From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 7, 2020): NPA logistics officer, wife yield in Zambo Norte (By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.)
A ranking communist New People’s Army (NPA) member and his wife have surrendered to military authorities in Zamboanga Sibugay, a military official said Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Manaros Boransing, commander of the 97th Infantry Battalion, identified the surrenderers only as "Ka Mikoy," a logistics officer, and his wife as "Ka Janine".
Boransing said they fetched the couple Monday in the Zamboanga Sibugay town of Imelda after they abandoned their post to surrender to the authorities.
“Their relatives informed us that the NPA couple called them through cell phone and said they just want to voluntarily surrender after they heard the news that their former leader, alias Ka War-War and other surrenderers are in good condition and humanely treated by the Army,” Boransing said.
“Upon confirming their exact location, our troops together with their trusted relatives and former rebels proceeded to their location and rescued them and immediately brought them to our camp (in Leon Postigo, Zamboanga del Norte),” he added.
The NPA couple admitted that they decided to surrender because of hunger and exhaustion. They added that their life was made difficult within the rebel movement as they were not allowed to raise a family of their own, Boransing said.
He said the couple was also threatened by their comrades that the military would kill them once they surrender, which turned out to be NPA's "false propaganda".
The couple used to operate under Guerilla Front-Feliciano Alpha of the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC).
Boransing said the surrenderers reunited with their families after a decade of working for the rebel movement.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1117806
Lt. Col. Manaros Boransing, commander of the 97th Infantry Battalion, identified the surrenderers only as "Ka Mikoy," a logistics officer, and his wife as "Ka Janine".
Boransing said they fetched the couple Monday in the Zamboanga Sibugay town of Imelda after they abandoned their post to surrender to the authorities.
“Their relatives informed us that the NPA couple called them through cell phone and said they just want to voluntarily surrender after they heard the news that their former leader, alias Ka War-War and other surrenderers are in good condition and humanely treated by the Army,” Boransing said.
“Upon confirming their exact location, our troops together with their trusted relatives and former rebels proceeded to their location and rescued them and immediately brought them to our camp (in Leon Postigo, Zamboanga del Norte),” he added.
The NPA couple admitted that they decided to surrender because of hunger and exhaustion. They added that their life was made difficult within the rebel movement as they were not allowed to raise a family of their own, Boransing said.
He said the couple was also threatened by their comrades that the military would kill them once they surrender, which turned out to be NPA's "false propaganda".
The couple used to operate under Guerilla Front-Feliciano Alpha of the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC).
Boransing said the surrenderers reunited with their families after a decade of working for the rebel movement.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1117806
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