|
|
Post by dodger on Feb 25, 2014 21:09:31 GMT
 NPA raids despotic landlord’s hacienda in Negros
The New People’s Army (NPA) raided a hacienda owned by a big and despotic landlord in Barangay Camansi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on the afternoon of January 22. The Red fighters confiscated several head of sheep and burned a tractor and guard houses at the estate.
The NPA also disarmed the armed guards of the E and R Security Agency of five shotguns, a cal .38 revolver, a grenade and monocular night vision goggles.
The punitive action was implemented by a platoon of Red fighters under the NPA Armando Sumayang Command in the Southwest Negros Guerrilla Front (ASC-SNGF) against Pablo “Jin” Sola, son of the brutal former Kabankalan mayor Pablo Sola Sr. The NPA had also meted revolutionary punishment on the elder Sola in 1986.
Said Ka Andrea Guerrero, spokesperson of the ASC-SNGF, the property that had been burnt, and the firearms and heads of sheep confiscated are still not enough to compensate for the younger Sola’s acts of cruelty against the hacienda workers, which included training his guns at the farm workers and damaging and burning down their houses. The Sola family’s hacienda spans up to 133 hectares.
Guerrero likewise assailed the deployment to the hacienda of more soldiers under the 303rd Infantry Brigade led by Col. Jon Aying because of the climate of fear created among the locals. |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 1, 2014 11:42:51 GMT
NPA ambushes Philippine Army,
PNP troops in North Cotabato
 Photo from images.gmanews.tvBy Ka ISABEL FERMIZA
Spokesperson, Mt. Apo Subregional Command
NPA Southern Mindanao
The New People’s Army aimed at trouncing the 57th Infantry Battalion troops and Philippine National Police personnel during an ambush on 27 February at 3:00 pm in Barangay (village) Datu Inda, President Roxas town, North Cotabato. The tactical offensive did not target Pres. Roxas Mayor Jaime Mahimpit who was with the armed convoy. When the mayor’s gray Pajero car passed through the road, NPA operatives switched on the command-detonated explosives against 14 policemen in motorcycles and the military aboard a 6x6 truck who were closely following the mayor. The ambush wounded SPO4 Hector Castillo, who was the mayor’s escort leader, PO3 Joemer Ilagan, and PO2 Joselax Avena.
Thursday’s tactical offensive was meant to deter the 57th Infantry Battalion (Armed Forces of the Philippines) which has intensified its triad military operations in Roxas, Magpet, and Arakan towns following its turnover of Makilala and Tulunan towns to the 39th Infantry Battalion early this year. The PNP and army elements were legitimate targets, contrary to reports that Mayor Mahimpit was the object of the punitive action linked to revolutionary tax collection.
Brutal to the core but coward and desperate, the fascist troops attempt to avoid NPA ambuscades by taking cover under the mantle of civilian bureaucracy. The AFP engages Red fighters through fascist and manipulative means, by abusing the masses to deter them from participating in legitimate struggles, and by using local civilian officials for its forward deployment operations. When the AFP’s combat troops and the PNP enter guerilla bases and zones of the NPA, they pretend to be local escorts to civilian officials when their real mission is to do battle and suppress the people.
Hence, the NPA calls on local GPH (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) authorities and functionaries to cease from directly participating in the military’s offensive operations. If they do not commit serious crimes against the people and are not engaged in armed and counter-revolutionary violence, GPH authorities like Mayor Mahimpit are safe from the NPA’s punitive actions. They should focus, instead, on dispensing their civilian duties and shun military operations, intelligence activities, and hostile armed acts. They must prevail over the AFP which maintains a policy of pressuring GPH civilian officials for its civilian-military operations in the countryside.
(sgd.) Ka Isabel Fermiza
Spokesperson, NPA Mt. Apo Subregional Command |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 12, 2014 4:53:15 GMT
www.mindanaoexaminer.com/news.php?news_id=20140311105212NPA rebels own up deadly attacks in Philippines;
vow to strike at plantations, mining firms
Posted By Mindanao Examiner | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:52:12 PM 
DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 11, 2014) – Communist rebels have owned up to daring and deadly attacks on police and military targets in the southern Philippines that killed at least a dozen people.
Dencio Madrigal, a spokesman for the New People's Army-Valentine Palamine Command, said the attacks on a police base and military forces in Davao del Sur’s Matanao town was a punishment for their “reign of terror” against indigenous tribes and other communities opposing mining operations in the province.
