CPP/NPA-Rizal: 6 na elemento ng PNP-SAF sa Antipolo City, sugatan sa pananambang ng NPA-Rizal!

New People's Army-Rizal propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Feb 18): 6 na elemento ng PNP-SAF sa Antipolo City, sugatan sa pananambang ng NPA-Rizal!



Macario “Ka Karyo” Sakay, Spokesperson
NPA-Rizal (Narciso Antazo Aramil Command)

18 February 2018

Matagumpay na nailunsad Bagong Hukbong Bayan sa ilalim ng Narciso Antazo Aramil Command (NAAC–NPA- Rizal) ang kontra-atake laban sa nag-ooperasyong tropa ng SAF-PNP sa Sitio San Joseph, San Jose, Antipolo City, Rizal. Ganap na alas 6:40 kaninang umaga, Pebrero 18, nang tambangan ng isang platun ng NPA-Rizal ang 2 sasakyang naka-convoy na may lulan na 28 miyembro at opisyal ng pulisya na nagresulta sa malubhang pagkakasugat ng 6 at pagkasawi ng dalawang elemento ng SAF-PNP habang walang anumang kaswalti sa mga miyembro ng NPA-Rizal.

Ang naambus na mga pulis ay bahagi ng pinagsamang pwersa ng SAF-PNP at 2nd ID-PA na mahigit nang 2 linggong naglulunsad ng kontra-insurhensyang operasyon na sa mga bulubunduking baryo ng Antipolo City, mga bayan ng Baras, Rodriguez at Tanay, Rizal para isagawa ang pangarap ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte na durugin ang NPA at buong rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa ilalim ng ipinatutupad nitong kontra-insurhensyang dinisenyo ng Estados Unidos na OPLAN KAPAYAPAAN at upang pigilan at takutin ang mga mamamayang lumalaban sa mga kontra-mamamayan at kontra-katutubong proyekto ng gobyernong Duterte na WAWA-VIOLAGO DAM sa Antipo City at Rodriguez, LAIBAN DAM sa Tanay, ATN-SOLAR ENERGY PROJECT sa Rodriguez, WIND POWER PROJECT sa Pililia, Rizal na magreresulta sa malawakang pangangamkam ng lupa at pagpapalayas sa mga magsasaka at katutubong Dumagat. at Remontado. Ang mga operasyong pulis-militar na ito ay pumipinsala sa buhay at ari-arian ng mga katutubong Dumagat at Remontado, mga setler at mga magsasaka sa lalawigan ng Rizal.

Ang taktikal na opensibang ito ay inilunsad bilang pagdepensa sa sarili ng BHB at ng mamamayan na walang habas na inaatake ng mga pasistang tropa ng PNP-AFP at itinutulak ng Rehimeng US-Duterte na walang nararapat gawin kundi ang magiting na lumaban. Tugon din ito ng BHB sa deklarasyon ng Rehimeng US-Duterte sa Martial Law sa Mindanao, sa walang habas na paninira at pananalakay ng pasistang rehimeng US Duterte sa kababaihan, sa mamamayan at sa Rebolusyonaryong Kilusan. Hindi hahahayan ng BHB na basta na lamang barilin ng AFP-PNP ang ari ng mga kasamang babae ng BHB ng walang laban. Bago nila mabaril ang sinumang kasama babae ay tiyak na makakatikim ang AFP-PNP na magiting na paglaban ng amasona at babaeng NPA.

Bahagi rin ang taktikal na opensibang ito sa mga tugon ng CPP-NPA para biguin ang atake ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte laban sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan at ambag na rin ito sa malawak na kilusan ng mamamayan para patalsikin ang rehimeng US-Duterte. Habang nagpapakasasa ang Rehimeng US-Duterte at kanyang mga alipores sa pandarambong sa kaban ng bayan at sa pagpataw ng iba’t ibang pahirap sa mamamayan tulad ng dagdag na buwis dulot ng TRAIN, jeepney phase-out, paglaganap ng kontraktwalisasyon, pagkatuta sa imperyalistang US at China kasabay ng planong pagkonsolida nito sa kamay na bakal na pamumuno sa pamamagitan ng pagbabago ng konstinusyon ng Pilipinas (Cha-Cha) sa tabing ng panawagang pederalismo ay lalong dumarami ang mga mamamayan na namumulat at naghahangad na patalsikin na ang rehimeng US-Duterte. Ang BHB ay gagampanan din ang papel nito na maglunsad ng malaganap na mga taktikal na opensiba para ipagtanggol ang sarili at interes ng mamamayan.

