Dead NPA fighter abandoned: Arevalo

From the Visayan Daily Star (Mar 9, 2019): Dead NPA fighter abandoned: Arevalo

Alleged New People’s Army member Ricky Pojas died, not from bullets, but from sickness and hardships in the mountain.

Worse, he was abandoned by his comrades in a funeral parlor at Brgy. Lupni in Kabankalan City, where he was brought on March 6, Col. Benedict Arevalo, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, said yesterday.

Pojas, a member of the Armando Sumayang Command, was among those being hunted by government troopers for several years now in southern Negros.
Arevalo said the death of Pojas, a resident of Sitio Nailan, Brgy. Cabi-an, Candoni, may serve as an eye opener to other NPA members, who are being used as pawns, while their leaders are enjoying luxurious lifestyles.

He reiterated the offer of the Philippine Army of treatment to those NPA members, who are sick, and other assistance under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program of the government, should they decided to surrender and abandon the armed struggle.

Lt. Col. Patricio Tomales, 15th Infantry Battalion commander, said that a company-sized group of troopers had been dispatched to the Cauayan hinterlands, to address the terroristic activities of the Armando Sumayang Command.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/March/09/topstory9.htm