“The March 10 police headquarters raid and ambush demonstrated the NPA’s determination to punish the fascist AFP and PNP units operating in Davao del Sur and its boundaries. The 39th Infantry Battalion remains as security forces and fascist thugs of Glencore Xstrata - a mining giant poised to continue to exploit the nearly 100,000 hectares of mining-rich ancestral lands of Lumad Blaans and peasants in the region.”
“The AFP and PNP units in Matanao and other towns in Davao del Sur deserved to be disarmed and punished because in their defense of Xstrata mining, they have killed, injured, discharged aerial bombs, all part of their reign of terror against the Lumad and settlers communities who have fiercely battled against mining since 1992 when the project was still under the Western Mining Corporation,” Madrigal said in a statement sent to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
Madrigal said rebel forces seized seven M16 automatic rifles and several ammunition vests, two 9 mm pistols, one .45-caliber pistol, and a radio communication set from the police headquarters. He said the raid left 3 policemen and two other lawmen were killed in the fighting that also left two rebels dead.
He also accused the police of coddling drug pushers and other criminal syndicates in the province. “They are, thus, legitimate targets of the people’s army at any time of the year,” he said.
Madrigal also condemned the arrest of 9 innocent civilians on suspicion they were part of the NPA forces that attacked in Matanao town. “Their failure at intelligence work, notwithstanding, the Matanao PNP trained its eyes against nine hapless civilians, namely, Renante Urot, Joey Alberca, Rufoboy Gama, Laudemer Gama, Noel Morangit, Roger Natonton, Julio Sales, John Rey Pabillo and Christopher Sales.”
“The police tagged them as NPA members and arrested the group after the raid, at 7 in the morning. The civilians were on their way to attend a fiesta at Barangay Savoy in Matanao when they were illegitimately arrested,” he said.
Madrigal said 9 soldiers were also killed, including Lt. Ludevico Alejo; and 7 more wounded after rebels remotely detonated a military truck carrying reinforcements in the village of Asbang. He also dismissed allegations by the Eastern Mindanao Command that the NPA has been using landmines.
“It is hypocritical for the Philippine government and the AFP to condemn the NPA’s continued use of command detonated explosives as the latter's main weapon of choice for guerrilla warfare. The country’s mining laws and the state’s counter-insurgency policy, the Oplan Bayanihan, have resulted in the massive and indiscriminate pillage of resources, killings, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilian communities,” he said, adding mining companies are legitimate target of the NPA.
NPA targets
Jorge Madlos, a regional rebel spokesman, has previously warned mining firms and fruit plantations in the southern Philippines.
“Military operations in Mindanao have escalated and have become more extensive with the aim to thwart the ever growing and widespread people’s protest against destructive mining operations and plantations owned by imperialists, the big comprador bourgeois and big landlords. “
“After having ravaged the environment by way of wanton logging, imperialists and the local ruling clique insidiously intend to inflict even greater devastation to the environment; and, to deprive, oppress and exploit further the Lumads, Moro, peasants and workers in order to satiate their greed for super profit,” he said.
Madlos said aming their targets are Russell Mines and Minerals, Apex Mining Corp. and Philco in southern Mindanao; Dolefil, Del Monte and Sumifru plantations in northern Mindanao; TVI Resource Development Philippines whose operations in ancestral domain of indigenous Subanen and Moro tribes are being opposed by the rebel group.
“If one recalls, more than 400 families were forced to evacuate their ancestral lands because of TVI and the ruthless military operations that ensued to protect it in Buug, Zamboanga del Sur. In order to defend the people’s human rights and general wellbeing, the NPA launched tactical offensives against TVI as well as against units of the AFP-PNP-CAFGU protecting it, such as the ambush on February 2012 that hit elements of the army intelligence group operating on the behest of TVI and the imposition of the local government to allow TVI mining operations on Subanen ancestral lands is one of the bases the NPA raided on April 9, 2012 the PNP station in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur,” Madlos said.
NPA rebels also intercepted a group of army soldiers who were using a borrowed truck from TVI and disarmed them in Diplahan town in Zamboanga Sibugay province two years ago. The rebels also burned the truck before releasing the soldiers.
