Saturday, April 13, 2019

DNA samples confirm Abu Dar’s death — AFP

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Apr 14, 2019): DNA samples confirm Abu Dar’s death — AFP


Abu Dar.

MARAWI CITY, Philippines – The DNA sample that the military took from a body believed to be of a terrorist leader confirmed the death of Owayda Benito Marohomsar, also known as Abu Dar.
Colonel Romeo Brawner, commander of the Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade based in Marawi City, confirmed this on Sunday, April 14.

The confirmation came a month after Abu Dar was killed in a military’s pursuit operation at the boundaries of Tubaran and Pagayawan towns in Lanao del Sur.

Brawner said the confirmed death of Abu Dar would also mean the end of the Dawlah Islamiya Lanao group.

“This group is leader-centric. If you remember, when the two leaders were neutralized in the last part of the Marawi siege, President Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi from the terrorist influence,” Brawner had said in an earlier interview.

The two leaders referred to by Brawner were Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute who led the the attack in Marawi City in May 2017.

Abu Dar was part of the team that planned and staged the attack but slipped out of the battleground in the early part of the siege after he was wounded, according to Brawner.

Little was known of Marohomsar except that he was a native of Pagayawan town in Lanao del Sur and was believed to be leading the Islamic State-inspired Maute group at the time of his death.

READ: Abu Dar emerges as new Maute group leader – AFP

A military intelligence report said Abu Dar tried to return to the battleground with other fighters as reinforcement but did not succeed because of the military lockdown on Marawi City.

After the five-month battle that ended in October 2017, Abu Dar started to recruit and train new fighters, targeting young ones and orphans of the Marawi siege.

“He also recruited and trained those whose family members and relatives died during the siege… But they will not be able to continue now because Abu Dar is dead and their remnants, followers and supporters have already surrendered to the military and they are with us now,” Brawner added.

The military in Marawi and Lanao del Sur that neutralized Abu Dar is awaiting a copy of the DNA result from the Philippine National Police Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) and are expecting President Rodrigo Duterte to announce it to the public.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1106604/dna-samples-confirm-abu-dars-death-afp

Soldier killed, firearms recovered in Bukidnon clashes

From GMA News (Apr 13, 2019): Soldier killed, firearms recovered in Bukidnon clashes

A soldier from the Philippine Army was killed in a clash with suspected communist rebels in Bukidnon, while a number of firearms was recovered in a separate encounter in the province.

The military identified the slain soldier as Corporal Jonathan Solis, who belonged to the 88th Infantry Battalion that clashed with members of the New People's Army at Barangay Sta. Felomina in Quezon, Bukidnon last April 9.

The firefight lasted 15 minutes, according to the military.

Meanwhile, 16 firearms and two International Humanitarian Law banned landmines were retrieved by government troops in separate armed encounters in Bukidnon and nearby Arakan town in Cotabato from April 7 to 11.

On April 12, a platoon from the 3rd Infantry Battalion under Ltc Oscar Partuza recovered three M16 rifles believed to be left by fleeing communist rebels, while conducting clearing operation at Sitio Pulang Lupa at Barangay Sinuda in Kitaotao, Bukidnon.

In a firefight in Kitaotao's Brangay SInuda on April 9, the military also recovered five AK47 rifles, one International Humanitarian Law-banned improvised landmine, and landmine paraphernalia, two grenades, seven cellphones, five backpacks, and subversive documents.

The following day, the fleeing troop left two AK 47 rifle and AK 47 ammunition at Sitio Ngaran, Barangay Kipilas, Kitaotao.

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/regions/691165/soldier-killed-firearms-recovered-in-bukidnon-clashes/story/

AFP-CRS: Philippine Army activates 21st Scout Ranger Company

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 12, 2019): Philippine Army activates 21st Scout Ranger Company

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AFP-CRS: Karapatan pays release bond of captured CPP-NPA-NDF leader Zalde Cañete alias Jinggoy

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 12, 2019): Karapatan pays release bond of captured CPP-NPA-NDF leader Zalde Cañete alias Jinggoy

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AFP-CRS: CPP-NPA-NDF loses over 500 members, supporters in northern Negros

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 12, 2019): CPP-NPA-NDF loses over 500 members, supporters in northern Negros

The CPP-NPA-NDF lost more than 500 members and supporters in northern Negros following a series of surrenders since February. Residents of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental denounced the CPP-NPA-NDF during an indignation rally in Bacolod City and expressed their desire for a peaceful and rebel-free community last Sunday, April 7.



AFP-CRS: Junk CPP-NPA-NDF HOUSE FRONTS

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 11, 2019): Junk CPP-NPA-NDF HOUSE FRONTS

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AFP-CRS: Anti-terror, Counter-insurgency operations to continue during Holy Week

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 11, 2019): Anti-terror, Counter-insurgency operations to continue during Holy Week

Counter-terrorism and anti-insurgency operations will continue as the nation prepares for the annual observance of Holy Week.

