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Post by dodger on Aug 4, 2013 9:45:15 GMT
www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/08/01/13/npa-suffered-huge-losses-july-militaryAbove link sets out the latest government information. Below is posted a report from one of the NPA fronts. Decide for yourself which account holds water, as I am sure, you need no prompting. The old, old saying "Truth is the first casualty of war" still stands.
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Oplan Bayanihan in Northern Samar a failure!
17 soldiers killed and 11 wounded in successive NPA military actions!
August 03, 2013
Amado Pesante
Spokesperson
NPA Northern Samar Provincial Operations Command (Rodante Urtal Command)
Oplan Bayanihan, People's War, tactical offensives Resize text: A+ A- Reset
The Rodante Urtal Command of the New People’s Army (RUC-NPA) in Northern Samar today said 17 were killed and 11 wounded among soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in a series of military engagements launched by the RUC-NPA from June to July 2013. According to Ka Amado Pesante, spokesperson of the RUC-NPA, “These series of military actions occurred in the barangays of Avelino, Cuenco and Lakandula in Las Navas, Northern Samar, dealing 12 killed and two wounded on the enemy. One Red fighter was martyred and four wounded in these military actions. Meanwhile, in the town of Victoria, five were killed and nine wounded last June 25 when a team of Red fighters and the people’s militia harassed operating troops of the 20th IB between Brgy. Lungib and Brgy. Luisita. There were no casualties on the side of the NPA in this tactical offensive.”
Ka Amado Pesante added the military actions were in response to the people’s demand for the punishment of the 8th ID over widespread human rights violations committed by its troops while carrying out brutal military operations under Oplan Bayanihan. “They encamp in civilian communities, commit bombing with mortars as well as aerial strafing on farmlands, destroy properties, and disrupt the livelihood and peace of the people. Recently, a peasant in Brgy. Cuenco, Las Navas complained that 8th ID troops burned his rice crops worth P42,000 during their military operations.”
Ka Amado Pesante also belied the military’s statement that the revolutionary movement was on its last legs, and clarified that innocent peasants were victimized in the 20th Infantry Battalion’s report about 53 “NPA surrenderees” in Brgy. E. Duran, Bobon. “The 20th IB commander, Lt. Col. Noel Vestuir, and 8th ID chief Major General Gerardo Layug, are both so desperate to conceal the advances of the revolutionary movement, that they misrepresented the peasants they forced to attend a meeting as “NPA surrenderees”. In fact, because of the successive attacks on their troops, the soldiers are extremely fearful during their operations. Even though they comprise several columns during their operations, they don’t dare to make camp and merely sleep on the ground when resting. They also race each other in crossing rivers out of fear of an NPA ambush. The US-Aquino regime has dumped six battalions and a special forces unit in Northern Samar, but they run like dogs with tails between their legs when attacked by the NPA. They will surely embarrass themselves further with their statements about crushing the revolutionary movement because the people of Northern Samar and the whole region are determined to defeat Oplan Bayanihan.”
Ka Amado Pesante called on all NPA units in Northern Samar to further intensify and spread tactical offensives in response to the call of the Communist Party of the Philippines to defeat Oplan Bayanihan and raise the level of warfare in not too short a time to the strategic stalemate from the strategic defensive. “The people of Northern Samar cherish the NPA as their army and genuinely advancing their interests. The people’s support further strengthens the efforts of the NPA and the entire revolutionary movement and will surely ensure the defeat of the fascist, pro-imperialist and corrupt maneuvers of the US-Aquino regime.”
Defeat Oplan Bayanihan!
Long live the New People’s Army!
Long live the people of Northern Samar!
Long live the people’s war!
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Post by dodger on Aug 4, 2013 11:44:59 GMT
Ka Parago releases 5 POWs in Paquibato
July 31, 2013
Rubi Del Mundo
Spokesperson
NDFP Southern Mindanao Chapter
Upon the orders of the National Democratic Front Southern Mindanao, Ka Parago, spokesperson of the 1st Pulang Bagani Battalion of the New People’s Army released its five prisoners of war today, July 31, 2013 at around 4pm in a village in Paquibato district, Davao city.
Released after 44 days in detention were Cpl. Emmanuel Quezon (serial no. 827510), Pfc. Vernie Padilla (SN 898234), Pvt. Marteniano Pasigas (SN 901766), Pfc. Ronald Gura (SN 898248), and Pfc. Donato Estandian (SN 893670).
The five POWs belong to the 60th Infantry Battalion who were tried by the people’s revolutionary court for cases of harassment, intimidation and other violations against the peasant and Lumad masses by the 10thID-Philippine Army in Paquibato district.
In its Order of Release, Rubi del Mundo, NDF spokesperson said the release was in compliance with the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 and its Protocols and pursuant to the decision taken by the organs of the People’s Democratic Government.
Del Mundo cited the following considerations for the release order for each of the five POWs:
“After the capture of the prisoner, he has been investigated by responsible organs of the Detaining Power and no sufficient evidence has been established to warrant his prosecution for serious crimes committed against the Filipino people and the revolutionary movement.”
