Posted to Kalinaw News (Mar 17, 2021): Army troops nab NPA rebel in Iloilo clash
CAMP HERNANDEZ, Dingle, Iloilo – The Philippine Army’s 12th Infantry Battalion arrested a New People’s Army member following an armed encounter in Janiuay, Iloilo early morning of March 16, 2021.
Alias Bing, a member of NPA’s SYP Baloy Platoon, was collared following a 2-minute firefight, as soldiers were doing a pursuit operation at Barangay Dabong around 1:20 a.m. of Tuesday. The 66-year old woman rebel is said to be a resident of Barangay Araal, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.
She was caught seeking refuge from a house in Dabong village, as her other comrades left her and fled the area. Following the clash, the troops also seized a caliber .45 pistol with two magazines and 7 ammunition, components in making anti-personnel landmine and subversive documents with high intelligence value. Soldiers also recovered a hammock, two backpacks and a sling bag, assorted groceries, 10 meters electric wire, and personal belongings.
Bing and the confiscated items are now at the custody of Janiuay Police Station.
Brigadier General Marion Sison, 301st Infantry Brigade Commander believed that the incident would be a big blow to the NPA’s recruitment and extortion activities given that high-intelligence materials were seized.
On top of that, he revealed that the communist-terrorist group is planning to attack patrol bases, security forces and sabotage government projects in the area. He cited that the recoveries of items needed for staging attacks like components of anti-personnel landmine and electric wire would prove that the NPAs are out to sow terror.
“The CPP-NPA’s evil doings of making and using anti-personnel landmine like what they did on March 12 attack in Lambunao,” he said.
Sison was referring to the IED explosion that happened in Barangay Pughanan, Lambunao that wounded a PNP personnel and a village councilman.
He stressed that what the NPAs did was a blatant violation of Republic Act 9851 (Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity), which penalizes as a war crime the employment of means of warfare such as weapons, projectiles and material which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict.
But amidst this, “what’s new? For more than 5 decades, the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the NPA, have not done anything except to sow terror and instill fear among the people. But more than ever, the government’s resolved is ardent to end the local communist armed conflict,” Sison said. And despite and in spite of everything, he said the government would accept those who are willing to lay down their arms in pursuit of peace.
On March 29, the NPA would be celebrating its 52nd founding anniversary. They also marked their anniversary by conducting attacks on governments troops and installations and other key economic points.
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