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AFP-CRS: Sayyaf Terrorists Surrender

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook page (Apr 11, 2019): Abu Sayyaf Terrorists Surrender

A trusted aide of an Abu Sayyaf leader and another member of ASG surrendered to the military and voluntarily handed over their firearms in Patikul, Sulu last Monday, April 8.

“We welcome the surrender of terrorists in Sulu, but we will sustain our pursuit and offensives against hardcore terrorists that perpetrate violence in the area.”

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CPP/KM-DATAKO: Serve the Oppressed Masses, not the Ruling Few! Join the NPA!

KM-DATAKO propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 10, 2019): Serve the Oppressed Masses, not the Ruling Few! Join the NPA!

KABATAANG MAKABAYAN
DEMOKRATIKO A TIGNAYAN DAGITI AGTUTUBO ITI CORDILLERA 
(KM-DATAKO)
MT. PROVINCE
APRIL 10, 2019

The vitality and energy of the Filipino youth is wasted if used for senseless sacrifices such as the
protection of the interest of few oligarchs and the ruling class.

In the series of tactical offensives launched by the NPA to punish the AFP and PNP last March 29, March 31 and April 2 in Bauko and Tadian, Mt. Province , it is saddening that most of those wounded and killed are young and new officers of the PNP and Philippine Army. Spouting orders from behind their positions, senior high-ranking officials send out these young police and military officers to military operations without a care for their doom. The police force has been reduced to nothing but as an underling of the AFP, at their beck and call. What does this say for the future of the youth enlisting into the service of the reactionary armed force and the national police? Without any other choice, they have to carry out the cowardly command of their superiors to man the battlefronts, who cower behind their desks shielded by their bureaucratic positions.

Medalya ng Kagitingan were conferred to those killed and wounded police officers in the recent firefights with the NPA. But is there an honor in dying to protect this system that works only to the advantage of the ruling class of big landlords and bourgeois compradors while further plunging the people into poverty? Do we call it honor serving corrupt superiors who are lapdogs of oligarchs? To blindly obey orders is not the practice of discipline, it only suppresses critical thinking and reinforces feudal oppression. Medals and salutations mean nothing when the ancestral land and culture that represent our identity as national minority Igorots is exploited and reduced to barren ashes by the same monsters we serve. And woudn’t these medals and salutations mean we have excelled in the exploitation and oppression of our own people?

The worsening socio-economic situation is pushing the youth to seek easy employment. As the Filipino youth fall victims to the US-Duterte regime’s neoliberal policies and labor export, we are being deceived by the raise in monthly salary and combat pay in the police and armed forces. We, the Cordillera youth must realize that by recruiting scores of us into their ranks, they are turning us against our own tribes and people. The massive recruitment of Igorot youth into the AFP and PNP is their counter-revolutionary tactic in dividing the Igorot people, in inflicting violence and crushing the revolutionary people’s movement that truly espouses the interest of the national minority for self-determination and democracy.

The concentration of the fascist troops in our communities and their relentless combat operations cause nothing but upheavals. The police and military who are deceptively called to “to serve and protect” are actually the perpetrators of gross human rights violations on the village people. The energetic Igorot youth should denounce and never aspire to take up the mercenary and fascist tradition of the AFP-PNP institutions and their paramilitary goons in perpetrating oppression on our tribes and of the Filipino people.

The national minority youth should devout their energy, intellect and time towards advancing the people’s struggle for the respect of their collective rights to ancestral land and self-determination. The people of Cordillera are faced with the threat of losing their lands and livelihood to large scale mining and dam constructions. Draw lessons from the fact that even with the presence of multiple high-capacity dams in the region, the ordinary Igorot still pays high monthly electric bills. The minerals mined from our mountains fall into the hands of foreign corporations and their imperialist masters and we are left with scraps.

The youth of Cordillera should continue on the historical and vital role in the national minority’s struggle in defending our ancestral domains from imperialist plunder and putting an end to national oppression, up to the revolutionary armed struggle. Let us draw pride and inspiration from the historical fact that it was the Igorot youth that opened the revolutionary fronts in the Cordillera, continuing our forefathers’ fight against the attempts of foreign colonialists to control our ancestral lands. Our rich mountains and resources should be championed for national industrialization and for the benefit of all the Filipino people. The energetic youth is the bloodline of our society and it is only in the national democratic revolution that their potentials are realized and developed to serve the purpose of achieving genuine freedom and democracy until a socialist society is built.

The Kabataang Makabayan – Demokratiko a Tignayan Dagiti Agtutubo iti Cordillera (KM-DATAKO) in Mt. Province calls on the youth of Cordillera to dedicate their life in genuinely serving the oppressed national minority and Filipino masses!

Lead the national democratic revolution! Join the New Peoples Army!



https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/serve-the-oppressed-masses-not-the-ruling-few-join-the-npa/

CPP/KM-DATAKO: PAGSERBIAN TI MAIDADANES A MASA, SAAN A TI SUMAGMAMANO NGA AGTURAY! TUMIPON ITI NPA!

KM-DAKAKO propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 10, 2019): PAGSERBIAN TI MAIDADANES A MASA, SAAN A TI SUMAGMAMANO NGA AGTURAY! TUMIPON ITI NPA!