Ikinagagalak ng mga mamamayan ng Lalawigan ng Rizal ang taktikal na opensibang ito. Para sa kanila ay nabigyan din sila ng katarungan sa matagal ng dinaranas na pandarahas ng mga militar at pulisya na pumipinsala sa kanilang buhay at ari-arian. Matagumpay na nailunsad ito sa mainit at malawak na suporta ng mamamayan na hindi kailanman kinakagat ang alok na pabuya ni Duterte na P25,000.00 piso kada mapapatay na NPA. Alam ng mamamayan hindi kailanman mapapatay ang isang mandirigma ng NPA na determinado at tunay na naglilingkod sa sambayanan na handang ialay ang buhay para sa interes ng sambayanan. Isang katotohanan na mas marami ang mga mamamayan na naghaharap ng reklamo sa NPA laban sa mga pwerng militar at pulisya na nang-aabuso sa mamamayan at maramihang pumapatay sa mga mahihirap na pinaghihinalaan adik at tagatulak ng droga habang pinprotektahan ang mga mayayamang druglord at adik tulad ng promotor sa pagpasok ng shabu na nakalabas sa Bureau of Customs (BOC) na nagkakahalaga ng 6.4 Bilyong piso na kinasangkutan ng anak ni Duterte na si Paolo “Pulong” Duterte at manugang nito na si Atty. Manases Carpio na asawa ni Mayor Sara Duterte ng Davao City.

Alam ng mamamayan kung sino ang tunay na hukbo ng mamamayan na kanilang maasahan. Alam nilang gaano man kahaba ang listahan ng ginagawang pang-aapi at pandaras ng AFP-PNP at mga lansakang taga-abuso sa karapatang pantao ay aabutin sila ng mahabang kamay ng rebolusyonaryong kilusan sa pangungunan ng CPP-NPA. Ang NPA ang tanging armadong hukbo sa Pilipinas na dadamay at magtatanggol sa interes ng mamamayang Pilipino laban sa pananalakay at pang-aapi ng pasistang rehimeng US-Duterte.

MABUHAY NG BAGONG HUKBONG BAYAN!
MABUHAY ANG PARTIDO KOMUNISTA NG PILIPINAS!
MABUHAY ANG SAMBAYANANG PILIPINO!

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20180218-6-na-elemento-ng-pnp-saf-sa-antipolo-city-sugatan-sa-pananambang-ng-npa-rizal

CPP/NPA-ST: AFP, numero unong rapist at lumalabag sa karapatang-tao ng mamamayan

New People's Army-Southern Tagalog propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Feb 18): AFP, numero unong rapist at lumalabag sa karapatang-tao ng mamamayan



Jaime “Ka Diego” Padilla, Spokesperson
NPA-Southern Tagalog (Melito Glor Command)

18 February 2018

Mariing kinukundina ng Melito Glor Command – New People’s Army Southern Tagalog ang mga bastos at walang modo na pahayag ng isang Tenyente Bobis ng 85th Infantry Battalion sa mga komunidad sa Quezon kung saan ipinagmamayabang niyang “yayariin” si Comrade Kathryn kapag nakita ito sa gubat.

Malinaw ang pambubuyo ni Duterte sa kanyang mersenaryong tropang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) at mga grupong paramilitar na lumabag sa bawat ilulunsad na operasyong militar at pulis. Higit na pinapatunayan ng gobyernong Duterte at AFP-PNP na sila ang numero unong rapist, lumalabag sa karapatan ng mamamayan sa kanayunan at lumalabag sa pandaigdigang makataong batas na sinang-ayunan ng reaksyunaryong Government of the Republic of the Philippines sa United Nations.

Kung gayon, lantad na lantad na sa mamamayan ang pagiging terorista ng estado at AFP-PNP laban sa mamamayang Pilipino hindi lamang sa mga kababaihang mandirigma ng NPA. Mahaba ang listahan ng panghahalay at kasong kriminal ng AFP at PNP sa mamamayan at sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan tulad ng panggagahasa at pang-aagaw ng mga asawa sa komunidad at ang panghahalay sa mga bangkay, hors de combat at nahuhuling babaeng Pulang mandirigma tulad ng paghubad sa bangkay ng mga babaeng NPA ng Nasugbu 14 noong Nobyembre 2017.

