CAMP EVANGELISTA, Cagayan de Oro City – One (1) AK47, one (1) M16, and two (2) homemade shotguns were captured when Community Support Program Teams of the 3rd Special Forces (Arrowhead) Battalion under the 4th Infantry (DIAMOND) Division, Philippine Army clashed with a no. of Communists NPA Terrorists (CNTs) in Sitio Panukmuan, Diatagon, Lianga on July 20, 2020.
Deployed in the hinterland area of Lianga town in the province of Surigao del Sur, the CSP team of 3SFBn whose main objective is to provide support to the local government unit of the mentioned town exchanged gunfires with the CNTs when government forces conducted prophylactic patrol in the vicinity of the tribal community.
The clashed lasted for about ten-minutes after which fleeing terrorists joined in the group of locals making them a human shield to evade the pursuing troops.
Recovered also in the firefight scene were assorted magazines, live ammunitions, six (6) mobile phones, one (1) PC tablet, powerbank, documents and personal belongings.
According to Hawudon Jumar Bucales, Lianga Indigenous People Mandatory Representative “We call on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC) and other rights groups to condemn in the highest terms and take action against Communist NPA Terrorists who used the IP community as human shields”.
“Communist NPA terrorists infiltrates our IP communities to force my tribesmen to become members of their underground mass organizations, politico-military structure and eventually, party members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and National Democratic Front (NDF) in order to sustain the CNTs in the far-flung sitios,” Bucales, added.
“The CSP teams were deployed to assist the LGUs in delivering the basic services that our IP brothers need. We will not permit these terrorists to hamper the government’s effort in sustaining peace in Surigao del Sur. With the newly signed Anti Terrorism Act, we will crashed these terrorists out,” MGen Andres C Centino, the 4ID Chief said.
The NPA, the armed wing of CPP and NDF, is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and was declared as a designated / identified terrorist organization under the Philippines’ Republic Act No. 1016.
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