“The prisoner’s release is being ordered in compliance with the NDFP’s long-standing policy of lenient treatment of prisoners of war and its Declaration of Undertaking to Apply the Provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol I Thereto dated July 5, 1996 which was deposited with the Swiss Federal Council as official depositary of said instrument and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.”
The NDF also said the Release Order was “an act in the exercise of the political power and authority of the People’s Democratic Government and is done on humanitarian grounds.”
It added that the NDFP’s act of goodwill was also a “favorable response to the appeals of the families of the POWs and the request of well-meaning parties and personages that have expressed support for a negotiated settlement on the issue of Prisoners of War within the purview of the CARHRIHL and the Geneva Conventions and its Protocols.”
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was on hand to receive the five POWs.
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A simple soldier, released POW expressed himself thus:"The NPA comrades treated me like a brother, sharing food and giving regular medical checks." Now returning POW's are spirited away from families and media. De-briefing is the term used.....Hugs and warm handshakes with their NPA captors on release are also soon cut from News bulletins. Though nothing can disguise the joy of POWs reunited with loved ones, hence Mayor Duterte landing by helicopter and enraging the military Public Relations hounds.
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Post by dodger on Aug 8, 2013 13:42:03 GMT
Tribals opposing big mining killed by Aquino security forces – NDFP
August 07, 2013
Luis Jalandoni
Chairperson
NDFP Negotiating Panel
The Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines is issuing the accompanying statement of NDFP Consultant ALAN JAZMINES who is a Member of the NDFP Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and Economic Reforms (RWC SER).
His statement uses concrete facts to expose the allegations of Edgar Dayanghirang of the GPH’s RWC SER as completely false. In his statement, Jazmines gives numerous examples of the extrajudicial killings of indigenous peoples’ leaders and their families by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and their paramilitary forces.
Jazmines has been detained by the Aquino government since 14 February 2011, in gross violation of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). The NDFP continues to demand the release of Jazmines and other detained NDFP consultants.
On the struggle of indigenous people for their Ancestral Land and the struggle for genuine reform
By ALAN JAZMINES
Detained NDFP peace consultant
Member of the NDFP part in the GPH-NDFP RWCs on SER
Ednar Dayanghirang, who heads the present Philippine government’s part in the Government of the Republic of the Philippines – National Democratic Front of the Philippines Reciprocal Working Committees on Socio-Economic Reforms (GPH-NDF RWCs on SER), has come out either totally lying all the way or else totally knowing nothing, or a combination of both, in his statements to the media in an interview last Saturday with the DZRH radio station.
Dayanghirang stated that the New People’s Army (NPA) has been killing indigenous people, even if what is true is the other way around – it is the reactionary Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) regular and paramilitary forces that have wantonly been killing indigenous people and national minorities, especially the leaders of these and protectors of their communities and rights, and committing other gross human rights violations against them.
The NDFP/NPA (on the part of the armed revolutionary movement) and KARAPATAN (on the part of human rights and legal cause-oriented people’s movement) have, in fact, been coming out with concrete real data exposing the atrocities that the fascist military and paramilitary forces have been committing left and right. The following are just some of such atrocities committed against indigenous people in Mindanao alone:
On 29 January 2013, Kitari Capion, a well-known and widely respected B’laan leader of the Red Pangayaw, a B’laan tribal movement against the destructive foreign big mining (particularly that of the Xtrata-Sagittarius Mining Incorporated) that has been eating up and destroying the tribe’s ancestral land, was killed by combined elements of the 27th and 39th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and paramilitary forces of these, who were then conducting security operations in the area. Kitari Capion was hit by a bullet in the head when the operating army troopers and their paramilitary forces rained bullets at the home of Kitari Capion. Kitari was brought by his family to the hospital, but died on arrival.
The Kimlawis, community of the Capions and 150 or so other B’laans in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, protested the ruthless attack at the home of the family of Kitari Capion and the killing of the father of the family. The B’laans of Kimlawis also reiterated their protest at the earlier merciless killing of other members of the Capion family, particularly that of Kitari’s brother, Daguil, another well-known and widely respected B’laan leader of the Red Pangayaw and lead protestor against the destructive foreign big mining of the Xtrata-Sagittarius Mining Incorporated in their B’laan ancestral land. (As if to spite the Lumad indigenous people to which the B’laans belong, on Lumad month, the Bravo Company of the 27th IB PA under the command of 1st Lt. Dante Jimenez, raided the home of Kitari’s brother, Daguil Capion, to seize him, and, not finding him there, seized instead his two-month pregnant wife Juvy and their sons Jan-jan, seven years old, and Jorge, eleven years old, tortured them and, right in front of the Kimlawis community, mercilessly killed them. A daughter, Juvicky, and another female relative were also assaulted and hurt).
The entire B’laan Kimlawis community reiterated their long-standing demand for the exit from their ancestral land of the Task Force KITACOM (composed of the 27th IB PA, the 39th IB PA and their paramilitary forces), who have been operating in the area and wreaking havoc on the B’laan community there for the protection of the destructive foreign big mining firm they are serving.
The B’laans were only further threatened by the Task Force KITACOM and ignored by government. They were thus forced to vacate their homes and community on 01 January this year. In the meantime, the Task Force KITACOM and the destructive foreign big mining it serves continue unfettered in their operations against the B’laan and their exploitation and destruction of the B’laan ancestral land.