Dapat ipaglaban at ipagtanggol ng mamamayan ang kanilang mga lehitimo at demokratikong karapatan laban sa pandarahas ng reaksyunaryong estado. Sama-sama nating ibagsak ang isang pasista at teroristang rehimen upang itayo ang isang gobyerno na tunay na magtatanggol sa interes ng mamamayan, gumagalang sa karapatan ng kababaihan at ipinagkakaloob ang mga sosyo-ekonomikong kahilingan ng mamamayan.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20180218-afp-numero-unong-rapist-at-lumalabag-sa-karapatang-tao-ng-mamamayan

CPP/NPA-SM: Duterte’s war against Lumad intensifies in Southern Mindanao, NPA launches counter-attacks

New People's Army-Southern Mindanao propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Feb 19): Duterte’s war against Lumad intensifies in Southern Mindanao, NPA launches counter-attacks



Rigoberto F. Sanchez, Spokesperson
NPA-Southern Mindanao

19 February 2018
Press Release

Amid his mercenary offer of “silver” and dubious development, wooing and dining so-called surrendered persons and vulgar slurs against women revolutionaries, GRP Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has intensified his all-out war against indigenous peoples as the Eastern Mindanao Command-AFP deployed its foot soldiers and excess war materiel from Marawi City siege in Southern Mindanao.

The dictator has made good his promise to attempt to obliterate dissent, not by winning against the NPA but by foisting superior combat force in remote indigenous people’s villages in the region. Placed under martial rule are the IP populated barangays of Talaingod, Davao del Norte; Paquibato, Marilog, Baguio and Toril districts in Davao City; Monkayo, New Bataan, Compostela and Maragusan towns of Compostela Valley; Magpet and Arakan in North Cotabato; and Boston, Cateel, Tarragona and Caraga towns of Davao Oriental.

Since January, seventeen (17) Army battalions commanded over 300 military detachments and 14 battalion and 4 brigade headquarters all over the region. All Army units bear their standard procedure: recruitment of CAFGU paramilitary forces and agitating Lumad to wage pangayaw; forcing civilians to “surrender”; threats of extra-judicial killings, forced evacuations, warning and harassment of Lumad leaders; threats of bombing, food blockade, intimidation of motorcycle drivers and vilification of communities as NPA supporters.

Affected in this combat-psywar campaign are the Manobo villages and sub-villages in Talaingod such as Tibi-tibi, Cabadiangan, Paiton, Mibolo, Palma Gil, Sto. Niño, Pantaron, Minopal, Nasilaban, Mirato, Nabunturan, Saso, Km. 18, Opaw, Igang, JBL, Dulyan, Km. 14, Km. 25, Km. 31 and Tibukag. In Paquibato, Davao City: the Matigsalog Lumad barangays of Colosas, Malabog, Salapawan, Mapula, Tapak and other barangays of Lumiad, Paquibato proper, Paradise Embak, and Pandaitan; in Marilog District: IP barangays of Salumay, Marilog, Gumitan, Tambobong, Malamba and the mixed populations of Magsaysay, Suwawan, Salaysay and Tamugan; in Toril District, barangays Tungkalan and Barakayo; in Baguio District, in Tamayong and Carmen.

In Davao Oriental, the Mandaya villages in Cateel: Taytayan, Malibago, Maglahos, Aliwagwag and Mainit; Brgy. Tubaon in Tarragona and of the Dibabawons in Brgy. Simolao in Boston; and in Compostela Valley, in Compostela barangays of Panansalan and Ngan, and of the Mansakas of Brgy. Langgawisan and Lahi in Maragusan where at least 1,000 residents were forced by the military to evacuate following an NPA sighting on February 5.

In the IP communities of Caraga town, the Army’s 67th IB and the paramilitary MANADU forces threatened to bomb and massacre 100 Mandaya families in Sitio Catagbakan and Sitio Panlalaisan, Brgy. Pichon, thus forcing them to leave their homes and farms and stay at the village center starting last February 12.

In North Cotabato, the newly-deployed 15th IB in Arakan town has been terrorizing the Manobo communities of Brgy. Tumanding, Malibatuan, Maria Caridad and Cabalantian, issuing ultimatums for leaders of Lumad organizations to “surrender.” The 39th IB meanwhile has not let-up its combat-psywar operations in the Bagobo communities in Brgy. Tiko, Brgy. Mahongcog and Temporan in Magpet town.