KABATAANG MAKABAYAN
DEMOKRATIKO A TIGNAYAN DAGITI AGTUTUBO ITI CORDILLERA (KM-DATAKO)
MT. PROVINCE
APRIL 10, 2019

Ti kinasaranta ken pigsa ti agtutubo a Pilipino ket masayang laeng nu maar-aramat iti awan-kaipapanan na a sakripisyo kas ti panangsalaknib ti interes dagiti sumagmamano a baknang ken agturay a dasig.

Iti serye ti taktikal nga opensiba nga insayangkat ti NPA tapno dusaen ti AFP ken PNP idi Marso 29, Marso 31 ken Abril 2 idiay Bauko ken Tadian, Mt. Province, makapaladingit a kaaduan kadagiti nasugatan ken natay ket agtutubo ken kabarbaro nga opisyales ti PNP ken Philippine Army. Manmandaran dagiti senior a nangangato nga opisyal dagitoy nga agtutubo nga opisyal ti pulisya ken militar kadagiti operasyon, uray maipeggad ti biag da. Ti puersa ti pulisya ket nagbalinen a natulnog a babaunen ti AFP. Ania ti masakbayan dagiti agtutubo iti panagserbi iti reaksyunaryo nga armado a puersa ken iti pulisya? Awan ti pagpilian da, nu saan nga agtungpal ti mandar a sumango ti gubatan, idinto a dagiti superyor da ket nakatugaw kadagiti burukratiko a puesto da.

Nasab-itan ti Medalya ng Kagitingan dagiti natay ken nasugatan nga opisyal ti pulisya iti naudi a labanan iti NPA. Ngem adda kadi dayaw iti matay iti panangsalaknib iti sistema nga agserserbi laeng kadagiti agtuturay a dasig ti dadakkel nga appo’t daga ken burgeya kumprador, kabayatan a ti umili ket lalo a maitentennag iti kinakurapay? Awagan tayo kadi a dayaw ti panagserbi kadagiti kurakot a superyor nga aso-so dagiti babaknang? Ti bulag a panagtungpal ti mandar ket saan a panangipakita iti disiplina. Laplapdan laeng daytoy ti kritikal a panangamiris ken patpatibkeren na ti pyudal a panangidadanes. Dagiti medalya ken pammadayaw ket awan mamaay na nu ti ansestral daga ken kultura a mangipabigbig iti identidad tayo kas nailian a minorya nga Igorot ket gamgamruden dagiti babaknang a pagserserbian tayo. Ken saan kadi a ti laeng kaipapanan dagitoy a medalya ken pammadayaw ket nagpakalaing tayo iti pananggundaway ken panangidadanes iti kailian tayo?

Ti kumarkaro a sosyo-ekonomiko a kasasaad ket mangidurduron kadagiti agtutubo nga agsapul ti nalaka a panggedan. Bayat a dagiti Pilipino nga agtutubo ket mabikbiktima kadagiti patakaran a neoliberal ken panangiluwas ti tegged ti rehimen US-Duterte, maal-allilaw tayo iti panagngato iti binulan a sueldo ken combat pay iti pulisya ken armado a puersa. Kasapulan a maamiris tayo nga agtutubo ti Cordillera a babaen ti panangrekrut da kadatayo, lablabanen tayo ti bukod tayo a tribu ken kakailian. Ti aduanan a panagrekrut kadagiti agtutubo nga Igorot iti AFP ken PNP ket isu ti kontra-rebolusyonaryo a taktika da iti panangguddua ti umili nga Igorot, iti panangranggas ken panangrebbek iti rebolusyonaryo a tignayan ti umili a pudno a mangitantandudo iti interes ti nailian a minorya para iti bukod a pangngeddeng ken demokrasya.

Ti konsentrasyon dagiti pasista a tropa kadagiti komunidad tayo ken dagiti awan-sarday nga operasyon kombat da ket awan ipapaay nu saan a riribuk. Ti pulisya ken militar a makaallilaw a maaw-awagan nga “agserbi ken mangsalaknib”, iti aktwal ket isuda ti nakaro a manglablabsing ti karbengan-tao dagiti umili iti komunidad. Rumbeng a kondenaren ken saan a kalikaguman dagiti napipigsa nga agtutubo nga Igorot a suroten ti mersenaryo ken pasista a tradisyon ti AFP-PNP ken dagiti paramilitar a grupo da iti panangidadanes kadagiti tribu tayo ken umili a Pilipino.

Rumbeng nga ipaay ti agtutubo a nailian a minorya ti pigsa, laing ken panawen da iti panangiyabante ti dangadang ti umili para iti pannakabigbig ti kolektibo a karbengan da iti ansestral a daga ken bukod a pangngeddeng. Sangsanguen ti umili ti Cordillera ti peggad iti panangagaw dagiti dadakkel a negosyo ti minas ken konstruksyon ti dam kadagiti dagdaga ken pagbiagan da. Makaadal tayo koma iti kinapudno nga uray nakapasdek dagiti nangato ti kapasidad na a dam iti rehiyon, ti ordinaryo nga Igorot ket agbaybayad latta ti nangato a kuryente iti binulan. Dagiti mineral a maminminas iti kabanbantayan tayo ket mapmapan laeng kadagiti gangannaet a kumpanya ken dagiti imperyalista nga among da, ken awan ti mabatbati kadatayo nu saan a dagiti maregmeg.