“In view of these events, the NDFP in Mindanao calls upon the Lumad and Moro peoples, peasants and workers, religious and other sectors to further strengthen their unity and their courage to oppose the interests of imperialist mines and plantations, which are exceedingly damaging to Mindanao, to its people and to the environment. We call upon the units of the NPA in Mindanao to be ever more daring in their defense of people’s interests against the greed and rapacity of the local ruling classes and their imperialist master,” Madlos said.
TVI Resource Development Philippines has repeatedly denied all accusations against them. It recently ended its gold mining operation in Mount Canatuan in Zamboanga del Norte’s Siocon town after several years of operations and now has a gold-silver project in the town of Bayog in Zamboanga del Sur province and a nickel plant in Agusan del Norte province.
It is among mining companies operating in Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte that had been attacked in the past by Muslim and communist rebels. (Mindanao Examiner)
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 12, 2014 8:36:56 GMT
NPA punishes Davao Sur PNP, 39th IB in successful tactical offensives
March 11, 2014  Dencio Madrigal
Commander
NPA Far South Mindanao Regional Operations Command (Valentin Palamine Command)For less than 10 minutes, two platoons of Red fighters under the Valentine Palamine Command of the New People’s Army Far Southern Mindanao Region confiscated seven M16 rifles and several ammunition vests, two 9 mm pistols, 1 caliber .45 pistol, and 2 vhf radios when they effectively assaulted the Matanao PNP Headquarters in Matanao, Davao del Sur at around 4:50 in the morning March 10, 2014.
Police personnel resisted the NPAs who, disguised as AFP soldiers, commanded them to give up their positions and surrender the firearms. Three PNP members were killed while two were wounded in the ensuing firefight that, unfortunately, took the lives of two Red fighters namely, Ka Jabjab and Ka Rico.
That the enemy was clearly taken by surprise was apparent in its automatic rejoinder to the successful tactical offensive by pegging it merely as part of the forthcoming celebrations of the 45th year anniversary of the NPA. Davao del Sur PNP officers and members are notorious coddlers of illegal drug pushers and other criminal syndicates. They are, thus, legitimate targets of the people’s army at any time of the year.
Their failure at intelligence work, notwithstanding, the Matanao PNP trained its eyes against nine hapless civilians, namely, Renante Urot, Joey Alberca, Rufoboy Gama, Laudemer Gama, Noel Morangit, Roger Natonton, Julio Sales, John Rey Pabillo and Christopher Sales. The police tagged them as NPA members and arrested the group after the raid, at 7 in the morning. The civilians were on their way to attend a sitio fiesta at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, when they were illegitimately accosted.
On the other hand, battle-weary, overextended and defeated from its recent engagements with NPA units under NPA-Southern Mindanao Region, the 39th Infantry Battalion responded to the police assault and sent its troops at past 9:00 am in the morning at Brgy. Asbang, Matanao. NPA operatives discharged command detonated explosives against the passing military truck, killing 9 of the AFP troops, among them was 2nd Lt. Ludevico Alejo, and seriously wounding seven other soldiers.
It is hypocritical for the GPH and the AFP to condemn the NPA’s continued use of command detonated explosives as the latter’s main weapon of choice for guerrilla warfare. The country’s mining laws and the state’s counter-insurgency policy, the Oplan Bayanihan, have resulted in the massive and indiscriminate pillage of resources, killings, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilian communities.
The March 10 police headquarters raid and ambush demonstrated the NPA’s determination to punish the fascist AFP and PNP units operating in Davao del Sur and its boundaries. The 39th IB remains as security forces and fascist thugs of Glencore Xstrata large-scale mining, a mining giant poised to continue to exploit the nearly 100,000 hectares of mining-rich ancestral lands of Lumad Blaans and peasants in the region.
The AFP/PNP units in Matanao and other towns in Davao del Sur deserved to be disarmed and punished because in their defense of Xstrata mining, they have killed, injured, discharged aerial bombs, all part of their reign of terror against the Lumad and settlers communities who have fiercely battled against mining since 1992 when the project was still under the Western Mining Corporation.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 12, 2014 19:32:55 GMT
1 soldier dies, 5 wounded in Misamis
by Camcer Ordonez Imam
March 12, 2014
Bonifacio, Misamis Occidental – A soldier was killed while five others were wounded in an encounter with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the tri-boundary of this city and the towns of Don Victoriano and Bonifacio late Tuesday.
The soldiers belonging to the 55th Infantry (Vigilant) Battalion fought the rebels along with the 15th Division Rifle Company and police operatives.
An undetermined number of casualties on the enemy side were reported by authorities.