Under pretext of civilian cover, Special Operations Group Bagani Long Range Platoon Leader Ramon Ali was elected as the National Indigenous People’s Council for Peace and Development (NIPCPD) chairperson during the recent February summit to complement the military’s all out war with deception and justification.

The so-called NIPCPD is a rehashed national version of the Mindanao IP Council for Peace and Development chaired by Joel Unad, a notorious tribal dealer responsible for the landgrabbing of ancestral domain in Marilog, Baguio and Toril districts in Davao City.
Amid the all-out war against indigenous people and the revolutionary movement, the NPA responded by abiding by guerilla warfare tactics of concentration, launching attritive and annihilative actions against the enemy and dispersal to evade concentrated attacks.

As the military struck terror in 20 communities in Talaingod, the NPA Guerilla Front 56 launched a demolition operation, killing 5 members of the 3rd IB in Sitio Balaas, Brgy. Gumitan, Marilog district in Davao City on February 9 at 7:46 am. On February 4 at 7am, Red fighters belonging to the NPA Guerilla Front 55 detonated explosives against a PNP patrol car, killing 2 police personnel in Sitio Opaw, Brgy. Palma Gil, Talaingod. On that same day, operatives of the NPA Sub-Regional Command imposed capital punishment against notorious CAFGU leader and Alamara recruiter Banadjao Mampaundag and his son Jhonard, also a member of the CAFGU.

On January 25, in response to militarization of 9 barangays in Paquibato district, the 1st Pulang Bagani Battalion triggered command detonated explosives against the 16th IB in Brgy. Mapula, Paquibato district, killing 1st Lt. Jarren Jay Relota, commanding officer of the unit’s Bravo Company, and wounding two others. Earlier, Red forces harassed a platoon of the16th IB in Brgy. Lumiad, wounding 2 fascist troops.
With his war against the Lumad, GRP Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is clearly exposed as a desperate coward capable only of victimizing the lowly and unarmed, while masquerading as a loud and foul-mouthed dictator.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20180219-dutertes-war-against-lumad-intensifies-in-southern-mindanao-npa-launches-counter-attacks

CPP/MAKIBAKA: Rodrigo Duterte is a misogynistic tyrrant on his way to his downfall

Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (MAKIBAKA)-Southern Mindanao propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Feb 19): Rodrigo Duterte is a misogynistic tyrrant on his way to his downfall



Ka Teresa, Spokesperson
Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan – Southern Mindanao

19 February 2018
Press Release

MAKIBAKA, the underground revolutionary organization of women, in Southern Mindanao condemns in the highest terms Rodrigo Duterte’s marching order for AFP soldiers to shoot women members of the NPA in the vagina since taking up arms renders their reproductive organs “useless.” In playing on the AFP’s fascist tradition of rape and male chauvinism, Duterte ignorantly assumes that he can rally his troops to commit the most heinous war crimes with impunity in his anti-people Oplan Kapayapaan.

We commend all women, organizations, civil libertarians, even women members of the AFP, who have taken offense at Duterte’s primitive and misogynistic views on human rights, especially of women, which stand on the wrong side of history and make a mockery of centuries of hard-won struggle by women not only in the country but around the world.

Malacañang can no longer sweep Duterte’s comments under the rug like it did in the past. Duterte’s recent order is yet another attack against all women, much like his promise to his fascist soldiers for the latter’s choice of bedding starlets as prize or immunity lest they rape women in their anti-terror rampage. It can never be downplayed “in context” like his detestable joke of wanting to be the first to rape an Australian religious missionary. His downright sexist treatment of women media practitioners will no longer be lumped up with his general distaste for the Philippine media who struggle to exercise freedom of speech against his tyrannical rule.

Duterte is a misogynistic tyrrant not only in words but in deed. Every single day, his newly-minted TRAIN Law beats down mothers of the working class who carry the burden of making ends meet in the face of rising prices of commodities and dwindling value of already barely livable wages. In farms, corporate plantations and haciendas nationwide, women alongside men work like slaves because Duterte favors foreign investments over the institution of genuine land reform. In factories and semi-processing plants in urban centers, women alongside men continue to be victimized by corporate greed with Duterte’s adamant neoliberal policies on job contractualization.

