CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna: A total of 45 Communist Party of Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) members, 19 of them female, and members of the Milisyang Bayan, Kontak, Baseng Masa and Organisadong Masa under the Komiting Larangan Girilya Cesar (KLGC), Sub-Region Military Area (SRMA-4A ) surrendered to the Police Regional Office Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon).
On Friday, 33 of them under KLGC, SRMA-4A all operating in the provinces of Laguna, Rizal and Quezon surrendered to PRO-4A Regional Intelligence Division and the military.
Another 12 rebels from General Nakar, Quezon surrendered on March 30. At about 9 p.m. on the same day, Brig. Gen. Edward Carranza, Police Regional Office Calabarzon regional director, said the surrenderers were tribal chieftains and members of Samahang Dumagat, an ethnic group based in the mountainous range of Laguna, Rizal and Quezon that the NPA infiltrated and utilized as advance post in the mountains.
Their peaceful surrender was made possible through several meetings and dialogue in cooperation with the chieftain or punong tribo of their respective areas in support of the government program.
All the surrenderers, their documents, firearms, ammunition and explosives are now under the custody of the Regional Special Operations Unit 4A for documentation and safekeeping.
Carranza said the initial debriefing revealed that most of the surrenderers were utilized to monitor the presence and activities of the government forces in their locality. They also served as escort, guide, runner and their homes were used as safe houses of the CPP-NPA terrorists in case of emergencies. Most of them were part-time guerrilla fighters and part-time farmers. They played the dual role of military pro tector and political enforcer in their respective barangay (villages).
“Ka Cyrus,” one of the surrenderers revealed that in 2009 they assaulted Panukulan Police Station in Quezon. They were also involved in an ambush of Special Action Force troops in Antipolo City that left four dead and five captured including two wounded personnel.
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Ka Cyrus was a former NPA platoon leader. He said that in 2006, he had an intimate relationship with a certain Ka Sophia from UP Diliman who gave birth in 2008, but did not return.
PRO 4A was coordinating with the Department of Interior and Local Government and Department of Social Welfare and Development for the surrendered rebels to undergo processing to avail assistance under the Enhance Comprehensive Local Integration Program.
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