From the Visayan Daily News (Apr 24, 2023): Top NPA leader killed in gun battle (By GILBERT P. BAYORAN)
Rogelio Posadas, tagged by the Philippine Army as secretary of the Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros/Cebu/Bohol/Siquijor.
The long arm of the law finally caught up also with elusive top rebel leader in Visayas, Rogelio Posadas.
The death of Posadas, alias Ka Putin, tagged by the Armed Forces as the secretary of the Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros/Cebu/Bohol/Siquijor, was confirmed by the Philippine Army confirmed yesterday, six months after the death of Romeo Nanta, alias Ka Juanito Magbanua, regional commander of the New People’s Army in Negros Island, in a Himamaylan City gun battle.
Brig. Gen. Orlando Edralin, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, disclosed that two days after his group figured in armed skirmishes with 94th and 62nd Infantry Battalions on April 20 in the boundary of Binalbagan and Isabela, Posadas was positively identified by his former comrades who surrendered earlier to the Philippine Army.
Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, AFP Visayas Command chief, said justice is served to the victims of Posadas.
With the death of Posadas, Arevalo said the CPP-NPA-NDF in Western and Central Visayas is now leaderless, with no clear operational direction on the ground.
This will further contribute to the leadership vacuum that their aching organization continues to suffer, he stressed.
Aside from the cadaver of Posadas left behind by fleeing comrades at the encounter site, Army soldiers also recovered two pistols with magazines and ammunitions, two blasting caps, one backpack, personal belongings, assorted medicines, and subversive documents, including extortion letters.
The long arm of the law finally caught up also with elusive top rebel leader in Visayas, Rogelio Posadas.
The death of Posadas, alias Ka Putin, tagged by the Armed Forces as the secretary of the Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros/Cebu/Bohol/Siquijor, was confirmed by the Philippine Army confirmed yesterday, six months after the death of Romeo Nanta, alias Ka Juanito Magbanua, regional commander of the New People’s Army in Negros Island, in a Himamaylan City gun battle.
Brig. Gen. Orlando Edralin, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, disclosed that two days after his group figured in armed skirmishes with 94th and 62nd Infantry Battalions on April 20 in the boundary of Binalbagan and Isabela, Posadas was positively identified by his former comrades who surrendered earlier to the Philippine Army.
Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, AFP Visayas Command chief, said justice is served to the victims of Posadas.
With the death of Posadas, Arevalo said the CPP-NPA-NDF in Western and Central Visayas is now leaderless, with no clear operational direction on the ground.
This will further contribute to the leadership vacuum that their aching organization continues to suffer, he stressed.
Aside from the cadaver of Posadas left behind by fleeing comrades at the encounter site, Army soldiers also recovered two pistols with magazines and ammunitions, two blasting caps, one backpack, personal belongings, assorted medicines, and subversive documents, including extortion letters.
Posadas succeeded former rebel priest Frank Fernandez, who was captured with his wife several years ago in Luzon, as KR – NCBS secretary, and was responsible for various atrocities, including assassinations, kidnapping, arson and other forms of violence perpetrated against innocent civilians.
Among the atrocities he committed were the attack and bombing of Takenaka Itochu Joint Ventures and Hanjin Corporation at the Bacolod-Silay International Airport in 2006; the burning of transloading station of Lopez Sugar Central and Victorias Milling Company transloading stations in Toboso, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, ambush of a civilian-loaded canter utility service vehicle, killing three civilians and wounding three others, and the bombing of Globe cellsite also in Toboso, in 2009; bombing of VMC pump station in Victorias City in 2010; according to a statement issued by Army’s 3rd Infantry Division headed by Maj. Gen. Marion Sison.
Edralin, who supervises the 62nd and 94IB soldiers in central Negros, said the cadaver of Posadas has yet to be claimed by his family and relatives at a funeral parlor in Binalbagan.
The same infantry units also neutralized Nanta, who died in an encounter in Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan City, in October last year.
Nanta and Posadas were among the top leaders of KR- NCBS in Visayas.
Arevalo also said that the death of Posadas is a crushing defeat to the CPP-NPA-NDF, adding “this will clearly manifest the decimation of the terrorist group in the Visayas region, and will send a strong message to their already demoralized ranks that they have no safe haven to hide, and that government forces continue to gain ground on them.”
CPP BELIES MILITARY CLAIMS
A statement issued by the Communist Party of the Philippines accused the military of killing Posadas, who the CPP claims a consultant of the National Democratic Front.
Citing a report of the National Democratic Front – Negros, CPP claimed that Posadas and his companion, alias Ka Mikmik, and two motorcycle drivers were abducted on April 19, in Brgy. Camang Camang, Isabela, Negros Occidental.
In a statement issued by the Regional Task Force –ELCAC Legal Cooperation Cluster 6, Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales said that CPP-NP-NDF has a standing propaganda policy and patter to call their leaders NDF consultants, especially if arrested, or killed in engagement with state security forces.
https://visayandailystar.com/top-npa-leader-killed-in-gun-battle/
Among the atrocities he committed were the attack and bombing of Takenaka Itochu Joint Ventures and Hanjin Corporation at the Bacolod-Silay International Airport in 2006; the burning of transloading station of Lopez Sugar Central and Victorias Milling Company transloading stations in Toboso, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, ambush of a civilian-loaded canter utility service vehicle, killing three civilians and wounding three others, and the bombing of Globe cellsite also in Toboso, in 2009; bombing of VMC pump station in Victorias City in 2010; according to a statement issued by Army’s 3rd Infantry Division headed by Maj. Gen. Marion Sison.
Edralin, who supervises the 62nd and 94IB soldiers in central Negros, said the cadaver of Posadas has yet to be claimed by his family and relatives at a funeral parlor in Binalbagan.
The same infantry units also neutralized Nanta, who died in an encounter in Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan City, in October last year.
Nanta and Posadas were among the top leaders of KR- NCBS in Visayas.
Arevalo also said that the death of Posadas is a crushing defeat to the CPP-NPA-NDF, adding “this will clearly manifest the decimation of the terrorist group in the Visayas region, and will send a strong message to their already demoralized ranks that they have no safe haven to hide, and that government forces continue to gain ground on them.”
CPP BELIES MILITARY CLAIMS
A statement issued by the Communist Party of the Philippines accused the military of killing Posadas, who the CPP claims a consultant of the National Democratic Front.
Citing a report of the National Democratic Front – Negros, CPP claimed that Posadas and his companion, alias Ka Mikmik, and two motorcycle drivers were abducted on April 19, in Brgy. Camang Camang, Isabela, Negros Occidental.
In a statement issued by the Regional Task Force –ELCAC Legal Cooperation Cluster 6, Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales said that CPP-NP-NDF has a standing propaganda policy and patter to call their leaders NDF consultants, especially if arrested, or killed in engagement with state security forces.
https://visayandailystar.com/top-npa-leader-killed-in-gun-battle/
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