Rumbeng nga ituloy dagiti agtutubo ti Cordillera ti istorikal ken napateg a papel da iti dangadang ti nailian a minorya iti panangsalaknib ti ansestral a teritoryo manipud iti imperyalista a pananggamrud ken pananggibus iti nailian a panangidadanes, agingga iti rebolusyonaryo nga armado a dangadang. Pakadayawan ken pakaadawan tayo ti inspirasyon ti istorikal a kinapudno a dagiti agtutubo nga Igorot ti nanglukat kadagiti rebolusyonaryo a larangan iti Cordillera, a nangituloy ti dangadang dagiti kaapuan tayo iti gandat dagiti gangannaet a kolonyalista a kontrolen ti ansestral a dagdaga tayo. Ti nabaknang a rekurso dagiti kabanbantayan tayo ket kasapulan a maaywanan para iti nailian nga industrialisasyon ken pagbenepisyaran ti amin nga umili a Pilipino. Dagiti agkabanwag ket isu ti mangbibiag ti kagimongan ken babaen laeng iti nailian demokratiko a rebolusyon a dagiti potensyal da ket mapadur-as tapno agserbi iti pananggun-od ti pudno a waya-waya ken demokrasya aginga a maibangon ti sosyalista a gimong.

Aw-awagan ti Kabataang Makabayan – Demokratiko a Tignayan Dagiti Agtutubo iti Cordillera (KMDATAKO) ti Mt. Province dagiti kabataan ti Cordillera nga ipaay ti biag da iti pudno a panagserbi iti maidadanes a nailian a minorya ken masa a Pilipino!

Idauluan ti nailian demokratiko a rebolusyon! Tumipon iti New Peoples Army!

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/serve-the-oppressed-masses-not-the-ruling-few-join-the-npa/pagserbian-ti-maidadanes-a-masa-saan-a-ti-sumagmamano-nga-agturay-tumipon-iti-npa/

CPP/NPA-Quezon: 10 Dahilan Kung Bakit Dapat Pakamahalin Ang New People’s Arm

NPA-Quezon propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 11, 2019): 10 Dahilan Kung Bakit Dapat Pakamahalin Ang New People’s Army

CLEO DEL MUNDO 
SPOKESPERSON | NPA-QUEZON
(APOLONIO MENDOZA COMMAND)
APRIL 11, 2019

1. Ang NPA ay Disiplinado — magagalang, hindi nananakit o nagmumura sa masa

2. Ang NPA ay hindi kumukuha ng hindi kanila — nagbabayad nang tama para sa binili at isinasauli ang lahat ng hiniram

3. Ang NPA ay nagbabayad para sa anumang nasira — Noong 2018, sa dalawang magkahiwalay na ambus na isinagawa sa General Luna at Lopez, nadamay ang bubong ng traysikel na dumadaan at naka-ulang baka sa pinangyarihan ng ambus. Mapagpakumbabang humingi ng pasensya at nagbayad ng danyos ang NPA sa may-ari ng traysikel at baka.

4. Ang NPA ay Naglilingkod sa masa — Titser, organisador, doktor o medik ng magsasaka, barbero, dentista, tagagawa ng kubeta, nag-aayos ng bubong, taga-ula ng hayop, tumutulong at kasama ng mamamayan sa pagpapaunlad ng agrikultura.

5. Ang NPA ay hindi naninira ng pananim

6. Ang NPA ay hindi nagsasamantala sa kababaihan

7. Ang NPA ay hindi nagmamalupit sa mga bihag

8. Ang NPA ay Sumbungan ng bayan — matagal nang takbuhan ng inaapi’t mahirap ang NPA. Tinitiyak nila na mabilis, patas at makatarungan ang pagdinig sa mga kaso. Walang lagay-lagay o “palakasan.” Pinarurusahan agad ang mga mapang-abuso. Pero malawak ang pang-unawa ng NPA. Inuugat nila ang mga suliranin. Hindi tulad ng Oplan Tokhang na bumibiktima lamang ng mahihirap, sinisiguro ng NPA na ang parurusahan ay ang mga nagpapakana ng mga problema ng lipunan— mga sindikato at kanilang mga protektor sa matataas na pwesto sa AFP/PNP at sa pamahalaan.

9. Ang NPA ay hindi teroristang grupo — Isang pwersang nakikidigma ang NPA laban sa bulok na sistema. Pinagpapatuloy nila ang himagsikan nina Bonifacio at Katipunan sa pamamagitan ng Matagalang Digmang Bayan. Tinatanganan nila ang prinsipyong “kubkubin ang kalunsuran mula sa kanayunan.” Dagdag pa, hindi extortionist o mangingikil ang NPA.

