Mt Province rebels kills ‘military agent’ on first day of ceasefire

From InterAksyon (Aug 30): Mt Province rebels kills ‘military agent’ on first day of ceasefire

Communist rebels in Mountain Province said they  killed a militiaman that said was also working as an Army intelligence agent on August 21, soon after the start of a seven-day unilateral ceasefire their national leadership declared for the formal resumption of peace talks with government.

Magno Udyaw, spokesman of the New People’s Army’s Leonardo Pacsi Command, said Junjun Angtan, alias Dadpaas, a native of Barangay Bantaugan, Bauko town and a member of the 77th CAFGU Active Auxiliary Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division, was meted the “death sentence” for “crimes against the revolutionary movement and the people.”

Angtan, said Udyaw, “overzealously and continuously monitored the movements of NPA units operating in the western side of Mt Province and directly reported to his superiors in the 54th IB (Infantry Battalion) since 2010,” when he acted as lead scout of a massive military operation on the borders of Tadian, Bauko, Besao and Sagada that led to the discovery of a rebel camp and a subsequent battle on Mount Alipiniw.
The NPA spokesman said the operation was mounted after hearings by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau on mining activities in the area.

Following this, Angtan “regularly reported” to the 54th IB in Bontoc and accompanied military agents on operations and in setting up networks, going with the unit when it transferred its headquarters to Paracelis town in 2012, where he “continued his nefarious activities in eastern Mountain Province and eastern Ifugao,” he added.

Even before the 2010 military operation, Udyaw said the NPA had repeatedly warned Angtan against his intelligence work and advised his relatives to dissuade him.
However, Angtan ignored the warnings.

Udyaw said the death of Angtan should “should serve as a warning” to Igorots “not to become traitors to the tribes and communities they come from by working as devout paid agents of the oppressors.”

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