The encounter was an offshoot of the joint Armed Forces of the Philippines-Philippine National Police (AFP-PNP) operation conducted in the area against rebels operating in the Mount Malindang ranges to end the insurgency problem in the province of Misamis Occidental.
Lt. Col Gerry Besana, battalion commander of the 55th IB, and officer-in-charge-provincial director Sr. Supt. Archival Macala of the Misamis Occidental PNP Police Office, were in the tactical operation center, commanding the joint operation under the supervision of the 101st Army Brigade.
The police company is jointly augmented by the 55th IB and the 15th DRC of the Army’s First Division under the operational control of the Vigilant Troopers.
The 55th Infantry Battalion have been deployed in the area, where a running gun-battle between the disintegrated NPA rebels and army troopers in the area have been ongoing.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 12, 2014 21:25:10 GMT
Soldier killed, 4 wounded as fighting rages between soldiers,
NPA in Compostela Valley
By: Jaime Sinapit, InterAksyon.com March 12, 2014 1:11 PM  Guerrillas of the NPA's Mt. Alip Command in Mindanao perform during a celebration
of the Communist Party of the Philippines' 45th founding anniversary. (photo by Edwin Espejo)
InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE - 2:15 p.m.) At least one soldier was killed and four others were wounded Wednesday morning in a landmine explosion followed by fighting between government forces and New People’s Army fighters in Compostela Valley province that was continuing as of this posting.
Captain Ernesto Carolina, spokesman of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division,said one of the wounded was an officer, although he declined to identify the casualties.
He added that the rebels had suffered an undetermined number of casualties in the fighting in Maco town.
“Reportedly, our soldiers were able to detect the presence of NPA rebels and seconds later a landmine exploded ... followed by a firefight. The rebels broke into groups and escaped to unknown directions,” Carolina said.
“We’ve already four soldiers wounded and extricated from the battle zone. The NPA rebels were dragging the casualties as our troops continue to press the attack,” he added.
Wednesday’s clash came two days after guerrillas of NPA Front 72 raided the police station in Matanao, Davao del Sur, killing two policemen and wounding three others, and hauling off several firearms.
In the aftermath of the raid, seven soldiers of the 39th Infantry Battalion on their way to join pursuit operations against the rebels were killed and eight others wounded when their truck was hit by a command-detonated landmine. |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 12, 2014 21:40:41 GMT
Suspected NPA rebels burn nickel firm’s dump trucks
By Redempto D. Anda Inquirer Southern Luzon PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines — Suspected New People’s Army rebels burned two dump trucks working for a nickel mining company operating in the town of Sofronio Española, southern Palawan Sunday night, police said Monday morning.
An initial report received by the Provincial Police Office in Palawan showed that eight communist rebels flagged down the vehicles while on their way to the pier in Sitio Ulnog, Barangay Pulot Interior in Sofronio Espanola town to unload ore from the stockpiles of Citinickel Mining Corp. for shipment at 8:30 p.m.
After seizing the vehicles and freeing its crew, the rebels doused the trucks with gasoline and set them on fire on the road side before fleeing.
Insp. Pearl Marzo, the provincial police office spokeperson, and the spokesman of the Citinickel Mining Corp. both confirmed the attack in separate statements. Government troops have been deployed to pursue the rebels believed to be operating around the area.
“We are still completing the investigation,” Marzo told Philippine Daily Inquirer. The NPA in Palawan has not released a statement concerning the attack.
Pamela Miguel, Citinickel spokesperson, said in a radio interview Monday morning that they did not receive any demand from the NPA before the attack.
“I am not aware of any demand, not in my level,” she said in Filipino. Miguel added that the trucks were owned by a trucking contractor of Citinickel, Cherry Construction Inc.
Citinickel was recently a subject of a complaint raised by indigenous communities in Espanola about the company’s failure to release their royalty share from the mining operations’ profit as required by the Philippine Mining Code.
“Ang kabuuan hindi pa nairerelease (the entire amount has yet to be released) but we have made partial releases for scholarships that they asked. That was coming from their royalty funds,” Miguel said.
Citinickel is majority-owned by Caroline Tanchay’s Oriental Peninsula Resources Group that controls several large blocks of mining claims in the nickel-rich southern Palawan towns of Sofronio Espanola and Narra.