Like any dictator, Duterte detests women and wants them to kowtow to the patriarchal authorities of the semi-fuedal and semi-colonial society that condemn women as docile, unthinking secondary citizens. He wants women to never question, raise doubt or protest the inequalities that he himself is perpetrating against the masses of peasants, workers and Lumad. He demands subservience, and where there is none, he either unravels his dirty mouth to ridicule women or raises his iron-clad fist to stifle dissent, be it against the legal democratic movement or the underground movement. But in truth, Duterte is deathly afraid of women, especially strong-willed women who see him for the mysogynistic tyrrant that he is. He is most afraid of women who choose the hard road of arm struggle against the exploitative reactionary government which he now desperately endeavors to keep together with fascism and dictatorship. He knows that when the masses rise up to topple him, more than half of those will be mothers, daughters and women of all sectors.

We likewise challenge presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, as a woman and a human being, to make a stand against her father’s egregious anti-women tirades. For the sake of the sector she belongs to and human rights in general, she must denounce this retrograde order that objectifies women and uses our reproductive organ as an instrument of subordination and derision.

MAKIBAKA calls on all women to wage all forms of resistance in the national democratic struggle to bring down the US-Duterte regime, the number one enemy of all Filipino women today. We call on more women to join the ranks of men and march with the New People’s Army which imbibes the long and heroic tradition of revolutionary women who fight against the roots of our patriarchal bondage—imperialism, feudalism and bureaucract capitalism.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20180219-rodrigo-duterte-is-a-misogynistic-tyrrant-on-his-way-to-his-downfall

NDFD/Sison: On the Persistent Refusal of Duterte to Engage in Peace Negotiations with the NDFP

Sison propaganda statement posted to the National Democratic Front Website (Feb 17): On the Persistent Refusal of Duterte to Engage in Peace Negotiations with the NDFP

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant

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If Duterte is hell bent on the armed suppression of the CPP and NPA in order to justify martial law and fascist dictatorship, there is nothing the NDFP can do but to pursue the people´s democratic revolution through protracted people´s war which is now accelerated by the escalation of oppression and exploitation under the US-Duterte regime.

It takes two sides in the current civil war in the Philippines to agree to negotiate with each other and arrive at comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms to lay the basis of a just and lasting peace. The GRP and NDFP negotiating panels were making significant progress in the peace negotiations. But it was Duterte himself who kept on sabotaging the peace negotiations.

He deliberately reneged on his promise to amnesty and release all political prisoners. He kept on terminating the peace negotiations (three times!) by raising to the press complaints which he should have submitted through his panel to the Joint Monitoring Committee in the same manner that the NDFP had submitted to this body bigger and more serious complaints against the continuance of AFP, PNP and CAFGU offensives during periods of ceasefire. The NDFP complaints involved AFP bombing of communities and mass murder of children, women and elderly people.

In the third instance of termination, Duterte issued Proclamation 360 on November 23 and then Proclamation 374 on December 5, 2017 to llbel the CPP and NPA, their supposed supporters and financiers as ¨terrorist¨. All the way, Duterte has been the one making the obstacles and obstructing the peace negotiations. He has been obsessed with scapegoating the CPP and NPA in order to have the convenient and false excuse for martial law and fascist dictatorship through a pseudo-federal constitution railroaded by his constituent assembly of pork barrel plunderers.

Duterte has already gained the notoriety of a power-crazed tyrant, an inciter and inducer of mass murder under Oplan Tokhang ang Oplan Kapayapaan. But for the sake of the Filipino people who clamor for a just peace, the NDFP is always willing to negotiate peace with the GRP whether it is still run by Duterte or no more. There are sane and reasonable sections of the GRP that may prevail over the mad drive of Duterte to terminate the peace negotiations and wallow in fascist dictatorship and bureaucratic corruption.

https://www.ndfp.org/persistent-refusal-duterte-engage-peace-negotiations-ndfp/

MILF: “Failure to pass BBL has big impact in the quest for peace in Mindanao”- BIAF men

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Feb 16): “Failure to pass BBL has big impact in the quest for peace in Mindanao”- BIAF men



LUWARAN FILE PHOTO-JOINT BIAF, ARMY, PNP TRAINEES DURING THEIR GRADUATION HELD AT OLD MAGUINDANAO PROVINCIAL CAPITOL GYM. THEY WILL COMPOSE THE JOINT PEACE AND SECURITY TEAMS AS AGREED BETWEEN THE GPH, AND MILF PEACE PANELS. THE GRADUATION RITES WAS GRACED BY BIAF OFFICERS, PNP AND PHILIPPINE ARMY OFFICERS AS WELL AS REPRESENTATIVES OF INGO’S OVERSEEING THE PEACE PROCESS IN MINDANAO

The frustrations among members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) on the ill-fated passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) by the 16th Congress has caused some doubts on the sincerity of the national government in finding a comprehensive and long lasting solution to the Moro Problem.
This time, many stakeholders are still uncertain on the enactment of an enabling law for the creation of a new political entity called Bangsamoro Region.

