it will cost them.
And I want it to cost them as much as they have stolen from the Filipino people.
I, therefore, welcome with open arms this opportunity to unmask before the Filipino people an organization that has deeply wounded our country — the CPP-NPA-NDF via its legal front, IBON.
Someday soon, in a few breaths — we will be able to hand over to future generations of Filipinos a country no longer torn apart by strife.
I share the President’s brave dream of ending this terrible scourge that has brought extreme generational poverty and unending war to our people so that we may know in our life what it is like to live out our best lives in peace and prosperity in a country that has moved forward—finally free from the horrible grip of terrorism.
And I will do everything within my power — both as a public servant and a human being — to realize this dream.
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(By Philippine News Agency)
AN administrative complaint has been filed against me, Secretary Hermogenes Esperon and Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr. by IBON Foundation for red-tagging and identifying them as terrorists.
What this complaint really is an attempt by this Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) above-ground organization to muzzle government — as they have done for decades.
I am sorry to inform IBON and the CPP-NPA-NDF that those days when this old worn-out tactic work is over. And I am happy to tell the Filipino people the good news that the ending of this terrorist scourge is possible — more so if we stand united — in wherever you are on the political spectrum and smash our common enemy — the CPP-NPA-NDF and its fronts.
Not only is it the government’s job to unmask these villains but a moral imperative to name the terrorists in our midst and the ways and means in which they’ve been able to go about the destruction of our country.
My job – a job I take seriously – is to defend and protect and most of all, serve the Filipino people. No matter how many lawsuits are filed against me.
To stop the grief and heartache wrought by the terrorist group, CPP-NPA-NDF and its above-ground organizations (like IBON) for over 5 decades across this once-gentle land of ours.
It is also my duty to inform the Filipino people what it is they must know – more so when what is most precious to them is being stolen from right under their noses: their children who are radicalized, taught the language of hate and mistrust towards government and then recruited into this terrorist organization where unbearable numbers of them have died and lie buried in shallow graves across the land.
Of which IBON is an essential part of.
What then is IBON and where in the CPP NPA NDF organizational structure is it situated?
Under the CPP, there are five main ‘bureaus’: the CPP International Department, the National Organization Department, the National United Front Commission, National Peasant Commission and primary line support staff for finance, education, propaganda.
Briefly, the CPP international Department is behind International Solidarity Works, Migrante and the phony peace talks where “peace” is used as a weapon of war. (To be differentiated from the highly successful and effective local peace talks where over 14,000 NPA members have heeded the call of the President to lay down their arms, go back to the fold of the law and lead productive peaceful lives.)
The 2nd bureau, National Organization Department or the NOD’s task is to organize the basic sectors of society: farmers, women, youth, labor unions, school organizations, transport groups.
The National Peasant Commission organizes and mobilizes farmers in regions and provinces.
And finally, the National United Front Commission (NUFC), whose main mandates are the mobilization of various sectors, alliance building in urban centers and the infiltration of government through the party-list group.
This is where IBON can be found: under the NUFC that is directly under the CPP.
IBON Foundation and IBON Philippines (plus IBON International) are projects of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ Central Committee created during the Marcos years to churn out propaganda under the pretext of ‘research and advocacy’ anchored supposedly on neutral and scientific data.
A cursory glance, though, will show you that their data is neither neutral nor accurate.
Through all its 41 years of existence, IBON has consistently framed statistics in a way that maligns and demeans government so that people will lose confidence in it.
For instance, they’ve denigrated the 5.9% economic growth of our country for 2019 and claimed it is the slowest in 8 years. This is a half-truth because while it is true that this has been the lowest in 8 years, economies all over the world slowed down in 2019 because of global forces like the US-CHINA trade war, the protectionism in EU, Brexit.
And yet in spite all that, our economy grew by 5.9% — which, in fact, makes us the 3rd fastest growing economy in Asia.
The real story is a story of victory — that we grew despite all odds, including working on a reenacted budget—not the story of defeat IBON would like to paint.
So yes, the 5.9% economic growth is the lowest in 8 years but the complete picture that IBON will not say is that 5.9% growth made us the 3rd fastest growing economy in the fastest-growing region of the world.
And that economists and other observers in ‘prestigious multilateral organizations like the World Bank describe the Philippines as “posting really fast growth rates, about three times of what they see in Europe, and Central Asia.” (Ms. Lalita Moory, World Bank Director of Macroeconomics, Trade, and Industry, April 2019).