Read more: newsinfo.inquirer.net/583979/suspected-npa-rebels-burn-nickel-firms-dump-trucks#ixzz2vmqNkFnj Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 13, 2014 12:54:03 GMT
 English subtitles-click to enable Block the US-Aquino regime
The Filipino people face a great battle in their historic defense of the nation........... |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 13, 2014 13:31:01 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20140307/people-s-militia-municipal-command-formedPeople’s militia municipal command formed
The Milisyang Bayan Municipal Command (MBMC) or the people’s militia command at the municipal level was successfully formed in a guerrilla front in Subregion 4 of the Southern Mindanao Region on December 21-22. (The MBMC is also known as the MCU or Militia Coordinating Unit in other regions).
The establishment was accomplished through a conference attended by unit commands of seven people’s militia platoons in a cluster of barangays in the guerrilla front. The conference drafted a one-year program of action.
Part of the conference program involved discussions on the context and significance of raising the level of their organization. Building the MBMC falls within the overall call to raise people’s war to a higher level. These were all tackled in more detail during discussions regarding the military situation in the area and the defense of the guerrilla base.
The decision to form the MBMC was arrived at after an assessment of the people’s militia’s level of development. The militia members already comprise a battalion and self-defense units had already been established in each sub-village or sitio in eight barangays. These units could be actively mobilized for military operations, monitoring enemy movements and other tasks. In ten surrounding villages, militia units had either already been formed or are in the process of being built. Political education has already been conducted in all people’s militia units, with some having attended military training.
The leading Party committee in the area pointed out the need for the people’s militia to coordinate at the level of the village cluster or municipality. There are situations where militia units need to cooperate in order to effectively perform their tasks in advancing guerrilla warfare.
The people’s militia’s greater tasks highlight the mass character of guerrilla warfare. The MBMC also serves as a partner of fulltime guerrilla units in the coordinated, systematic and organized mobilization of every militia unit.
The delegates enthusiastically asked questions and aired their views as they discussed the orientation, structure, rights and duties of the MBMC. As an operations command at the municipal level, the MBMC’s basic task is to mobilize and coordinate the people’s militia and self-defense units. The members of the MBMC are leaders of militia units in their respective villages.
The MBMC is directly under the Party section or subsection in the locality. Like the NPA, it abides by the Party’s absolute leadership. It is also under the NPA front operations command. The MBMC is likewise under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee through the latter’s Subcommittee on Defense.
After the actual establishment, the delegates discussed and ratified the MBMC’s one-year program, which includes the conduct of special trainings for the people’s militia on sniping and the use of explosives as well as the regular Basic Politico-Military Training. A medical training has also been scheduled to provide medical officers for every militia squad. The MBMC immediately set the date of the trainings and the designated number of attendees from every unit.
The conference took note of the economic needs of the families of militia members and addressed the problem of rice and other food supplies. They agreed that their communal farms must have an area of at least two hectares. Idle plots and land donated by allies would be converted to communal farms. They will also be planting trees.
The conference ended with speeches from the newly appointed members of the unit command of the MBMC, who all affirmed their readiness to take on their duties. They called on all their comrades to rev up their collective action.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 13, 2014 15:58:16 GMT
www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20140313_afp-s-inherent-weaknesses-imperil-the-lives-of-its-own-troops-civilian-medical-personnelAFP’s inherent weaknesses imperil the lives of its own troops, civilian medical personnel
March 13, 2014  Rubi Del Mundo
Spokesperson
NDFP Southern Mindanao Chapter
The National Democratic Front Regional Council upholds the ongoing process of indemnification to Mr. Genaro Doronio Dumayas, Ms. Bonita dela Cruz, Mr. Arnel Comandante Veloroso and Mr. Alberto Simbajon Cabual who were injured during the New People’s Army ambush in Brgy. Managa, Bansalan, Davao del Sur on March 2, 2014. This is to strengthen the self-acting apology and restitution declared by the NPA Southern Mindanao Regional Command, three days after the incident.
In contrast, officials of the AFP and the US-Aquino regime continued to exonerate themselves from the March 2 ambush even as they remained responsible for endangering the lives of the medical responders. And they continue to put the lives of medical personnel and even ordinary soldiers in peril with the AFP’s inherent weaknesses, ineptitude and corruption. They continue to take exception to the revolutionary forces’ use of command detonated explosives when their own flaws and mercenary policies have led to the loss of more civilian lives and property.
The AFP receives one of the highest, if not the biggest slice of people’s money, but these precious funds are lost to AFP’s greedy generals, while Army units suffer from insufficient logistics in the battlefield. The Bansalan incident greatly exposes this glaring irony.