More indigenous people in Mindanao alone, extrajudicially killed by military and paramilitary forces of the present Aquino regime, include the following:
Gilbert Paborada, a Higaonon indigenous leader, was killed on 3 October 2012 in Opol, Misamis Oriental for leading his fellow Higaonon’s resistance to the expansion of the A. Brown Oil palm plantation, that would in effect landgrab their ancestral land.
Genesis Ambason, a Banuaon indigenous leader was killed on 13 September 2012 in San Luis, Agusan del Sur, for leading his fellow Banuaon’s resistance to the Malampay Mining’s destructive exploration of their ancestral land.
Jordan Manda, a Subanen indigenous child was killed on 1 August 2012, in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, victimized in reprisal for the Subanen’s resistance to the expansion by the Toronto Ventures, Inc. of its mining operations to cover more Subanen ancestral land.
Totong Mabinsi, a Dibabawon indigenous farmer, was extrajudicially killed on 22 July 2012, in Laak, Compostela Valley, with his killing justified for his purportedly being an NPA fighter, even if he is just an ordinary farmer.
Jimmy Laguyon, a Matigsalog indigenous leader, was killed on 5 March 2012 in San Fernando, Bukidnon, for his refusal to allow large-scale mining in the Matigsalog ancestral land.
Dioguino Scuadro, a Tagakaolo indigenous leader was killed on 4 August 2011 in Barangay Ticulan, Malita, Davao del Sur, for his being – like the B’laans’ Capions – a leading advocate of opposition by the Tagakaolos to the Xtrata-Sagittarius Mining Incorporated’s destructive mining of the Tagakaolo ancestral land.
Arpe Datu Lapugotan Belayong and Solte San-ogan, both Higaonon indigenous leaders, were killed on 30 June 2011 in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, for their leading Higaonon resistance to destructive large-scale logging and mining operations in Higaonon ancestral land.
Ruben Gatong, Itik Auwisan, Nicodemedes dela Peña, Sr. and Nicomedes dela Peña, Jr., Matigsalog indigenous people, were killed on 27 April 2011 for their resistance to destructive large-scale mining explorations in Matigsalog ancestral land.
Florita Caya, another anti-large-scale mining indigenous leader was killed on 27 April 2011 in Monkayo, Compostela Valley for resisting the operations of destructive large-scale mining in their ancestral land.
Rudyrick Dejos and Rudy Dejos, B’laan indigenous people were killed on 27 February 2011 for their active organizing of B’laan farmers in their ancestral land.
More than a score more of indigenous Lumads have been killed from the onset of the present Aquino regime in June 2010 until the present for resisting the landgrabbing and destruction of their ancestral land.
While it is the destructive foreign large-scale mining, logging and other extractive interests and their puppet military and paramilitary that have actually been grabbing, exploiting and destroying the ancestral land of indigenous people and national minorities in the country, and, on the other hand, it is the NDFP/NPA which have been supporting them in their struggles for their claim to their ancestral land and their other rights, Dayanghirang goes further with his lies to claim that the NDFP/NPA proscribes the eventual state ownership of all land.
Dayanghirang is again a total liar, or is totally ignorant, or is a combination of both. The NDFP/NPA vigorously promotes and pushes for genuine land reform, starting from the free distribution of land to the tillers and indigenous people as the real owners of land and not the feudal lords, the capitalists and/or the state; the increasing cooperativization of labor, administration and production in the land; and the eventual communal ownership of the land. Claiming that the objective and end product is the state ownership of the land is a total falsity.
We, in the NDFP part of the GPH-NDFP RWCs on SER, strongly suggest that Dayanghirang seriously read the NDFP’s proposal for a Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER), long ago submitted to the GPH peace panel. This, so that our exchanges and commentaries should be based on actual facts and ideas, and not on lies, ignorance, or a combination of both.
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Post by dodger on Aug 8, 2013 14:34:44 GMT
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Post by dodger on Aug 9, 2013 15:43:21 GMT
A new platoon-- a mixed bag.
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Post by dodger on Aug 12, 2013 13:32:55 GMT
THE NEED FOR UNITED FRONT IN THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC Revolution
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Post by dodger on Aug 13, 2013 13:09:45 GMT
www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/321800/news/regions/npa-rebels-disarm-mayor-escort-in-zamboanga-del-sur
August 13, 2013 3:21pm
(Updated 4:15 p.m.) Communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels in police uniform on Tuesday blocked and disarmed the vehicle of a local official in Zamboanga del Sur province, the police and military said.
Pitogo Mayor Richard Garban and his policeman escort lost several firearms, including high-powered ones, to the more or less 15 rebels who flagged their vehicle in front of Mati Elementary School in San Miguel town, according to a report from the the Police Regional Office 9.
Capt. Jefferson Somera of the Army's 1st Infantry Division said Garban and his escort did not resist when accosted by the rebels who were wearing the uniform of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force. Garban was on the way to Pagadian City at that time.