10. Ang NPA ang tunay na sundalo magsasaka! – Isinusulong ng NPA rebolusyong agraryo para sa mga magsasaka. Sa minimum, ibaba ang upa sa lupa, at itaas ang kita ng magsasaka. Sa maksimum, libreng ipamahagi sa kanila ang mga lupang sakahan. Kaya ang uring magsasaka ang ‘di nasasaid na balon ng mga bagong Pulang mandirigma.

Ito ang mga dahilan kung bakit kinukupkop at minamahal ng mamamayan ang NPA. Itinuturing nila ang mga Pulang mandirigma bilang kanilang mga sariling kapamilya.



https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/10-dahilan-kung-bakit-dapat-pakamahalin-ang-new-peoples-army/

CPP/NPA-Mountain Province: Declare the AFP, PNP and DENR Persona non grata

NPA-Mountain Province propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 11, 2019): Declare the AFP, PNP and DENR Persona non grata

MAGNO UDYAW
NPA-MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
(LEONARDO PACSI COMMAND)
APRIL 11, 2019
After suffering from casualties on the series of tactical offensives launched by the NPA against them in Bauko and Tadian, Mt. Province last March, 29, March 31 and April 2, the AFP and PNP are out on the media and public streaming massive psywar to deceive and terrorize the people.

The AFP and PNP’s unrelenting and abominable lies and smear campaign against the NPA are sprawled on the local and national dailies, on the radio, TV and internet. These are desperate steps in covering their ignominy and pulling back the people’s sympathy on their defeat and pacifying them of their revolutionary fight against national oppression and for their self-determination and democracy.

The PNP Provincial Director of Mt. Province boasts of having mobilized the LGUs and people of Tadian and Bauko last April 9 and 10 respectively to “peace” rallies condemning the NPA’s alleged atrocities and declaring them persona non grata or intruders. Look who’s talking!

Of who should be declared persona non grata are the AFP, PNP and DENR. They are the ones intruding on the national minorities’ ancestral territories, for these to be served to the greedy capitalist mining and enegy companies and big loggers. It is the AFP that invades and encamps within the communities and sows terror and deception on the people. Their claim of “traumatized communities” in Mt. Province following the NPA’s tactical offensives emanates from the the AFP and PNP’s unbridled brutality. They force civilians to surrender as rebels, restrict their free conduct on their daily routine, fabricate trumpedup charges against innocent civilians, block the entry of their food supplies, bomb their communities and mining portals, confiscate their chainsaws, boards and hunting weapons. After the clashes, the Phil Army and PNP harassed some people of Tadian and Bauko, malevolently accusing them as NPAs.

At the back of these, it was through the overwhelming support of the people of Mt. Province that the spate of punishments delivered by the NPA on the fascist troops were made successful. On March 29, March 31 and April 2, the NPA effectively frustrated the Phil Army and PNP’s combined combat operations to coerce the people of Mt. Province on stopping their small logging and small mining activities. They only fool the public in claiming that the people declared the NPA “persona non grata” when it is the NPA whom the people relies on their fight against the oppressive policies of the reactionary government that deny and rob them of their ancestral lands and trample on their right to self-determination.

In disseminating through the media malicious intrigues such as the NPA infects water sources in Tadian and Bauko, and burn forests, fascist police and military troops only pass their filth on the People’s Army. On their operations in different parts of Cordillera, it is the Phil Army that pollutes the water, litter their wastes, bomb and burn forests.The NPA strictly adheres to and implements medical ethics, health and sanitation discipline as well as environmental protection policies which they inculcate on the masses. PRO-Cor Director Israel Dickson’s press realease that the NPA scattered its medical wastes only muddle the truth that it is them who obtained fatalities and wounds during the said firefights.

The PRO-Cor, the Phil Army and the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) in Cordillera drive the people into their ignorance by harping false information that the NPA violated Rules of War and the International Humanitarian Law in using Improvised Explosive Devices, when the Command-Detonated Explosive Devices that the NPA use in battles are not prohibited by international rules of war and humanitarian laws. In spreading falsehoods that they have recovered explosive devices, NPA cellphones, and flagrantly showing the people alleged videos and pictures of the Red fighters, the fascist troops only sow deceit and shock.

As the May 2019 polls is nearing, the AFP is fabricating “terror stories” and ridiculous lies to justify their combat operations and presence in the areas where the ruling political parties are securing their positions in the reactionary government. This is pursuant to the US-Duterte Regime’s objective in controlling this election, and ensure that its candidates and political parties would still dominate for its neoliberal policies and dictatorial agenda to persist. The military and police’s allegation that the NPA is extorting money from politicians is just an excuse for their presence in communities to conduct red-tagging and villification campaign on progressive and pro-people candidates and partylists. The AFP and PNP are out to thwart the people’s democratic movement to fight for their national democratic agenda this May 2019 elections and are aiming to prevent the progressive and pro-people candidates and partylists to have seats in the Congress and Senate.