They also claim that the 7.9 trillion outstanding debt of the Philippines is growing twice as fast as the Aquino Administration.
In reality, the country’s debt, as a share of GDP, has been declining on the back of a healthy growing economy. From as high as 74.4% of GDP in 2004, the Philippines’ debt-to-GDP ratio has declined to only 41.5% in 2019 due to prudent debt management.
Proof of this is the upgrading of our country’s credit rating to ‘BBB+’ last year by Standard and Poor’s- which is a ‘reflection of the international community’s growing confidence in our economy and our country’s ability to manage and pay its debts’. This upgrade puts us ahead of Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam.”
Kinda strange for a ‘research’ group run by respectable looking and intelligent-sounding “researchers”, don’t you think so?
Surprising only if you didn’t know what lurks beneath IBON’s veneer of respectability.
The deft of IBON to twist facts to shame the government is a hallmark of the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF for the simple reason that there is only one end goal for this terrorist organization and it is the overthrow of the government.
Through all these 41 years that IBON has been in existence, you’d be hard-pressed to find one instance when it wasn’t anti-government and neutral.
The chipping away at government institutions has been relentless and steady.
They’ve consistently called for the ouster of each and every sitting Philippine president from Ferdinand Marcos to Cory Aquino to Fidel Ramos to Erap Estrada to Noynoy Aquino and now even the much beloved and highly-trusted Rodrigo Duterte via the Oust Duterte movement.
Here’s the thing about the CPP-NPA-NDF-led groups that you must bear in mind and that will never lead you astray: the CPP will NEVER allow control of these above-ground organizations to anyone’s hands but their own.
Leadership is basic and key.
If you want to know who the terrorists are in our midst, take a look at the leaders of these above-ground organizations: ANAKBAYAN, LFS, GABRIELA, ACT, MAKABAYAN BLOC, etc.
You are then surely looking at high ranking party members of the CPP, whose one and only goal is the overthrow of government achieved by the slow chipping away at our institutions and the installing of themselves in power.
IBON ‘researchers’ pass themselves off as intelligent and professional but really behind them is the terrorist group, CPP-NPA-NDF whose direction they take.
Isang kumpas — and this is the one that leads to overthrow of the government and the securing of communism in our country.
So yes, IBON leaders were placed there by the CPP precisely because they are party members of the CPP who have been faithful to the goal of the CPP- NPA-NDF: the overthrow of the government.
IBON has other functions as well.
While it is under the NUFC bureau of the CPP, it is also under the linework commission, the National Propaganda, and Cultural Commission.
This is where they produce material for propaganda like textbooks of Salugpungan Schools where children as young as 5 years old are taught to be child warriors so when they reach the ripe old age of 8 years old, they become killing machines.
Even more alarming to note is how IBON is part and parcel of textbooks used in our schools that has gone undetected because they approach these schools with ‘research group’ respectability and credibility not as who it is they truly are: cadres of the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF with a deadly agenda in mind: the death of a nation.
IBON has a 3rd function apart from pretending to be a research center for political propaganda — manufacturing what they call ‘imperialist data’ and that is to link up with unwitting NGOs to advocate purportedly for social reforms through research and policy and to encourage grassroots activities that will support CPP-related activities. They’re also linked up with Finance for fundraising for the terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF.
They’re also tasked to widen the international link up and support for CPP through open channels of a network like unsuspecting EU NGOs and funding agencies.
IBON, for example, vouches for another CPP-led organization like SALUGPONGAN and because IBON has institutional credentials and that veneer of credibility, funding is approved.
Salugpongan schools ask for funding to build schools for IP children because they claim, not only is the government not doing its job by not building schools for IPs but they even burn these schools down. Then IBON backs these up with statistics they pull out of thin air.
Where else could they be getting their statistics when they’re so far from the truth?
In reality, the Salugpongan schools were closed down by parents of these indigenous children themselves because of the grief and tragedy these schools have brought into their once-peaceful lives, transforming their children into child warriors and where some of the most heinous crimes committed against their children happened including rape and sexual molestation.
As of October 2017, there have been 117 schools with permits to operate nationwide that are exclusively for IPs with a 100% enrollment rate.