“They were in SAF uniforms when they intercepted the vehicle of the mayor,” said Somera of the rebels, who are now being pursued by the Army soldiers.he rebels were wearing Philippine National Police camouflage uniforms, the police report said.
Citing Garban, the police report said the rebels ordered them to disembark their vehicle before disarming them. After which, they were ordered to get back to their vehicle and proceed to their destination.
Seized from the victims were one Baby Armalite Rifle bearing serial number GO32274; a caliber 45 pistol with serial number BG00677; a caliber 9mm pistol bearing serial number X911101488 and owned by the mayor; a caliber 5.56 m16 armalite rifle, Elisco bearing serial number RPO54700, and a caliber 45 pistol, norinco with serial number 106478, owned by PO3 Julito Hacotano, Gamban's security escort.
Suspects immediately fled towards the mountainous area of Barangay Ocapan and Barangay Calube in San Miguel, according to the police report.
Police, in close coordination with Philippine Army's 53rd Infantry Division, have since conducted pursuit operations against the rebels.
Initial investigation showed the suspected NPA rebels are in the area flagging down passing vehicles going to Pagadian City, which included the vehicle of the mayor, it added.
Past incidents
Communist rebels have been known to disarm local officials as a form of harassment and also to beef up their weaponry.
In 2008, then-Loreto, Agusan del Sur mayor Romeo Magadan Jr.'s convoy were flagged down and disarmed by more or less 30 NPA rebels.
Two years later, or in 2010, NPA rebels blocked and disarmed the entourage of a mayor and his bodyguards while they were campaigning in Gigaquit town in Surigao del Norte.
In both cases, the local official and his companions were unharmed. — Amanda Fernandez/KBK, GMA News |
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Post by dodger on Aug 13, 2013 13:20:10 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20130812_7-gov-t-soldiers-killed-in-4-npa-offensives-in-claveria-misor7 gov’t soldiers killed in 4 NPA offensives in Claveria, MisOr
August 12, 2013
Lorena Mangahas
Spokesperson
NPA Eastern Misamis Oriental - North Eastern Bukidnon Sub-regional Operations Command
For four consecutive days, the New People’s Army under the Eastern Misamis Oriental-North Eastern Bukidnon Subregional command has launched four harassment actions against operating troops of the 58th IB-PA in the town of Claveria. Seven of the reactionary troops were killed in these attacks.
August 9 – an NPA squad encountered 58th IB troops in Brgy. Aposkahoy, Claveria, Misamis Oriental. The Red fighters positioned themselves atop a hill being traversed by the mercenary troops. Two of the soldiers were killed when the NPA unit used a command-detonated explosive against them. According to reports from the locals, the enemy soldiers transported their casualties on a 6×6 military truck. On the other hand, the comrades safely withdrew after the harassment.
August 10 – at around 9:30 AM, an NPA reconnaissance team encountered returning 58th IB troops in Brgy. Aposkahoy. Another 58th IB column met up with these withdrawing troops. There is yet no information whether or not the enemy soldiers had any casualties. The NPA suffered none.
Yesterday, August 11 – yet another attack was successfully launched by an NPA team in Brgy. Bulahan, Claveria. Around 6:00 AM, the NPA team, positioned beside a trail, attacked the passing 58th IB troops. Only about three meters separated the two troops’ positions. Four were killed and three were wounded among the enemy troops. The NPA team safely withdrew.
August 12 – around 2:00 PM, in Brgy. Farmbugas, Claveria. An NPA team harassed 58th IB troops. According to the partial report from the field unit, one enemy soldier was killed while the NPA team safely withdrew without casualties.
At present, military operations in Claveria are still going on. The enemy has spared no effort at hunting down the revolutionary movement in the province since April. The revolutionary forces have, however, become more steadfast at foiling the attempts of the fascist troops through close coordination with the widening and deepening mass base in the area.
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Post by dodger on Aug 17, 2013 14:32:36 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20130607/funds-for-military-retirees-stolenFunds for military retirees stolen
The pension system of the entire Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is riddled with anomalies. As a result, many retired military personnel do not receive their pensions. Others suffer long delays before receiving their pensions. As of now, the government owes 112,000 retired military personnel P16 billion. Last week, 9,700 retired AFP elements complained about the delay of their pensions since May.
The fund shortage has worsened since 2006 when the Armed Forces of the Philippines Retirement and Separation Benefits System (AFP-RSBS) was closed due to rampant anomalies. The AFP-RSBS invested the pension funds in real estate projects and lending schemes that didn’t prosper and eventually went bankrupt. There are also beneficiaries on the list who have long been dead but whose pensions have been ending up in the pockets of corrupt officials.
Before the RSBS’ closure, up to P250 million had already been stolen by its corrupt officials by 2000 with not a single rotten official charged.
The AFP has known since October 2011 that there will be a crisis in the military pension system that will affect the benefits received by retirees. This was expected to happen in 2016, but the crisis is already being acutely felt now.
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Seem like theft of soldiers pension will come back and bite those corrupt officials on the bum. Not just rumblings in the lower ranks. More and more A RELUCTANCE TO RISK LIFE AND LIMB. "For what?" The bastards are robbing us while we are eaten alive with Mosquitos!! A sentiment heard at family gathering. Rudiments of wisdom.