Medical responders were sent by the enemy to the combat field eight hours after its first engagement with NPA units earlier at 11am of March 2 which left scores of soldiers dead and wounded. The Army had to employ civilian medical responders like the PDRRMC and the Red Cross, lacking as they are of their own qualified combat life-savers, forward medical facilities and transportation. The lack of or absence of medical evacuation unit in the Army’s field units is certainly not the fault of its lowly soldiers but by the AFP’s highest echelons who have clearly misappropriated people’s funds to feed the affluent lifestyle of their own generals. Despite the supposed superiority of their weaponry, logistics and personnel, because of its corruption, the AFP exposes itself as an easy target to the people’s army.
In the March 2 Bansalan incident, the medical personnel were also ordered by the AFP not to use sirens and blinkers on the ambulances, in a bid to conceal the identity of the medical personnel while in transit to a combat battle field. By violating standard operating procedures and by not ensuring that the medical units are recognizable, the AFP risked their lives, imperiled their safety and made them de facto targets of attacks. The AFP has made a gross negligence in preventing them and their transports from being identifiable and has failed to adopt methods and procedures to make it possible for them to be recognizable through their distinctive emblem and signals.
The People’s Democratic Government regards in high esteem the medical responders, aid groups and institutions who risk their lives even as they serve notorious Army units like the 39th IB who are responsible for the grave human rights abuses in Davao del Sur, Davao City and North Cotabato. In the days following the March 2 incident, we have instituted measures to assist the four rescuers, overcoming security and logistical limitations. While acknowledging that casualties are a reality in the ongoing civil war in the country, we sincerely make amends with the knowledge that stricter observance of last minute intelligence work would have prevented the injury of non-legitimate targets such as medical responders.
In the exercise of its duly constituted political authority, the People’s Democratic Government abides by its own justice system and recognizes the efforts made by the NPA Southern Mindanao Regional Command to impose appropriate sanctions against the responsible NPA operatives who have committed the prohibited act. As signatory to the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, the NDF assumes its separate duty and responsibility with regards to protecting the principles of IHL in accordance with its own principles, organization and circumstance (Part VI, Final Provision, Article 1 ). Hence, it is idiotic for the AFP and the GPH to demand the surrender of the responsible persons of the Bansalan incident when their laws and justice system are inapplicable to such persons.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 16, 2014 5:37:17 GMT
2 soldiers killed in another NPA landmine attack
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on March 15 2014 3:30 pm MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 15 March) – Two more soldiers died and three others were wounded in another landmine explosion supposedly perpetrated by the New People’s Army this morning, the military said.
But this time, the explosions happened in Magpet, North Cotabato, according to Capt. William Rodriguez, spokesman of the Army’s 1002nd Infantry Brigade.
Rodriguez said the soldiers attacked in Magpet were the same soldiers tasked to run after the NPA rebels responsible in last week’s attacks, including exploding a landmine, in Matanao, Davao del Sur that left seven soldiers and two policemen killed.
He said the firefight this morning in Sitio Timodos, Barangay Manobisa started at 9:55 a.m. and lasted for an hour.
The military claimed they discovered blood stains in the escape route used by the NPA rebels. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. In broad daylight, a firefight. Red Partizans pitted against regular troops, elite Rangers no less. The engagement lasted an hour. Read more www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2014/03/15/2-soldiers-killed-in-another-npa-landmine-attack/ |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 16, 2014 17:42:03 GMT
The fifth video of the series "Istatus" featuring the revolutionary victories in Northeast Mindanao Region.
Ka Maria Malaya relates how the revolutionary forces, especially the New People's Army in the region frustrate the regime's Oplan Bayanihan by launching successful tactical offensives.
Agrarian revolution launched by the CPP, NPA benefits tens of thousand families in the region.
(watch on YOUTUBE, get benefit of English subtitles)
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 18, 2014 8:35:03 GMT
 21-gun salute for all the heroes of the New People’s Army and the people’s democratic revolution
March 17, 2014 Communist Party of the Philippines
On the occasion of the 45-year milestone of the New People’s Army (NPA), let us give the highest honors to all fallen Red commanders and fighters of the NPA and heroes and martyrs of the Filipino people’s national democratic revolution.