On top of that, since 2016, the Department of Education has established mechanisms for engagement and partnership with 170 indigenous cultural communities (ICCs) in 290 communities nationwide; contextualized the curriculum and developed more than 500 lesson plans in collaboration with 60 ICCs, conducted basic training for personnel for 2,718 schools with IP learners on IPEd and the use of contextualized lesson plans; worked with 65 ICCS in 179 communities in developing orthography dictionary, grammar book and other learning materials, hired over 550 teachers, most of whom are IPs to implement the IPEd Program, reached 207 IP communities in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, established 258 schools serving ICCs in Mindanao alone.
Hardly the picture IBON paints of an uncaring government remiss of its duties to educate our most precious resource: our children.
And yet, for each and every time that I’ve gone to the UN or faced Members of the European Parliament and my counterparts in government in Europe, these lies are repeated over and over via slick brochures with the unmistakable logo of IBON.
And right there with the IBON logo is the ever-present ‘DONATE’ button.
The billions they’ve collected from unsuspecting Europeans and Americans who thought they were helping eradicate poverty in the Philippines have gone to perpetuating generational poverty and the funding of terrorism.
Some of these funds have been siphoned off into personal pockets for which there have been a spate of killings among themselves. And then these killings are blamed on government — complete with labels of ‘human rights defender’ of a comrade they had just murdered themselves.
On top of teaching us the deeply wounding language of hate and mistrust towards the government of which, sadly, the Filipino is quite proficient in, the CPP-NPA-NDF is the repository of all the worst forms of hypocrisy and duplicity in this country.
And yes, Rosario Guzman, IBON Research Head, is a CPP member. And so is Sonny Africa, Executive Director of IBON Foundation.
And they’ve carried out the CPP-NPA-NDF goal of government overthrow with utmost precision.
They’re free to deny they’re members of this terrorist group, of course.
As all the others I’ve named as members of the CPP-NPA-NDF in my previous columns are free to deny such a serious allegation but HAVE NOT DONE SO.
Teddy Casiño, Tonyo Cruz, Renato Reyes, Carol Araullo, Lisa Masa, Inday Varona, Nonoy Espina, Alex Danday, Sarah Elago, etc.
They’re not NPA, yes, because they’ve chosen not to dirty their hands with a war they goad our children to fight — and where unbearable numbers of our children have died.
But they are party members of the CPP with blood on their hands.
These cowards and scandalous hypocrites have put other people’s children on the front lines of a war they themselves will not fight and will fight only from the comfort of their upper-class existence and while sending their children to La Salle Greenhills or Europe even.
Parents who have lost their children may search for them till the end of their days, roaming the earth and living out their lives in despair and grief and these bastards could not care less.
And if by chance, they deny they are members of the CPP-NPA-NDF, here’s the one thing these terrorists will never do: denounce the countless atrocities the CPP-NPA-NDF have committed against the most helpless among us.
In other words, they will not denounce what any decent human being will denounce.
So this is how the CPP-NPA-NDF has, through all these decades, destroyed our country: from behind the shadows of their above-ground organizations (like IBON, GABRIELA, ACT, LFS, ANAKBAYAN ) led by CPP-NPA-NDF party members that dance in step to the dirge that leads our country to its death and destruction.
And this is why we MUST refuse to be silenced.
And why we must speak the names of those who try to steal from us what is most precious to us: our children, our families, our greatest hopes and aspirations for ourselves and our country.
IBON is a CPP-NPA-NDF above-ground organization and I have given them and their comrades so much material to sue me further.
I hope they do just that and I hope they can take it as far as I can take it.
Because I want them to speak their lies in a court of law where it will cost them.
And I want it to cost them as much as they have stolen from the Filipino people.
I, therefore, welcome with open arms this opportunity to unmask before the Filipino people an organization that has deeply wounded our country — the CPP-NPA-NDF via its legal front, IBON.
Someday soon, in a few breaths — we will be able to hand over to future generations of Filipinos a country no longer torn apart by strife.
I share the President’s brave dream of ending this terrible scourge that has brought extreme generational poverty and unending war to our people so that we may know in our life what it is like to live out our best lives in peace and prosperity in a country that has moved forward—finally free from the horrible grip of terrorism.
And I will do everything within my power — both as a public servant and a human being — to realize this dream.
[Kalinaw News is the official online source of information on the pursuit for peace in the Philippines This website is a property of the Civil-Military Operations Regiment, Philippine Army located at Lawton Avenue, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. Contact us: kalinawnews@cmoregiment.com]
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