Through the National Task Force (NTF) To End Insurgency, the AFP and PNP in Cordillera weld the RPOC and the Local Government Units and other government offices in Cordillera in implementing the ambitious campaign of the US-Duterte Regime in wiping out the CPP-NPA and the revolutionary movement, including the legal democratic people’s movement. The NTF is targeting the leaders of legal democratic people’s organizations and branding these as communist fronts for them to be subjects of terror attacts.

The US-Duterte Regime and its AFP and PNP minions in Cordillera are delusional if they think that these dirty tactics and dastardly manuevers will cow the peoples’ struggle. On the contrary, these only fuel the peoples’ anger and push them all the more to the armed revolution.

The Igorot peoples’ history is ablaze with revolutionary indignation against national oppression and the reactionary armed force’ s efforts to extinguish it with open fascism and duplicity will surely fail.#



https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/declare-the-afp-pnp-and-denr-persona-non-grata/

CPP/NPA-Mountain Province: Ideklarang Persona non grata ang AFP, PNP at DENR

NPA-Mountain Province propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 11, 2019): Ideklarang Persona non grata ang AFP, PNP at DENR

MAGNO UDYAW
NPA-MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
(LEONARDO PACSI COMMAND)
APRIL 11, 2019

Pagkatapos magtamo ng mga kaswalti sa serye ng taktikal na opensiba na inilunsad ng NPA laban sa kanila sa Bauko at Tadian, Mt. Province noong Marso 29, Marso 31 at Abril 2, lantad na lantad ang AFP at PNP sa midya at publiko na nagpapalaganap ng saywar upang linlangin at sindakin ang mamamayan.

Ang tuloy-tuloy at teribleng kasinungalingan at kampanyang paninira ng AFP at PNP sa NPA ay nagkalat sa mga lokal at nasyunal na pahayagan, sa radyo, telebisyon at internet. Ito ay mga desperadong hakbang upang pagtakpan ang kanilang kahihiyan at upang hatakin ang simpatiya ng mamamayan sa kanilang pagkatalo at upang patahimikin ang kanilang rebolusyonaryong paglaban sa pambansang pang-aapi at para sa kanilang sariling pagpapasya at demokrasya.

Ipinagmamalaki ng PNP Provincial Director ng Mt. Province na napakilos nila ang mga LGU at mamamayan ng Tadian at Bauko noong Abril 9 at 10 sa mga “peace rally” na kumokondena sa dimumao’y mga karahasan ng NPA at nagdedeklara sa mga ito bilang persona non grata o mga nanghihimasok. Sino kaya ang tunay na nanghihimasok?

Kung sino ang nararapat na ideklarang persona non grata ay ang AFP, PNP at DENR. Sila ang naghihimasok sa mga ansestral na teritoryo ng pambansang minorya, upang isilbi ito sa mga sakim na kapitalistang minahan, kumpanya sa enerhiya at malalaking logger. Ang AFP ang nanghihimasok at nagkakampo sa mga komunidad at naghahasik ng teror at panlilinlang sa taumbayan. Ang paratang nilang “na-trauma ang mga komunidad” ng Mt. Province pagkatapos ng mga taktikal na opensiba ng NPA ay nagmumula sa di-mabatang brutalidad ng AFP at PNP. Puersado nilang pinapasurender bilang rebelde ang mga sibilyan, hinahadlangan ang malayang pagkilos nila sa araw-araw, humahabi ng mga gawa-gawang kaso ng mga inosenteng sibilyan, hinahadlangan ang ng kanilang suplay na pagkain, binobomba ang komunidad at maliliit na minahan, kinukumpiska ang kanilang mga chainsaw at tabla at armas sa pangangaso. Pagkatapos ng mga sagupaan, nangharas ang Phil Army at PNP ng ilang masa sa Tadian at Bauko at inakusahan silang mga NPA.

Sa likod ng mga kasinungalingang ito, matagumpay na naipatupad ng NPA ang sunod-sunod na pamamarusa sa mga pasistang tropa dahil sa malaking suporta ng mamamayang ng Mt. Province. Noong Marso 29, Marso 31 at Abril 2, epektibong nabigo ng NPA ang pinagkumbinang operasyong kombat ng Phil Army at PNP upang puersahin ang mga mamamayan ng Mt. Province na itigil ang kanilang maliitang pangangahoy at pagmimina. Linoloko lamang nila ang publiko sa pagmamayabang na idineklara ng mamamayan ang NPA bilang “persona non grata”, gayong tanging ang NPA ang kanilang nasasandigan sa kanilang paglaban sa mga mapang-aping patakaran ng reaksyunaryong gobyerno na nagkakait at nang-aagaw sa kanilang ansestral na lupain at nangyuyurak sa kanilang karapatan sa sariling pagpapasya.