The Senate for its part are about to terminate the public hearings and consultations saying they have conducted enough, but there is a slow pace of deliberations in the House of representatives (Hor).

To get the pulse of some stakeholders, we traveled to some parts of Maguindanao trying to ascertain what they feel, and perceive on the current state of BBL is congress.

While in Barira, we have talked to Datu Riga, a veteran of Camp Abubakar War who was then 20 years old when they tried to defend the village of Sapad in Matanog, Maguindanaon from members of the Philippine Armed Forces trying to open a gateway towards Abubakar.

Asked what he can say about the new BBL, Datu Riga told us, “We are carefully watching the development in congress, and if ever congress fails us again this time, then we are ready to go back to the battlefield, and fight the enemy,” he said.

I’m now 37 years old and still capable of fighting for the Moro cause. He admitted that for now he engaged in farming to support his family, but reports to duty when called by his superiors.

He also admitted that at present, the AFP is no longer a threat to the Moro people, but radical elements who are trying to spread a wrong interpretations of the Noble Qur’an.

“If every there is Bangsamoro Region, then we can concentrate on these misguided elements until they stopped recruiting and brain washing Moro youths to join with them,” he said.

In Dulawan, Datu Piang, Maguindanao, we had a chance encounter with Bapa Bedo in a coffee shop. He hails from Reina Rejente, former MNLF Camp but is now occupied by MILF Forces.

Asked to comment on the new BBL, Bapa Bedo told us, “We cannot accept another frustration this time. Congress failure to pass the BBL will have big impact in the quest for peace in Mindanao.” Over a cup of coffee, he laments that the Moro have suffered enough, and it is time for them live in peace.

In Datu Odin Sinsuat, a progressing town in Maguindanao adjacent to Cotabato City, we have talked to Comdr. Bobby, a camp commander in the hinterlands of Sinsuat town.

“We believe President Rodrigo Duterte is sincere in addressing the Mindanao conflict, but he must exert extra efforts in influencing congress to pass an acceptable BBL.”

“For me, and my men, we will not accept a heavily-diluted BBL. They have to pass the new BTC version,” he added.

For now, many stakeholders are leaving the fate of the BBL to President Duterte, and congress, as its passage is unilateral on their part.

Whatever the fate of the BBL, only the Almighty knows. The Bangsamoro are not losing their enthusiasms for the smooth passage of BBL.

http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1210/---failure-to-pass-bbl-has-big-impact-in-the-quest-for-peace-in-mindanao-----biaf-men

MILF: Educating people for peace and order is part of struggle -- Paguimanan

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Feb 18): Educating people for peace and order is part of struggle -- Paguimanan



PANDAG, MAGUINDANAO (February 17, 2018) - “Educating people for peace and order is part of struggle,” Abs Paguimanan, 109th Base Command Deputy Commander of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) said,

During the Bangsamoro Symposium organized by the MILF Damakling Political Committee, Paguimanan emphasized the need to maintain peace that starts within oneself.

“Enjoining what is good, and forbidding what is wrong is one way of promoting peace and order in our community”, he further said.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) agreed to help the government secure, promote and maintain peace, and order in the communities prone to various forms of social problems.

Prof. Esmael Abdula, Executive Director of Kalilintad Peacebuilding Institute (KPI), explained the stages of Bangsamoro Struggle for right to self-determination.

“The MILF is now in the stage of political struggle as the practical means of seeking lasting peace in Mindanao. The MILF sustains its gains from the Peace Process with the Government of the Philippines”, Abdula said.

Lasting peace is our aspiration to build peaceful communities”, he added.

“The Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is the legal document that addresses the Bangsamoro right to self-determination, for it will establish the Bangsamoro Political Entity”, Abdula further said.

The BBL will provide for the basic structure of Bangsamoro government set forth in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed between the Government and the MILF in 2014.

