Posted to the 82nd Infantry Brigade (8th Infantry Division) Facebook Page (Jan 6, 2024): High Ranking NPA Leader killed in a clash with government troops in Eastern Samar
PRESS RELEASE: January 6, 2024High Ranking NPA Leader killed in a clash with government troops in Eastern Samar
BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar - Martin Cardeño Colima @MOKI, Secretary of Sub-Regional Committee-SESAME, Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee (SRC SESAME, EVRPC) of the communist terrorist group NPA, died during an encounter with troops of 78th Infantry (WARRIOR) Battalion that were conducting security patrol on January 6, 2024 at 11:30 in the morning in the vicinity of Brgy San Gabriel, Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The 78th Infantry Battalion is under the operational control of 802nd Infantry (Peerless) Brigade, 8th Infantry (Stormtroopers) Division, Philippine Army.
“We were responding to repeated reports of the civilians regarding the presence of the terrorist NPA in Brgy San Gabriel conducting extortion activities and planning to liquidate members of CAFGU auxiliary and some Former Rebels. Details of their (NPA) sighted locations, movements and activities revealed by the civilians provided our patrolling troops a chance to track their location that resulted to an encounter that resulted to the death of Martin Colima @Moki, the Secretary of SRC-SESAME. The government troops also recovered one (1) Caliber .45 Pistol and seven (7) backpacks in the encounter site.” Lieutenant Colonel Allan T. Tria, Battalion Commander, 78th Infantry Battalion explained.
Colima is the mastermind and one of the perpetrators of the ambush incident along the National Highway of Brgy Libuton, Borongan City, Eastern Samar on December 13, 2019 that killed a policeman and 3 civilians, and wounded at least 12 other civilians, including three minors, one of whom is a one-year-old baby.
“In as much as we in the 802nd Infantry (PEERLESS) Brigade had addressed the concerns of the people of Borongan City by preventing the atrocities being planned by the communist terrorist group and in insulating their communities from the group of @Moki, I am saddened of the death of another fellow Filipino”. “In behalf of the Philippine Army, I express my condolences to the bereaved family and relatives of Martin Colima, along with my appeal for his family and relatives in Brgy San Mateo, Borongan City to claim his remains once the process for his identification is finished, and give him a decent burial.” Brigadier General Noel A Vestuir, Commander, 802nd Infantry Brigade said.
“If the leadership of SRC Sesame, EVRPC only heeded to the long-standing call of the local leaders of Eastern Samar for them to abandon their armed struggle and rejoin their families, this could not have happened. With the death of the top CPP-NPA leader in our area of responsibility, it is very imminent that fighters under SRC Sesame will lose direction, be demoralized, and incapable of protracted fighting for a lost cause and incorrect communist ideology. The 802nd Infantry (PEERLESS) Brigade joins the local leaders, the Barangay Captains, Municipal and City Mayors and the Governor of Samar and Eastern Samar provinces, along with other government agencies and Civil Society Organizations in the call for the remaining members of the NPA to abandon the armed struggle and return peacefully to their communities. Listen to the plea of your families and relatives to go home to them and live a life of peace, love and happiness away from danger, fatigue, and hunger. The government with the help of civil society organizations is always ready to accept you, and provide necessary assistance to capacitate you as you start a new life in the mainstream Filipino society.” Brigadier General Vestuir ended. -30-
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