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Post by dodger on Aug 17, 2013 14:35:25 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20130607/successful-antifeudal-actions-in-negros-oriental
Successful antifeudal actions in Negros Oriental
Up to 450 peasant families benefited from successful antifeudal actions launched by more than 100 farmers in Barangay Buenavista, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on April 20. Farmers, drivers, the youth and middle forces from the village dialogued with landlords such as Mayor Ernesto Reyes, Lila Bustamante and Fredo Javier.
After the farmers presented their demand for a wage increase, the landlords had a heated argument among themselves. Fredo Javier and Lila Bustamante were the first to give in to the farmers’ demand, with Mayor Ernesto Reyes the last.
Due to the campaign, the wages of peasants working in sugar cane plantations were raised from P120 to P150 daily. Wages for cutting and hauling sugar also increased from P180 to P250 per ton. From P80, the daily wage for tilling the land was raised to P100 daily for men. Wages for women remained at P80 but the work day for them and all other hacienda workers was reduced from eight to seven hours.
The campaign influenced a wide area, prompting other landlords to raise wages to the same level.
For decades, farmers endured eight hours of backbreaking work everyday, come rain or shine, in exchange for low wages.
Due to the very low wages in the haciendas, farmers could not cope with the rising prices of commodities such as rice, which now sells at P35-50/kilo. This has resulted in high malnutrition rates among children, lack of education, growing numbers of child workers and the prevalence of diseases brought about by heavy workloads and the scarcity of food and medicine.
The Department of Labor and Employment has been useless in countering the landlords and hacienderos’ illegal wage system. Likewise, Aquino’s landlord government has failed to provide farm workers with livelihood services.
They have thus pooled their strength to fight for their interests. They have garnered widespread support from farmers of neighboring villages, enough to launch a campaign for wage increases in other haciendas.
According to Julian Mabini, spokesperson of the Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM)-Central Negros, this is but an initial victory, with more actions of this kind to be launched in the future.
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Post by dodger on Aug 17, 2013 14:39:34 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20130607/npa-seizes-11-firearms-in-gunbattles
VICTORIOUS NPA OFFENSIVES
NPA seizes 11 firearms in gunbattles
Red Fighters of the New People’s Army seized 11 high-powered rifles in various successful tactical offensives in Southern Mindanao and Albay province on May 20-21. Meanwhile, up to 30 soldiers were killed in various NPA military actions in Northcentral Mindanao Region and Albay in May.
In Southern Mindanao Region. Eight high-powered rifles, comprising an M4 (5.56) semi-automatic rifle, three baby armalites, two M16s and two 12-gauge shotguns were seized by Red Fighters from the ComVal-Davao Gulf Subregional Command and ComVal-Davao East Coast Subregional Command in a raid on the headquarters of the DASIA Security Agency at Dr. Juan Gonzales St., Orange Valley Village, Tagum City at 7:45 p.m. of May 20. They also seized ammunition, magazines and ammunition and bullet proof vests. The DASIA headquarters is located less than a kilometer away from the Philippine National Police-Davao del Norte Provincial Headquarters and its Tagum City station.
Disarming the DASIA Security Agency serves as a punitive measure on its owner, the Escandor family, for seizing the lands of the Matigsalug Lumad tribe in Barangay Salumanay and Sitio Marahan in Marilog District and the Ubos tribe in Baracatan, Toril District, both in Davao City.
The NPA withdrew safely after the daring 15-minute raid without firing a single shot. It took the enemy ten hours before it could send a reaction team to the area.
In anticipation of military pursuit operations, the Red fighters prepared two attritive actions which dealt huge casualties on the enemy.
An NPA unit used command-detonated explosives (CDX) against 66th IB troops who were aboard a KM450 military truck traversing the highway in Barangay Pandapan, Tagum City at about 6:15 a.m. on May 21.
After two hours, Red Fighters detonated another CDX which destroyed an armored personnel carrier (APC) in Sitio Tagmanok, Barangay Tuburan, Mawab, Compostela Valley. The incident took place a mere two kilometers away from the headquarters of the 10th ID.
In Albay. Fighters from the Santos Binamera Command-New People’s Army (SBM-NPA) seized a K3 light machine gun, two M16s and bullets in an ambush against a squad under the 2nd IB Charlie Company on patrol in Sitio Mamara, Barangay del Rosario, Camalig on May 20. Three soldiers were killed, including their team leader, while a soldier was seriously wounded. At the same time, another unit of the SBM-NPA launched harassment operations against a detachment of the 2nd IB located at the center of the said barangay. The NPA suffered zero casualties in both battles.
In Northcentral Mindanao. Red fighters launched a new series of military actions in different parts of the region which resulted in 27 soldiers killed and several others wounded. This was the revolutionary movement’s response to the deployment of the Marine Battalion Landing Team-3 to Northcentral Mindanao after the US-Aquino regime boasted of destroying the growing revolutionary movement in the region.
Ten enemy elements were killed while a Red Fighter was martyred after members of the NPA launched harassment operations against the 58th IB and Marines who were aboard six six-by-six trucks in Barangay Lawit, Gingoog City on May 11.