The symposium was attended by the local political leaders, BIAF senior, and field commanders, women sector, religious sector, and MNLF commanders, and members of political committee led by Mokaledin Kido.

http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1212/educating-people-for-peace-and-order-is-part-of-struggle----paguimanan

MILF: BIAF 109th Base Command holds Bangsamoro Symposium

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Feb 19): BIAF 109th Base Command holds Bangsamoro Symposium



MANGUDADATU, MAGUINDANAO- Abas Bukol, Base Commander of 109th Base Command of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) told members of his command, and participants to the symposium in Mangudatu town on February 19 that MILF is strictly obliging all its line agencies, and BIAF members to ‘enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong’ in the Bangsamoro communities.
“The BIAF is tasked to promote peace, and order in the communities”, Bukol said.

Bukol added: “Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong can be a channel in seeking lasting peace in Mindanao.”

“Let us work together towards inclusive peace in Mindanao”, emphasized Bukol.

Guest speaker Professor Esmael Abdula, President of Kalilintad Peacebuilding Institute and BLMI Training Officer, said “MILF Political Struggle is a Bangsamoro people’s struggle towards establishing Bangsamoro political entity.”

“Addressing the Moro Historical Injustices is the ultimate solution to the Bangsamoro Problem”, Abdula emphasized.

“The Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is a political document that will resolve decades of Mindanao conflict. It is the government unilateral responsibility to enact the Bangsamoro Law that is compliant to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsaamoro (CAB),” Abdula added.

The symposium was attended by members of the BIAF National Guard Front, MILF Damakling Provincial Committee, local political leaders, religious sector, and women sector.



http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1213/biaf-109th-base-command-holds-bangsamoro-symposium

DWDD: COUNTER TERRORISM | AFP-PNP Captures Suspected Terrorist, cohort

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): COUNTER TERRORISM  |  AFP-PNP Captures Suspected Terrorist, cohort

 

CAMP RAFAEL CRAME, Quezon City (DWDD) – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) conducted a successful joint counter-terrorism operation that led to the capture of suspected foreign terrorist.

PNP Chief PDG Ronald Dela Rosa and Civil Relations Service, AFP Chief BGen Bienvenido Datuin presented to members of the media Fehmi Lassqued alias John Rasheed Lassoned, a native of Syria, and his Filipina companion, Anabel Moncera Salipada, 32, of Upi, Maguindanao.

The same AFP-PNP joint operations framework help defeat the 5-month IS-inspired conflict in Marawi City last year.

 

The suspects were arrested at Room 409 of Casa Blanca Apartment along M, Adriatico, Malate, Manila during a search conducted by operatives of the Regional Police Intelligence Operations Unit (RPIOU) of NCRPO and the AFP Joint Special Operations Group on orders of Hon. Benjamin T. Pozon, Presiding Judge of Regional Trial Court Branch 139 of Makati City. Lassqued and Salipada were promptly placed under arrest upon the discovery of assorted firearms, ammunition and components for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) such as electronic circuits, resistors, capacitors, batteries, and pipe fittings. Lassqued, who carried a Tunisienne passport is believed to be a member of an international terrorist organization.

A thorough investigation is now underway to determine the extent of their involvement with international and domestic threat groups.

The arrest of Lassqued and Salipada may have effectively thwarted whatever hostile activities they were up to, but we will not lower our guard rather we will continue to mount proactive operations against terrorism. AES / ALS

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DWDD: STATEMENT | BGen Datuin on the capture of a foreign terrorist and his cohort

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): STATEMENT  |  BGen Datuin on the capture of a foreign terrorist and his cohort



“Magandang Umaga sa lahat. Napakaganda nitong success ng Joint operations in the AFP and PNP. Makikita natin ang collaboration and cooperation within the two sectors. Two, for the important forces and the security sectors and i just hope na tuloy tuloy na ito and of course we need the active involvement from the citizenry from the populace kasi we need the active defense to detect any threat of terrorism that we have. So pagtulong tulungan natin ito.” AES / LQG

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DWDD: NEW SPEARHEAD WARRIORS | 3ID Graduates 481 Soldiers

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): NEW SPEARHEAD WARRIORS  |  3ID Graduates 481 Soldiers

JAMINDAN, Capiz (DWDD) – February13 was a big day for the 481 graduates of the Candidate Soldier (CS) Course of the 3rd Infantry “Spearhead” Division (3ID) of the Philippine Army.

 

On the said date, the 3ID conferred certificates of graduation to the 193 members of CS Class 505-2017, 146 from Class 492-2017; and 142 from Class 491-2017 in a ceremony held at the 3ID Grandstand in Bgy. Jaena Norte here.

According to Brig. Gen. Dinoh Dolina, 3ID commander, 193 of these new graduates will be deployed to the engineering units in Western Visayas and Central Visayas; while the rest will replace retiring soldiers in the different battalions of 3ID.

