CPP/NPA-Bicol ROC: Slain civilian in San Fernando, Camarines Sur, proof of terrorism brought by PNP Chief Eleazar’s anti-communist order

Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Aug 24, 2021): Slain civilian in San Fernando, Camarines Sur, proof of terrorism brought by PNP Chief Eleazar’s anti-communist order

RAYMUNDO BUENFUERZA

SPOKESPERSON

BICOL REGIONAL OPERATIONAL COMMAND (ROMULO JALLORES COMMAND)

NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY

AUGUST 24, 2021

Read in: Pilipino

The AFP and PNP’s declaration of a supposed encounter in San Fernando, Camarines Sur in early August is nothing but fake news. The slain victim, Arnel Marco Olitoquit, was a civilian and had not been a member of the NPA. This is proven by the Olitoquit family’s public plea on social media platforms after the victim disappeared last August 7 and was said to be killed during an encounter on August 9.

The killing of Olitoquit is an irrefutable proof of the escalating violence that PNP Chief Guillermo Eleazar anti-communist order will bring not only to Masbate, but to the whole Bicol region. Before the said directive, numerous civilians have been killed by the PNP under their Simultaneous Anti-Criminality and Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) campaigns.

Even worse, Eleazar’s orders stand atop various anomalies and corruption cases that shroud the PNP, AFP and the counter-insurgency machinery National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Eleazar commanded the PNP to overrun Masbate with their operations in the midst of the public’s condemnation of his statement that the Commission on Audit should stop publicizing their reports exposing cases of plunder and anomalies in the PNP. The P6.6 million discovered to be anomalously spent by the PNP Region V was most certainly used to fund fake encounters and for the killings of civilians like Olitoquit.

The US-Duterte regime’s ever worsening deception and violence deepen the societal crises. More than combatting militarization in their communities, exposing military and police’s abuses and condemning the intensification of state fascism and terrorism, the people cannot trust any other alternative but to take up arms and join the armed revolution. In advancing the democratic revolution, not only will this rotten system from which the masses’ dismal conditions are borne out of be destroyed, but a new system that shall give birth to genuine freedom and development be truly established.

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