From the Philippine Information Agency (Mar 22, 2021): Army troops nab NPA rebel in Iloilo clash (By Jemin B. Guillermo)
ILOILO CITY, March 22 (PIA) – Another member of the New People’s Army fell into the hands of the government troops.The 66-year old female “Alias Bing” was collared by the members of the Philippine Army’s 12th Infantry Battalion following a two-minute armed encounter in Janiuay, Iloilo in the early morning of March 16.
Alias Bing, who is a member of the NPA’s SYP Baloy Platoon and said to be a resident of Barangay Araal, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, was arrested while the soldiers were doing a pursuit operation at Barangay Dabong at around 1:20 a.m. of March 16, said 30st Brigade Civil Military Operations Officer Capt. Hazel Joy Durotan in a press release.
The rebel was caught seeking refuge from a house in Dabong village after her other comrades left her and fled from the area.
Following the clash, the troops also seized a Caliber .45 pistol with two magazines and seven ammunitions, and components in making anti-personnel landmine and subversive documents with high intelligence value.
Also recovered from the site of encounter were one hammock, two backpacks and a sling bag, assorted groceries, 10 meters electric wire, and personal belongings, Durotan said.
The arrested rebel and the confiscated items are now in the custody of the Janiuay Police Station.
Brigadier General Marion Sison, the 301st Infantry Brigade Commander, believed that the incident will be a big blow to the NPA’s recruitment and extortion activities given that high-intelligence materials were seized.
Sison revealed that based on the recovered documents, the communist-terrorist group is planning to attack patrol bases, security forces and sabotage government projects in the area.
He said that the recoveries of items needed for staging attacks like components of anti-personnel landmine and electric wire would prove that the NPAs are out to sow terror.
"The CPP-NPA’s are doings evils of making and using anti-personnel landmine like the March 12 attack they did in Lambunao," Sison said, referring to the IED explosion in Barangay Pughanan, Lambunao town that wounded a police personnel and a Barangay Kagawad.
He noted that what the NPAs did was a blatant violation of Republic Act 9851 or the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity, that penalizes as a war crime the employment of means of warfare such as weapons, projectiles and material which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict.
Sison said that while the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing - NPA, had been fighting for more than five decades already, there is nothing new and they have not done anything but to sow terror and instill fear among the people.
He said, however, that the government is intensely determined to end the local communist armed conflict.
Sison said that the government remains ready to accept and help those who are willing to lay down their arms in the pursuit of peace
And despite and in spite of everything, he said the government would accept those who are willing to lay down their arms in pursuit of peace.
“On March 29, the NPA would be celebrating its 52nd founding anniversary. They will also mark their anniversary by conducting attacks on governments troops and installations and other key economic points,” Sison said. (PIA6/Story and Photo by Capt. HJDurotan/CMO-301Bde/PA)
Following the clash, the troops also seized a Caliber .45 pistol with two magazines and seven ammunitions, and components in making anti-personnel landmine and subversive documents with high intelligence value.
Also recovered from the site of encounter were one hammock, two backpacks and a sling bag, assorted groceries, 10 meters electric wire, and personal belongings, Durotan said.
The arrested rebel and the confiscated items are now in the custody of the Janiuay Police Station.
Brigadier General Marion Sison, the 301st Infantry Brigade Commander, believed that the incident will be a big blow to the NPA’s recruitment and extortion activities given that high-intelligence materials were seized.
Sison revealed that based on the recovered documents, the communist-terrorist group is planning to attack patrol bases, security forces and sabotage government projects in the area.
He said that the recoveries of items needed for staging attacks like components of anti-personnel landmine and electric wire would prove that the NPAs are out to sow terror.
"The CPP-NPA’s are doings evils of making and using anti-personnel landmine like the March 12 attack they did in Lambunao," Sison said, referring to the IED explosion in Barangay Pughanan, Lambunao town that wounded a police personnel and a Barangay Kagawad.
He noted that what the NPAs did was a blatant violation of Republic Act 9851 or the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity, that penalizes as a war crime the employment of means of warfare such as weapons, projectiles and material which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict.
Sison said that while the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing - NPA, had been fighting for more than five decades already, there is nothing new and they have not done anything but to sow terror and instill fear among the people.
He said, however, that the government is intensely determined to end the local communist armed conflict.
Sison said that the government remains ready to accept and help those who are willing to lay down their arms in the pursuit of peace
And despite and in spite of everything, he said the government would accept those who are willing to lay down their arms in pursuit of peace.
“On March 29, the NPA would be celebrating its 52nd founding anniversary. They will also mark their anniversary by conducting attacks on governments troops and installations and other key economic points,” Sison said. (PIA6/Story and Photo by Capt. HJDurotan/CMO-301Bde/PA)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1070231
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