Before the incident, two soldiers were killed when an NPA unit opened fire at the CAA-AFP detachment in Km 11, Tapnigue, Barangay Sangay, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte on May 10.
NPA fighters launched two harassment operations against the 58th IB and Marines joint operation in Barangay Samay, Gingoog City on May 9. A soldier was killed during the first operation and two soldiers in the second. The Red Fighters also launched harassment operations against 58th IB troops in Sitio Sabangan, Barangay San Luis, Malitbog, Bukidnon.
Seven soldiers were likewise killed when NPA Red Fighters opened fire at a command post of the 18th IB in Barangay Salawagan, Quezon, Bukidnon on May 7.
A soldier was killed when NPA fighters harassed a Scout Rangers unit in Barangay Mahagsay, San Luis, Agusan del Sur on May 5.
Three soldiers were killed in NPA harassment operations against a Scout Ranger unit undertaking strike operations while aboard 12 motorcycles in Barangay Mahagsay, San Luis, Agusan del Sur on May 4.
A soldier was killed and seven others wounded when an NPA team overcame an attack by a column of the 8th IB and Scout Rangers in Barangay Busdi, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon on May 3. A Red Fighter was martyred in this battle.
In Abra. Three soldiers belonging to the 41st IB were killed and many others were wounded in an NPA ambush in Mabolo, Gacab, Malibcong on May 30. Elements of the 41st IB first fired on the NPA’s sentry while the Red fighters were temporarily encamped in the area. The NPA managed to withdraw safely and ambushed the soldiers involved in the pursuit operations four hours later. ~
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Post by dodger on Aug 21, 2013 7:20:17 GMT
ABOUT THE NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY AND THPAL-SUMITOMO
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chief Political Consultant, NDFP Panel in Peace Negotiations with GPH
By Kenji Matsuura
Reporter, Daily Manila Shimbun
December 23, 2011
This is the Daily Manila Shimbun, Japanese newspaper. My name is Kenji Matsuura, Japanese reporter. I would like to ask you about the NPA and THPAL-Sumitomo in Surigao del Norte.
I went to Claver Surigao del Norte from October 4 to 6 and I saw the destroyed environment and low-wage workers in that place. The wages of mining workers I interviewed were about P250 a day. The residents told me that they could not send their children to school because of poverty.
But I still have further questions. I wish to know more. Would you answer the following questions?
Answer: Yes. I will answer your questions as much as I can on the basis of the knowledge that I have as the chief political consultant of the NDF in peace negotiations with the Manila-based reactionary government (GPH).
1.Why was THPAL-Sumitomo attacked by the NPA? Of course I have already read the NDF-Northeast Mindanao statement of October 4. But I wish to know more.
Answer: I think that the October 4 statement of NDF is quite adequate and authoritative in giving the reasons for the NPA punitive action against THPAL-Sumitomo. This huge Tag-anito High-Pressure Acid Leaching Plant (THPAL), owned chiefly by the Sumitomo Mining Corporation, collaborates with the Nickel Asia Corporation which digs up and destroys extensive areas. The rapid extraction and exportation of mineral ores constitute imperialist plunder and deprive the Philippines of future industrial development.
The THPAL is extremely harmful to the health and livelihood of the indigenous people and more people further downstream. It destroys the environment, agriculture and other means of livelihood. It uses massive
quantities of sulfuric acid, which is highly toxic to the people and the environment. It also uses a coal-fired plant that spews out tons upon tons of highly toxic fumes into the atmosphere. It processes millions of
tons of low-grade nickel ore from different mines in four provinces of Caraga, while the high grade nickel ore is immediately exported.
The indiscriminate mining operations are aggravating the deforestation of Mindanao and resulting in massive soil erosion, river siltation and poisoning of the fields. They contribute greatly to the flash floods that are currently devastating large areas of Mindanao, including the death and disappearance of so many people, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and the destruction of homes, social infrastructure, agriculture and other means of livelihood.
The mining operations employ only a few local people who are contracted in a series of short-term employment and receive extremely low wages. They extract huge amounts of mineral ore worth many billions of dollars
and yet pay only a few million pesos to the reactionary government. The main beneficiaries are the imperialist countries and monopoly firms, the big compradors and the corrupt bureaucrats. After the plunder of the environment, the people are left in more widespread and deeper misery and are deprived of a future in industrial development.
2. Is the attack on the THPAL-Sumitomo unrelated to revolutionary taxation?
Answer: The highest levels of leadership in the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines have publicly made clear that logging and mining for export are totally banned and that they are therefore beyond the scope of taxation by the people’s revolutionary government. Thus, NPA offensives are being
carried out to dismantle or destroy the mining operations of imperialist and big comprador firms, especially those most destructive to the environment. You can confirm my observation from the most recent public declarations of the CPP and NDFP.
3.Does NPA receive revolutionary tax in general?
Answer: Since the beginning of the revolutionary movement, the NPA has been the tax enforcement agency of the people’s revolutionary government. The tax collected by the NPA and other tax collection agents is for the purpose of financing mainly the economic and social programs of the revolutionary movement (including production, land reform, health care, education and cultural activities) and secondarily for administration and defense.