Sa pagpapalaganap sa midya ng mga malisyosong intriga gaya ng pagdudumi ng NPA sa rekursong tubig ng Tadian at Bauko, at panununog ng kagubatan, ipinapasa lamang ng pasistang pulisya at militar ang kanilang dumi sa Hukbong Bayan. Sa kanilang mga operasyon sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng Cordillera, ang Phil Army ang dumudumi sa katubigan, nagkakalat ng kanilang basura, nambobomba at nanununog ng kagubatan. Istriktong sumusunod at nagpapatupad ang NPA ng mga patakaran at etikang medikal, disiplina sa kalusugan at sanitasyon gayundin ng pangangalaga sa kapaligiran at itinuturo ang mga ito sa masa. Ang pahayag sa midya ni PRO-Cor Director Israel Dickson na ikinalat ng NPA ang kanilang basurang medikal ay nagpapalabo lamang sa katotohanan na sila ang namatayan at nasugatan.

Sa pagsisiwalat ng maling impormasyon na lumabag sa Rules of War at International Humanitarian Law ang NPA sa paggamit ng mga Improvised Explosive Devices, idinadamay lamang ng PRO-Cor, Phil Army at Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) sa Cordillera ang mamamayan sa kanilang ignoransya, gayong ang mga Command-Detonated Explosive Devices na ginagamit ng NPA sa mga digmaan ay hindi ipinagbabawal ng mga internasyunal na patakaran sa digmaan at internasyunal na makataong batas. Sa pagpapakalat ng mga kasinungalingang nakarekober sila ng ng mga eksplosibo, mga selpon ng NPA at pagpapalabas ng mga bidyo at mga larawan ng mga Pulang mandirigma, nananakot at nanlilinlang lamang ang mga pasistang tropa sa taumbayan.

Sa nalalapit na eleksyon ng Mayo 2019, naglulubid ang AFP ng mga “kahindik-hindik na istorya” at kakatwang kasinungalingan upang bigyang-katwiran ang kanilang mga operasyong kombat at presensya sa mga lugar kung saan ang mga naghaharing partidong pulitikal ay nagpapatatag ng kanilang posisyon sa reaksyunaryong gobyerno. Umaayon ito sa layunin ng rehimeng US-Duterte na kontrolin ang eleksyon at isiguradong mananaig ang kanyang mga kandidato at partido upang magpatuloy pa rin ang kanyang mga neoliberal na patakaran at diktadura. Ang paratang ng militar at pulisya na nagingikil ang NPA sa mga pulitiko ay rason na lamang nila upang maisagawa ang kanilang red-tagging o komunistang pamamaratang at kampanyang paninira sa mga progresibo at makamasang kandidato at partylist. Hahadlangan ng AFP at PNP ang demokratikong kilusan ng mamamayan na ipaglaban ang kanilang pambansa demokratikong adyenda ngayong eleksyon ng Mayo 2019 at layon nilang hindi paupuin ang mga progresibo at makabayang kandidato at partylist sa Kongreso at Senado.

Sa pamamagitan ng National Task Force (NTF) To End Insurgency, mahigpit na pinagkakaisa ng AFP at PNP ng Cordillera ang RPOC, ang mga lokal na gobyerno at iba pang ahensya ng gobyerno sa pagpapatupad ng ambisyosong kampanya ng Rehimeng US-Duterte na pawiin ang CPP-NPA at ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan, kabilang ang ligal na demokratikong kilusan ng mamamayan. Pinupuntirya ng NTF ang mga namumuno sa mga ligal na demokratikong organisasyon ng mamamayan at binabansagan ang mga itong komunistang prente upang gawing target ang mga ito ng teroristang atake.

Nananaginip ang Rehimeng US-Duterte at ang kanyang mga tutang AFP at PNP sa Cordillera, kung iniisip nilang ang ganitong mga maruruming taktika at maniobra nila ay makakahadlang sa pakikibaka ng mamamayan. Kabaliktaran nito, lalo lamang nagagatungan ang galit ng mamamayan at naitutulak sila sa armadong rebolusyon.

Naglalagablab ang kasaysayan ng mamamayang Igorot sa rebolusyonaryong paglaban sa pambansang pang-aapi, at lahat ng mga pagsisikap ng reaksyonaryong armadong puersa na apulahin ito sa pamamagitan ng lantad na pasismo at panlilinlang ay tiyak na mabibigo.#



https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/declare-the-afp-pnp-and-denr-persona-non-grata/ideklarang-persona-non-grata-ang-afp-pnp-at-denr/

CPP/NPA-Northern Negros: Military abuses in Escalante lie behind the false claims and pomposity of the 79th IBPA

NPA-Northern Negros propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 11, 2019): Military abuses in Escalante lie behind the false claims and pomposity of the 79th IBPA

CECIL ESTRELLA
NPA-NORTHERN NEGROS 
(ROSELYN PELLE COMMAND)
APRIL 11, 2019

Fascist attacks by elements of the 79th IB Philippine Army, PNP-SAF and RMF continue against the peasants, fishermen, and civilians of North Negros. Their so-called victories against the revolutionary movement are nothing but shameless pomp, along with the false claims they report as “accomplishments” in their fascist operations.

