From Panay News (May 17, 2021): 2 Ilonggo ‘terrorists’ alive, active in Panay – 3ID (By Ruby Silubrico)
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Two Ilonggos – Ma. Concepcion Araneta-Bocala and Tomas Dominado Jr. – who were included in the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) list of individuals it tagged as “terrorists” are just somewhere in Panay Island and every active in the communist insurgency movement, according to the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID).
The two are the key regional leaders running the affairs of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Panay, said Major Cenon Pancito III, 3ID spokesperson.
The NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
“Tracts and traces suggest that they are in the area, but we are ready to divulge how our tracker members is consolidating information for their whereabouts, but at least we have leads in pursuing them,” Pancito added.
The ATC said Bocala and Dominado were affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) which the government has classified a terrorist organization.
Pancito said the 3ID formed tracking teams to hunt them down.
“It is clear that their minds are working to bring this government down and advance their outdated communism ideas. The long arms of the law will eventually catch them. We have captured Bocala before, we can definitely catch them again, given their limited support. Now the people’s will to end insurgency is louder than ever,” Pancito said.
Two Ilonggos – Ma. Concepcion Araneta-Bocala and Tomas Dominado Jr. – who were included in the Anti-Terrorism Council’s (ATC) list of individuals it tagged as “terrorists” are just somewhere in Panay Island and every active in the communist insurgency movement, according to the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID).
The two are the key regional leaders running the affairs of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Panay, said Major Cenon Pancito III, 3ID spokesperson.
The NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
“Tracts and traces suggest that they are in the area, but we are ready to divulge how our tracker members is consolidating information for their whereabouts, but at least we have leads in pursuing them,” Pancito added.
The ATC said Bocala and Dominado were affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) which the government has classified a terrorist organization.
Pancito said the 3ID formed tracking teams to hunt them down.
“It is clear that their minds are working to bring this government down and advance their outdated communism ideas. The long arms of the law will eventually catch them. We have captured Bocala before, we can definitely catch them again, given their limited support. Now the people’s will to end insurgency is louder than ever,” Pancito said.
He added: “We subscribe to the Anti-Terror Council for the need to identify who our enemies are. It is the natural for anybody that before we address the problem, we should identify who and what is our problem. Their association to the CPP-NPA may have come late but at least for now we can say that our vision is clearer now.”
Bocala is a peace consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) while Dominado is an activist.
In Resolution No. 17 (2021) released recently, the ATC lumped Bocala and Dominado alongside CPP founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison and wife Julieta Sison and 15 others alleged officials and members of the CPP.
The ATC branded them “terrorists” for allegedly “planning, preparing, facilitating, conspiring, and inciting the commission of terrorism and recruitment to and membership in a terrorist organization or a group organized for the purpose of engaging in terrorism.”
https://www.panaynews.net/2-ilonggo-terrorists-alive-active-in-panay-3id/
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