Kalinaw News: Evangeline Rapanut aka Chat/Ines falls into authority’s hands

From Kalinaw News (May 31, 2022): Evangeline Rapanut aka Chat/Ines falls into authority’s hands



CAMP MELCHOR F DELA CRUZ, Upi, Gamu, Isabela- After years of sowing fear and terror, high ranking Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) member Evangeline Rapanut also known as Chat/Ines was arrested by combined forces of the AFP and PNP in Greenwood Heights Subdivision, Brgy Paliparan 1, Dasmariñas City, Cavite today, May 31, 2022. Rapanut was served with Warrants of Arrest for the crimes of Murder and Frustrated Murder she and her cohorts committed in Cagayan Valley region.

Evangeline RAPANUT @Chat/Ines was the former Secretary of Komiteng Rehiyon- Cagayan Valley (KR-CV), and a current CPP Central Committee member; 2nd Deputy Secretar

y for Organization and Deputy Secretary, National Education Department (NED) of the CPP-NPA-NDF. Rapanut has been in the underground movement since the 1970s until she became a full-time NPA member in the mid-1970s. Randy Belen TAMAYO @Deng, communication staff of the National Education Department of the CPP-NPA-NDF was also arrested during the conduct of the said law enforcement operation.

Assorted war materials were recovered during the operation to wit: one (1) M16 Blackwater Bushmaster assault rifle with SN L925100, one (1) magazine assembly with 18 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition, one (1) 9mm Armscor pistol with SN 1013624, one (1) magazine assembly for 9mm with 6 rounds ammunition, one (1) hand grenade, four (4) detonating cords, one (1) blasting cap, one (1) Kingston USB flash drive with 8Gb memory, and several cellular phones and electronic devices.

Rapanut is responsible for mass orientations to radicalize especially the youth, students, and vulnerable sectors such as indigenous people, trade unions, urban poor, and farmers purposely to recruit additional political and military cadres in support of the recovery of Komiteng Probinsya (KOMPROB) Batangas under Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee (STRPC) and expansion into parts of Cavite and Central Quezon as the center of manufacturing and industrial establishments in Southern Tagalog.

MGen Laurence E Mina congratulated the combined government forces on the successful neutralization of high-ranking CPP members. “The apprehension of Evangeline Rapanut and Randy Tamayo will lead to the exposure of the CTG’s nationwide extortion operations, infiltration into the different sectors of society, the conduct of terroristic activities, and their international and local political works, particularly their use of front organizations. Their arrest will further weaken the CTG which is now on the verge of collapse due to the successive government operations that resulted in the neutralization and apprehension of its Party leadership.”

MGen Mina further stressed that the arrest of Rapanut and Tamayo could not have been made possible without the professionalism and competence of the government forces involved, and the strong support of the people.

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