Let us pay tribute as well to all the eminent proletarian revolutionaries who have persisted in four decades of arduous struggle and who continue to help lead and guide the people’s democratic revolution as it set its sights on the next higher phase of the people’s war.
It is with their sacrifices and selflessness that the Filipino people have achieved great victories in waging their national democratic revolutionary struggle. Let us recall and have their names etched forever in the Filipino people’s granite wall memorial which we shall erect at the moment of complete victory of the people’s democratic revolution.
Let us make use of the upcoming 45th anniversary of the NPA’s establishment to celebrate the people’s victories in waging revolutionary armed struggle, carrying out agrarian revolution to smash land monopolies and improve the conditions of the peasant masses and building the organs of the people’s democratic government from the ground up. Let us prepare to wave bigger struggles as we set our sights to achieving greater victories in the coming years.
Let us also celebrate the outstanding victories in democratic mass struggles achieved by the Filipino people as they carry forward the struggle for national and social liberation. In the past four decades, they have overthrown two reactionary puppet states and are determined to put an end to the current puppet, oppressive, mendacious and corrupt regime.
On March 29, 2014, all regional, subregional and front commands of the NPA and units of the people’s militias under their leadership will fall in formation to parade the flags of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and the People’s Democratic Government and subsequently raise them high above the celebration grounds.
At high noon, prior to the general public singing of the Internationale, NPA commands and people’s militia units in formation will give a 21-gun salute. Depending on prevailing military and security conditions, different NPA commands and people’s militias can modify this plan by either extending, abbreviating or rendering an alternative gun salute.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 18, 2014 8:45:56 GMT
NDF-SMR order of indemnification for Davao del Sur medical responders
March 17, 2014 Rubi Del Mundo
Spokesperson
NDFP Southern Mindanao Chapter
Third Party Facilitators, comprised of church people, medical practitioners and other advocates, is hereby requested to expedite the public dispensation of indemnification today, March 17, 2014 in Digos City.
The order acts upon the apology and recommendations submitted by the Southern Mindanao Regional Command of the New People’s Army. This is a unilateral exercise of revolutionary political authority by a government of the working class and peasantry that has its own legal and judicial system and rules in accordance with its political principles and circumstances.
The NDF-SMR Order of Indemnification is in compliance with the Geneva Conventions for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces, the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), the NDFP Declaration of Undertaking to Apply the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977, the Constitutional Guide for Establishing the People’s Democratic Government, and the Basic Rules of the New People’s Army.
The revolutionary government is intrinsically founded on the absolute respect for human rights and international humanitarian law. It is waging a just war for the genuine emancipation of the majority exploited Filipino people. It wages a war to dismantle the ruling system and in particular, targets the fascist machinery of the state, the AFP. It holds in high esteem members of the medical and emergency response profession who have the noble occupation of preserving life amid strenuous circumstances.
Thus, we condemn any attack against this profession and any act that violates the rights of its members. We denounce the AFP for endangering medical responders by concealing their identities in the battlefield and by putting their lives in danger.
We deplore the revival of Alsa Masa and the maintenance of state-sponsored paramilitary groups or armed vigilante groups in Davao del Sur. The Alsa Masa will not only be used to deter the New People’s Army but it will also target civilians, ordinary peasants and progressive leaders. By sponsoring Alsa Masa, covert vigilante groups and arming civilians, local GPH officials and the AFP are opening the floodgates for more human rights atrocities.
Through the rabid Oplan Bayanihan, the AFP and the US-Aquino regime violate the rights of the Filipino people by subjecting civilians to grave forms of atrocities and serious crimes like extra-judicial killings, torture, enforced disappearance, and massive displacement. Up to now, the AFP and the current regime have not made any serious indemnification to any of its victims, nor has it even approximated the earnestness made by the NPA when it comes to rectifying its errors. Every day, the Filipino people witness how the GPH continues to make a mockery of its own justice system by pampering criminals, cheats, and the corrupt in its own government. Its judicial system is for the exoneration of perpetrators and the perpetuation of exploitation by the ruling class. |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Mar 18, 2014 10:47:00 GMT
Ka Maria Roja Banua Takes Off as the New Voice of Bicol’s Revolution
March 13, 2014  Maria Roja Banua
Spokesperson
NDFP Bicol Chapter
The National Democratic Front-Bicol introduces its new spokesperson in the person of Ka Maria Roja Banua. Carrying on the late Ka Greg Bañares’ deferred task as brought about by his martyrdom, Ka Roja continues NDF-Bicol’s further mandate of broadcasting the revolutionary standpoint of Bicol region’s oppressed and exploited masses in their struggle for a genuinely free, just, and progressive society.