Prior to graduation, the graduates have already been assigned to their respective units, he added.

Dolina said this forms part of the recruitment effort of the 3ID, as per the government’s response to the pronouncement of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria Sison that they will kill soldiers every day.

 

To keep the soldiers safe, there are procedures that soldiers are being asked to follow and there are precautionary measures regarding Sison’s threat, according to Dolina.

“Kapag nagsasabi ang CPP-NPA ng isang bagay, gagawin nila. There are many instances in the past na namamalengke lang ang sundalo, pinapatay nila. Ang masaklap pa roon, kasama pa ang pamilya,” Dolina said.

Recruitment is on-going. Another 500 soldiers are needed to fill a new battalion in 3ID and to replace soldiers who retired, Dolina said.

Besides soldiers recruitment, the government also expanded its Comprehensive Local Integration Program encouraging rebels to surrender.

“We want to avoid shedding blood. We will embrace them if they want to return to the fold of law,” he said. 3DPAO / MCAG

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DWDD: NEW JUNGLE FIGHTERS | 2ID enlist IP’s

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): NEW JUNGLE FIGHTERS  |  2ID enlist IP’s 

CAMP GEN MATEO CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal (DWDD) – Members of the Indigenous People (IP) of Cordillera were enlisted and took oath as new soldiers of the Philippine Army during a joint Closing Ceremony and Recognition day held at 2nd Infantry “Jungle Fighter” Division, Philippine Army, Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal on February 16, 2018.

 

The 322 new Privates from Candidate Soldier Classes 486 and 487- 2017 who have successfully completed the five (5) month rigid training were composed of 42 IP who belongs to the tribal groups of Isneg, Binongan, Kalinga and Kankanaey.

Graduating from basic military training is no small thing, as new soldiers were properly nurtured with the basic knowledge and skills of soldiery in order to develop their character worthy to become members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Major General Rhoderick M Parayno AFP, Commander, 2ID, stressed to the new soldiers that their enlistment in the Army is now the start of their true service to the government. “You must serve with diligence and great courage to defend our country against the enemy of the state”, he added.

 

MGen Parayno also thanked the parents, relatives and friends of the new soldiers for the support and congratulated the Division Training School personnel who were responsible for the training of these new raise of soldiers.

The activity culminated with a symbolic entrustment of firearms to the new privates with Hon. Jose B Delos Santos, Vice- Mayor, Jalajala, Rizal together with other LGUs. This ceremonial entrustment of firearms will instill nationalism and service-oriented attitude among soldiers who willfully accepted the magnitude of the responsibility, duty and authority vested upon them in protecting the country and the Filipino people.

The 2ID deems it necessary to involve the local government officials in this ceremonial entrustment since the new soldiers will soon become partner in promoting peace and development in the locality. 2DPAO / MCAG 










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DWDD: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | TOG-10 conducts Peace and Drug Symposium

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT  |  TOG-10 conducts Peace and Drug Symposium

 

CAGAYAN DE ORO (DWDD) – The Tactical Operations Group 10, Philippine Air Force in Northern Mindanao region, led by its Group Commander, LTC Thurman B Fanugao PAF (GSC), in cooperation with 58th and 65th Infantry Battalions of Philippine Army, Bantay Bayan, PNP and DILG, successfully conducted a Peace and Drug Symposium at Brgy. Tumpagon, Cagayan de Oro City on February 17, 2018.

A total of 284 residents were made aware of the government’s war on drugs under RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002. Their issues and concerns regarding insurgencies were raised and answered.

The said activity gained a deep sense of security and appreciation from the residents of Brgy. Tumpagon. TOG 10 / MCAG
 

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DWDD: DEPLOYED | Littoral Combat Force Send Off crafts to Naval Forces West

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Feb 19): DEPLOYED  |  Littoral Combat Force Send Off crafts to Naval Forces West

 

SANGLEY POINT, Cavite (DWDD) – The Philippine Navy through the Littoral Combat Force of the Philippine Fleet conducted a Send-off Ceremony to BRP Nestor Reinoso (PC380) and the 3rd Boat Attack Division composed of two of its pristine Multi-Purpose Attack Craft (MPAC) MKIII for the deployment to Naval Forces West in Palawan on February 15, 2018 at Captain Moya Boat Landing, Naval Base Heracleo Alano, Sangley Point, Cavite City. PHL FLEET / MCAG

  





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