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From Kalinaw News (Mar 3, 2023): New 3ID Commander Slams NPA for Continued Extortion in Negros 

CAMP PERALTA, Jamindan, Capiz – 3rd Infantry (Spearhead)
Division Commander BGen Marion R Sison condemned the CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) in Negros Occidental for robbing the people’s hard-earned money through theirextortion activities.

“These CPP-NPA Terrorists are desperate robbers who are losing the support of the people; hence, they continued forcing businessmen, including ordinary civilians in Negros, to give in to their extortion demands to sustain their crumpling organization,” BGen Sison said.

BGen Sison made this statement following the recovery of numerous extortion letters from the possession of the slain NPAs in an encounter in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on Wednesday, March 01, 2023.
The extortion letters contain demands to businesses, especially in rural areas signed by Armando Magbanua, Regional Extortion Group of the NPA’s Apolinario Gatmaitan Command.

BGen Sison also slammed the NPAs for blatantly fabricating lies through their extortion letters that their resources, mainly coming from the contributions of workers and peasants, were used to support the social needs of the people.

“They are not helping; they are robbing the meager income of the workers and peasant to fund their terroristic activities. They are using Negrenses’ earnings to cast fear and terror, destroy properties, and ruin innocent lives. Their continued extortion activities manifest their true nature as anti-people, anti-peace, and anti-development communist-terrorist organization,” BGen Sison stressed.

The new 3ID Commander also called on the businessmen and the Negreses to help fight the decades-long terrorism of the CNTs by rejecting the extortion demand of the NPAs and reporting their illegal activities to the government forces.
“Join us in putting the CNT’s terrorism to an end.

We can do it if you help us cease their extortion activities. Continue giving reliable information to your Army and PNP about the NPAs’ movement and activities to prevent them from forcing you to give in to their extortion demands,” he added.

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