Leaping off from such stance, Ka Maria Roja Banua, in behalf of the NDF-Bicol, salutes the Communist Party of the Philippines-Bicol’s creditable leadership in advancing the people’s revolutionary movement. In her statement “Pahayag ng Rehiyong Bikol sa Ika-45 Taong Anibersaryo ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas”, Ka Roja celebrates CPP-Bicol’s victories in the ideological, political, and organizational lines of work. According to the NDF-Bicol’s new spokesperson, the Party’s 45 years of firm grasp and practice of the revolutionary theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism has resulted to an ever-strengthening organization sharpening itself in wisdom to combat imperialism and local counter-revolution.
The revolutionary movement in the region led by the CPP-Bicol prides itself in its resolute exertions in fulfilling the requisites contributing to the national direction of completing the advanced sub-stage of the strategic defensive of the people’s war. In doing so, the Party in the region is now fortified by more than ten thousand members that fervently study Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as the foundation in waging revolution. These Party members are deeply-rooted among hundreds of thousands of Bicolano masses that acknowledge the CPP’s leadership and extend their efforts to further the people’s war.
Ka Maria Roja Banua likewise states the establishment of more than ten guerrilla fronts in the region, which are aimed to develop into at least 20 in the coming few years. In these guerrilla fronts, programs of agrarian revolution are being implemented and various types of cooperation in agricultural production are undertaken in order to provide for the people’s needs, along with yielding the mass organizations’ support to the armed struggle. In the same way as in many parts of the Bicol mainland, revolutionaries in Masbate are implementing the maximum program of land distribution. And inasmuch as agrarian revolution greatly benefits the peasant masses, Party members as well as New People’s Army recruits consequently surge from their ranks.
In this connection, Ka Roja denounces the 9th ID Philippine Army’s deceit of a “weakened” NPA and revolutionary movement in the region. On the contrary, voluntary enlistment in the people’s army continue to expand in Bicol’s more than ten guerrilla fronts. These NPA platoons, augmented by thousands of militia units and barrio self-defense corps, continue to render defeats on enemy forces and frustrate their offensives against NPA units. These are well exhibited in the Presentacion ambush of May 2010 in Camarines Sur, the Maot PDT raid of April 2012 in Camarines Norte, the Camalig ambush of May 2013 in Albay, and the Irosin counter-defensive of July 2013 in Sorsogon.
Among the significant victories of the NPA-Bicol is the frustration of Oplan Bayanihan’s aim to defeat the people’s revolutionary movement in the region. Aside from performing military tasks, the NPA is well loved by the masses because their army likewise participate in production, conduct cultural work, and carry out various social services. Thus, the Party, the people’s army, and the masses are as bonded as ever.
Also, Ka Roja values the mass movement for having struck heavy blows against RP-US Balikatan, Oplan Bayanihan, the Pork Barrel System, and relentless increases in oil prices. Militant Bicolano masses have also determinedly pushed for sectoral issues such as the Coco Levy Fund and anti-GMO campaigns, and have fought various other anti-people policies and programs of the US-Noynoy Aquino regime. Ka Roja notes that the legal and democratic struggles in the urban areas, as well as the legal peasant struggles in the lowlands of Bicol, have also produced scores of activists and are therefore fountainheads of Party members in the white areas.
In concluding her statement, Ka Roja expresses the NDF-Bicol’s optimism in achieving the National Democratic Revolution’s victory in the forthcoming years. The CPP-Bicol, the Romulo Jallores Command, and the NDF-Bicol hold on to this confidence based on the victories reaped from across the guerrilla fronts and guerrilla zones of the region, as well as from all over the country. The year 2014 and the succeeding years will bear witness to Bicolano revolutionaries advancing the people’s war replete with resoluteness and fervor.
The NDF-Bicol’s new spokesperson ends: “Victory is certain with the CPP-MLM’s correct leadership. The global crisis of imperialism and the resulting trembling of the country’s social system fan the flames of anger of a people gravely subjugated by exploitation and poverty. The surging of the masses in their millions ardently establishing people’s democratic governments across the country, coupled with a strengthening people’s army that will crush the puppet republic’s armed forces and their US imperialist masters, give full confidence to the revolutionary movement and the people to march towards complete victory.” |
|
