Kalinaw News: CTGs surrendered to Philippine Army, food cache recovered ahead of NPA anniversary

Posted to Kalinaw News (Mar 30, 2021): CTGs surrendered to Philippine Army, food cache recovered ahead of NPA anniversary

BALER, Aurora-Members of the communist terrorist groups (CTGs) of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered on Monday, March 28, 2021, ahead on the occasion of their 52nd founding anniversary.

Lt. Col. Reandrew P. Rubio, commander of 91st Infantry “Sinagtala” Battalion, Philippine Army said that 1st Lieutenant Bobby A. Ferrer of bravo company and the 2nd provincial mobile force company facilitated the voluntary surrender of Renier Lopez Gomez, alias Datu, former member of Domingo Erlando Command (DEC), 33, a resident of Sitio Paraiso, Barangay Culat, Casiguran, Aurora and Mariano Guerrero Corpuz, alias Alvin/Vino, former member of DEC, 34, married, a resident of Barangay Lawang, Dilasag, Aurora.

“The surrender of two (2) former CNTs and withdrawal of support to CTG and its Sectoral Front Organizations of three (3) exploited local residents signals the continuing dissolution of the KLG SIERRA MADRE. This also indicates that the local residents in Aurora are no longer supporting the CTGs. They want lasting peace and development and willing to support the government,” Ltc Rubio said.

He also said that the team of 2nd Lieutenant Josua A. Aurelio, Bravo Coy Executive Officer together with the other friendly forces facilitated the withdrawal of support to CTG and sectoral front organization (SFO) of three (3) exploited local populace identified as Randy T Cortina, 51 years old, married, resident of KM 16, Barangay Calaocan Dipaculao; Marilou R. Paderes, 53 yrs old, married, resident of Purok 7, Barangay Calaocan, Dipaculao; and Carding D. Mendoza, 30, married, a resident of Purok 7 Calaocan, Dipaculao at the vicinity of Barangay Calaocan, Dipaculao, Aurora.

The Battalion commander also said that the Delta Company of 91st IB together with 1PMFC of Nueva Ecija Police provincial Office (NEPPO) and other security forces while conducting joint strike operations in response to the revelations of Former Rebels who are now CAFGU active Auxiliary (CAAs) of Antipolo, PB, Delta Company, 91IB at vicinity of Barangay Labi, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija recovered another four (4), containers of 25 kilos rice.

Initial information received by the 91st IB said that the recovered food cache was owned by the remnants of weakened Komiteng Larangang Guerilla Sierra madre (KLG-SM).

Ltc Rubio furthered that the recent discovery of CTG food cache in Brgy labi, bongabon is a manifestation that the remnants of weakened KLG SIERRA MADRE are now on the run as a result of intensified combat operations by the government troops.

“The timely information provided by the local folks and the revelation of FRs led to successful recovery of CTG food cache. Due to insufficient supplies and lack of support system from the local residents prompted the CNTs to abandon the armed struggle and live peacefully with their families and loved ones,” he said.

During the interview with the surrenderers, they have realized the meaningless guerrilla fighting and deceptive communist recruitment in the mountainous communities and only brought intimidation, violence, and socio-economic despair to the people.

“With the peace, development, and security operations in partnership with the government agencies and local government units, we are now starting to reap the fruits of our collective efforts to finally end insurgency. They decided to surrender even the weakened NPA anniversary will celebrate tomorrow,” Ltc Rubio said.

“Those weakened CPP-NPA terrorists who remain entangled in their twisted violent ideology and terroristic ways; they must surrender now as the 91st IB will always relentless in its operations and we will hunt down the enemy until the last communist terrorist element is prevented from waging violence and intimidation to our peace-loving people in the provinces of Aurora and Nueva Ecija,” he furthered.

The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) cascaded down to the provincial, city, municipal, and barangay level with the military and police units as components, facilitated the responsive delivery of government services in the remotest communities and this helped a lot in encouraging the disgruntled communist rebels to abandon their violent armed struggle.

“What we see now is the irreversible collapse of the CPP-NPA terror groups in our areas of responsibility and I think this is also happening in other insurgency-affected areas of the KLG-SM. As the CTG celebrate its founding anniversary of lies, violence, corruption, and exploitation on March 29, 2021, their guerrilla units are breaking down to their ultimate defeat as manifested by the continuous influx of surrenderers in the past years and recent months,” Ltc Rubio said, explaining the continuous sustained combat operations by the government troops to end armed conflicts.

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