The arrest of two fishermen in Escalante City last April 5 is again paraded as an “accomplishment” by the AFP. Fabricated charges were filed against Francisco Laza, the chairman of the Danao River Fishermen Association (DARIFA), after the 79th IB planted a gun and grenade and tagged these ordinary folk as NPAs. The soldiers’ brazen tactic of planting falsified “NPA anniversary banners” on Laza has reached the attention of the Roselyn Jean Pelle Command (RJPC). This truly is a shameless, shameless justification for Laza’s warantless and baseless arrest.

The 79th IBPA, PNP-SAF and RMF have spread these stinking lies to whitewash the grave human rights abuses against the residents, fisherfolk and civilians whose homes were ransacked by government troopers in Hacienda Gaylan, Barangay Langub, Escalante City on April 5, 2019.

Based on the investigation of the RJPC-NPA, these lying fascist elements of the 79th IB, PNP-SAF and RMF boast that they captured Laza in a COMELEC checkpoint in the same barangay. In addition to our close investigation, it was known that the PNP-Escalante led by its OIC, PLtCol Nacerato Sabando Jr collaborated with the soldiers and special police forces in inventing the scenario that would justify Laza’s illegal arrest. After having gobbled their fill of dried fish and chickens that they stole from the masses, and for them to cover their humiliating abuses of ranscaking homes in Hacienda Gaylan from the public eye, Sabando collaborated with these government troopers in conjuring this drama of a checkpoint by the 79th IB, PNP-SAF and RMF, led by their platoon leader PLt John Paul Tabujara and their intel operative minion 1st Lt Paul Ryan Aceboque. Shameless lying thieves! The people will never forget your crimes and abuses.

Also, the 79th IB constantly brags of the so-called NPAs, so-called unit militia members, and the ordinary folk they tag as supporters of the revolutionary movement that have “surrendered” to the government. They parade these “surrenderees” every week at their HQ in Barangay Bato, Sagay City, the latest of which, 20 civilians were again made to “surrender” on Marso 30, 2019. The attacks against civilians and communities are intensifying along with their money-making schemes under the Enhanced Local Integration Program or E-CLIP corruption racket of the military and the fascist US-Duterte regime.

The RJPC and the whole revolutionary movement in Negros warn these anti-people, rotten elements in the reactionary government that we shall not think twice in heeding the people’s demand to grant revolutionary justice for victims of military abuses and for the oppressed and exploited masses.

The RJPC-NPA calls on the people to stand their ground and defy the treacherous campaign of the military in coercing them to “surrender”or “clear their names.” Ordinary civilians have no reason to “clear their names” with this rotten and criminal Duterte government. This deceptive modus can be used against them in the course of Duterte’s barbarous attacks against the people. Instead, Duterte, Arevalo, Bulalacao, Sinas and other fascist criminals must face the people and answer for their crimes of EJK, tokhang and massacres here in Negros.

The people must forward their complaints to the genuine people’s democratic government in the guerilla zones because your beloved people’s army, the New People’s Army, is ever ready to defend the people against the abusive fascist criminals here in Negros.





https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/military-abuses-in-escalante-lie-behind-the-false-claims-and-pomposity-of-the-79th-ibpa/

CPP/NPA-Sorsogon: Pagnanakaw at pananakot ng 31st IB PA sa Sorsogon

NPA-Sorsogon propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Apr 13, 2019): Pagnanakaw at pananakot ng 31st IB PA sa Sorsogon

SAMUEL GUERRERO
NPA-SORSOGON 
(CELSO MINGUEZ COMMAND)
APRIL 12, 2019

Mariing naming kinukundena ang pinakabagong paglabag sa karapatang tao na ginawa ng mga ahente ng estado laban sa mga residente ng Brgy. San Juan Daan, Bulan, Sorsogon.

Bandang 5:30 ng hapon nitong Abril 8 nang dumating sa sentro ng baryo ang mga armadong kalalakihang sakay ng 2 van, 2 truck at ilang motorsiklo.

Pwersahan nilang pinasok ang mga bahay nina Rogelio Gueta, Cadit Bandola, Lodjuena Magtibay, Josie Gibaga, Rosana Gojo, Teresita Gueta, Erlinda Gueta, at Agnes Hernandez. Ikinulong ang mga residente sa kanilang mga bahay at tinutukan ng baril habang naghahalughog. Tinangay ng mga sundalo ang ilang alahas at aabot sa P800,000 halaga ng pera mula sa mga biktima. Pinasok din ang bahay ng mag-amang Juan at Jonathan Geocado at ginapos sila ng mga sundalo at ninakaw ang isang itak na gamit nila sa hanapbuhay.

Matapos ang panghahalughog ay nagpaputok ng mga baril ang mga salarin at agad na umalis sa baryo.

Ang garapalang paglabag na ito ay ginawa ng mga pasistang sundalo ng 31st IBPA sa ngalan ng Oplan Kapayapaan at Memorandum Order No. 32 ng rehimeng US-Duterte. Mga sibilyan ang kanilang ginigipit at pinagnanakawan sa harap ng kabiguan nilang pigilin ang paglakas ng rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa Sorsogon at iba pang panig ng bansa.





https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/pagnanakaw-at-pananakot-ng-31stib-pa-sa-sorsogon/