4.Why do residents or the local people join NPA?
Answer: The residents or local people join the NPA because they regard it as their own army, defending them against the reactionary government and its military and police forces and against the foreign and domestic exploiters, organizing and mobilizing the people to defend their own rights and interests and assisting them in every possible way. The best
sons and daughters of the people join the NPA because they consider it as the main weapon of the people for carrying out the new democratic revolution through protracted people’s war.
5.How do NPA recruit residents for the revolutionary mass movement and for the NPA in particular?
Answer: First, the NPA does social investigation in order to apply the general line of people’s democratic revolution on the concrete local conditions of the people. Second, it conducts grievance meetings for the people to express themselves against the oppressors and exploiters. Third, it builds the local organs of political power and the mass
organizations of peasants, workers, youth, women, children and cultural activists. Fourth, it recruits the best sons and daughters of the people for the full-time units of the NPA as well trains as its reserve and auxiliary forces the people’s militia and the self-defense units of the mass organizations.
6.What do NPA do usually everyday?
Answer: The NPA engages in the politico-military training of its own full-time units, the people’s militia and the self-defense units. It engages in mass work, especially building the local organs of political power and the mass organizations of various types. It undertakes production for its own needs and for the needs of others. It carries out
health work, educational and cultural activities for the people. It discovers and creates the conditions for launching tactical offensives against its enemy in order to get more arms and build more NPA units.
7.How many NPA members are in the Philippines now?
Answer: The revolutionary leadership and the NPA national operational command do not issue figures about the number of Red fighters. But many people try to extrapolate figures from the publicly known number of guerrilla fronts, which is 120, by multiplying this with 50 to 120 Red fighters, depending on the estimated level of development of the
guerrilla front.
Thus, guesstimates have ranged from a minimum of 6000 to a maximum of 14,400.
Certainly, the reactionary armed forces and police are wrong in claiming that they have chopped down the NPA from 25,000 in 1986 to only 4,000 in 2011. In fact, the automatic rifle strength of the NPA was only 6,100 in 1986. But of course, in the past and at present, the strength of the full-time NPA units has been augmented by tens of thousands in the
people’s miliitia and hundreds of thousands in the self-defense units of the mass organizations.
8.How many NPA members are in Surigao del Norte now?
Answer: I do not know the exact number. They keep on increasing. Everytime the military and police forces of their enemy unleash campaigns of military suppression, with such signboards as “peace and development operations” under Oplan Bayanihan, the NPA commands and units of Surigao del Norte and the whole Caraga region seize the
initiative by flexibly using guerrilla tactics and launch their own tactical offensives to annihilate the enemy and increase their weapons.
9.Are NPA members in Surigao del Norte a lot, compared to other provinces?
Answer: Based on their well-known tactical offensives and victories, I estimate that the NPA Red commanders and fighters in Surigao del Norte are relatively big in number and are a major part of the NPA on a nationwide scale. The scale of operations against the three big mining companies last October indicates the strength of the NPA in the province.
But of course the armed strength of the NPA is also augmented by the people’s militia, self-defense units and the people in general.###
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Red salute to the NPA and the masses for punishing THPAL, TMC, and PGMC!
Ka Maria Malaya
NDFP-Northeast Mindanao
04 October 2011
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines – North-Eastern Mindanao Region (NDFP-NEMR) congratulates the red commanders and fighters of the New People’s Army under the Pulang Diwata Command and the masses who supported for successfully launching simultaneous punitive military operations on October 3, 2011 against the three largest and most destructive mining companies in Surigao del Norte: Taganito High-Pressure Acid Leaching Plant (THPAL-Sumitomo), Taganito Mining Corporation (TMC), and Platinum Group Metals Corporation (PGMC).
As the NPA carried out one of its biggest and most daring punitive actions in recent history, the AFP and PNP forces, including paramilitary units, nearby were caught flatfooted, and utterly failed to respond and reinforce immediately.
As per initial field report, 200 heavy equipments, composed of dump trucks, excavators, tractors, and 7 barges, owned by the Tag-anito Mining Corporation (TMC) were disabled and destroyed. The main and the accounting offices at TMC, including its laboratory, were totally damaged. The newly-constructed heavy-duty wharf of TMC-THPAL was also blasted using high explosives. The THPAL power plant and 1 vertical tank for gasoline were also heavily damaged. The THPAL compound is adjacent to the TMC compound.
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The link below enables further reading of the statement:
theprwcblogs.blogspot.com/2011/10/red-salute-to-npa-and-masses-for.html
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A wealth of background info linked below:
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and finally a response from the 'other crowd'......a video....get you handkerchiefs out
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Post by dodger on Aug 21, 2013 18:39:47 GMT
NPA holds 1001st Brigade HQ personnel as POW; 11 casualties in 71st IB camp blast
August 21, 2013
Daniel Ibarra
Spokesperson
NPA ComVal-Davao Gulf Sub-region Sub-regional Command
Giving justice to two victims of extra-judicial killings and to peasant victims of AFP atrocities, operatives under the Comval Davao Gulf Sub Regional Command-New People’s Army exploded its command detonated bomb inside the headquarters of the 71st Infantry Battalion in Barangay Pangibiran, Mabini town killing six AFP troops and wounding five others.
The bomb explosion last August 5 at 8pm was preceded by the arrest of Private First Class Rodello Canada Arigonan (serial number 776045), a 1001stBrigade Headquarters utility personnel. Arigonan was caught by the NPA operatives August 3, at 11pm in the vicinity of the military headquarters at Barangay Mapaang, Maco town.
Members of the Military Intelligence Battalion under the 101st Brigade-10thInfantry Division-AFP were responsible for the killing of Eddie Canon, a civilian and municipal coordinator of a progressive partylist group in Barangay San Isidro, Mawab town last May 25, and Ramil Lintas, a motorcycle driver of Barangay Calabcab, Maco town last July 25.
Indeed, it is ridiculous how Maj. Jake Obligado, CMO Battalion chief, would repeat the lie that the NPA blast violates the international humanitarian law. When, truth to tell, the AFP perpetrates the worst forms of violence in the countryside with its US-designed Oplan Bayanihan. The military’s counter-revolutionary campaign forces the evacuation and dislocation of peasants to kowtow to the interest of landgrabbers and big miners in Compostela Valley. Military units, like the children killer 71st IB, are responsible for the most despicable crimes against the people.
As the NPA keeps custody of Arigonan as its Prisoner of War, it will hold accountable elements of the reactionary armed force who continue to abuse poor peasants and indigenous peoples in the countryside. The NPA actively seeks and pursues revolutionary justice in the face of the US-Aquino regime’s continuing apathy. The hated regime condones human rights abuses that has only emboldened the AFP, PNP, paramilitary forces under the prevailing culture of impunity.
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Post by dodger on Aug 21, 2013 18:57:14 GMT
Department of Agriculture responsible for landgrabbing, environmental destruction in Mt. Sinaka
August 20, 2013
Isabel Fermiza
Spokesperson
NPA Mt. Apo Sub-Region Sub-regional Command
For threatening to damage a major source of drinking water in Arakan and parts of Davao City, and dislocating thousands of peasants in the process, Guerilla Front 53 operatives under the Mt. Apo Sub-regional Command-New People’s Army burned five heavy equipments of a dam construction project of the US-Aquino regime’s Department of Agriculture, August 18 at 2pm.
The project is linked to a planned stockfarm pasture land program in Mt. Sinaka watershed area and part of the 4,100 hectares of University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao Reservation at Brgy. Datu Ladayon, Arakan town, North Cotabato.
Without even bothering to secure a token environmental compliance certificate from the reactionary regime’s own environment agency, project proponents have went on to pursue the dam construction, at the expense of Mt. Sinaka, an important watershed area that is also home to wildlife, rich forests and endangered species.
Worse, ASEC. Dante De Lima of the Department of Agriculture has also spearheaded in bribing peasants to give up their lands and transform it into stock farms for hundreds of cattle; one cattle head would need one hectare of land. The landgrabbing in the name of a cattle project would dislocate thousands of vegetable farmers in the area.
The NPA not only targeted De Lima’s project due to its huge environmental impact and the dislocation of peasants,but also because it has committed gross abuses of workers’ rights. Daily wage for lowly dam construction workers is at P200/day with 10% deduction to be pocketed by village officials, while for stockfarm workers, P150 daily for 10 hours of work.
By damaging the agency’s backhoe, bulldozer, payloader, and two elf trucks, the NPA is sending the message that it will not tolerate destructive projects that are grossly disadvantageous to the people. The NPA punishes capitalists and reactionary agents responsible for plundering the forests, introducing projects that will further exacerbate the disastrous impact of climate change, and dislocate lowly peasants and abuse workers. Mt. Sinaka is one of the remaining forest frontiers in the boundary of Davao and North Cotabato provinces.
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Post by dodger on Aug 22, 2013 20:07:10 GMT
Communist Party mobilizes allies to help ‘Maring’ victims, offers ceasefire
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
Inquirer Southern Luzon
9:35 am | Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
LUCENA CITY—The Communist Party of the Philippines has ordered the revolutionary forces in calamity areas to help typhoon victims.
The CPP in a statement issued Wednesday evening also left the decision to New People’s Army rebels in storm-ravaged areas in National Capital Region and in the Southern Tagalog, Central Luzon and Northern Luzon regions whether to declare temporary ceasefire for an unhampered delivery of relief goods.
“It is within the prerogative of the leading committees of the CPP in the regions and commands of the NPA to determine the necessity of declaring temporary ceasefires in their respective areas,” the CPP said.
In return, the communist also demanded the temporary cessation of military attacks against NPA rebels.
“The CPP demands that the AFP cease Oplan Bayanihan suppression operations in order to allow local units of the NPA, local branches of the CPP and people’s organizations to carry out relief and rehabilitation efforts,” the CPP said.
The CPP declared that all members and branches of the CPP, as well as all NPA units in affected areas have been instructed to organize and carry out relief and rehabilitation efforts to assist typhoon victims whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed or despoiled in days of rain and floods.
The CPP also urged all its allies and sympathizers to extend support to mass organizations carrying out operations directly in the affected areas.
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