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Post by dodger on Dec 15, 2013 16:31:04 GMT
NPA kills one soldier, injures another
ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 12/15/2013 6:38 PM | Updated as of 12/15/2013 6:38 PM
MANILA – Alleged members of the New People's Army (NPA) killed one elite soldier and injured another during an ambush in San Fernando town in Bukidnon on Saturday night.
Earlier in the day, the rebels also raided the Don Victoriano Chiongbian town police station in Misamis Occidental and sequestered a number of firearms which include an M203 grenade launcher, nine handguns, a cal. 60 machine gun, seven armalite rifles, and various ammunition.
According to Captain Christian Uy, spokesman of the Philippine Army's 4th Infantry Division, the ambush in San Fernando happened at 8 p.m.
Uy said that the troops were sent to Barangay Bunakaw in San Fernando after the army received reports confirming the rebels’ presence in the area. When they were already returning to their camp, they were attacked by roughly five rebels.
"The rebels withdrew as the troops returned fire," said Uy.
Uy reported that the soldier who was killed is a private first class while the injured holds a corporal rank.
The army refused to reveal the soldiers’ identities until their families have been duly notified.
Uy said the series of attacks is part of the celebration of the 45th foundation anniversary of the NPA’s political arm, the Communist Party of the Philippines, on December 26.
"They just want to project that they are still a force to reckon with when their strength continues to decline. They usually do this when their anniversary is approaching. What they want to celebrate is the number of people they kill.”
The incident is the third encounter between the rebels and the government soldiers since the former attacked the Kibawe town police station in Bukidnon last Thursday.
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Post by dodger on Dec 16, 2013 8:30:22 GMT
NPA landmine factory discovered
By Alexis Romero, The Philippine Star
Posted at 12/14/2013 9:41 AM | Updated as of 12/14/2013 9:41 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Soldiers have discovered a landmine factory owned by the New People’s Army in Loreto town in Agusan del Sur.
Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) spokesman Capt. Alberto Caber said at least 163 pieces of landmines were recovered from the factory in Sitio Mampait in Barangay Kauswagan last Wednesday.
Caber said security forces located the landmine factory based on information relayed by residents near the area.
“The use of landmines is a violation of the provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian law,” he said.
Communist rebels have claimed that their explosives are legitimate weapons of war and are allowed by existing international treaties. They said their landmines are command-detonated explosives and not pressure-triggered to ensure the safety of civilians.
Eastmincom chief Lt. Gen. Ricardo Cruz III said the factory is the biggest landmine facility discovered so far.
“The National Democratic Front wants to talk peace with the government. But they still continue to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. It is clear that the NDF are not really sincere about peace after all,” he said.
Caber said a total of 453 landmines had exploded in Eastern Mindanao since 2010, leaving 128 persons dead and 325 others wounded, apart from causing damage to several properties
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Post by dodger on Dec 16, 2013 8:39:46 GMT
CPP belittles AFP discovery of NPA munitions factory
December 16, 2013  Communist Party of the Philippines
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) belittled the significance of the discovery by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of “one of many” munitions factories of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Agusan del Sur. The Eastern Command of the AFP announced over the weekend that it seized 130 pieces of explosives in an NPA factory which AFP soldiers chanced upon in Loreto, Agusan del Sur.
“The claims made by the AFP that the explosives can ‘destroy a city when detonated at the same time’ is empty bragging in a vain attempt to puff-up the significance of their chance discovery.”
“In reality, the reported discovery by the AFP of an NPA munitions will have very little impact on the advance of the Filipino people’s revolutionary armed struggle,” said the CPP. “Over the past several years, the NPA has been maintaining scores of mobile munitions factories across the country, mostly managed and run by units of the people’s militias under the guidance of their respective NPA commands.”
“The establishment and production of these munitions factories are a mass undertaking and have been carried out in many of the more than 110 guerrilla fronts,” pointed out the CPP. “The peasant masses and their Red fighters undergo rigorous training in setting up these factories in the politico-military academies being run by the NPA.”
The CPP said further that the mass production by the peasant masses of explosive ordnance is part of the expansion and intensification of people’s war where the people and their people’s army arm themselves with both indigenous and manufactured weapons, with the aim of seizing more weapons from the fascist soldiers of the AFP."
“These factories have supplied units of the NPA and people’s militias with the necessary ordnance to carry out attacks in order to stop the fascist troopers of the AFP from waging their campaigns of suppression and brutality against the peasant masses and people in the guerrilla zones,” added the CPP. |
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Post by dodger on Dec 16, 2013 8:48:51 GMT
Aquino’s anti-NPA explosives propaganda
a smokescreen for aerial bombings—CPP
December 16, 2013 Communist Party of the Philippines 
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today blasted at Benigno Aquino III’s “severe criticism of the use of command-detonated explosives by the NPA as nothing but a smokescreen to camouflage the indiscriminate and brutal aerial bombing campaigns being carried out by his armed forces in the countryside in their increasingly desperate aim to reduce the people’s armed resistance to inconsequentiality by year’s end.”
The CPP issued this statement in reaction to a statement yesterday by Aquino lauding the AFP for chancing upon an NPA munitions factory in Loreto town, Agusan del Sur. Aquino went on to criticize the NPA, saying “only combatants should be involved in fighting… (b)ut these land mines kill or injure people regardless of whether they are combatants or not.”
“Benigno Aquino III is engaging in the duplicitous game of misdirection by severely criticizing the NPA for using small-scale explosives against the AFP while ordering his armed forces to drop large-scale killer bombs from M-520 attack helicopters and indiscriminately firing 105m howitzer canons against undetermined targets, mostly directed towards civilian communities and farms,” said the CPP.
“He is deliberately circulating misinformation about NPA command-detonated land mines and explosives with his claims that these are indiscriminate,” said the CPP. “The NPA’s command-detonated explosives are, in fact, very discriminate. They are detonated only against specific military targets engaged in combat.”
“In contrast, it is the AFP’s aerial bombing runs, the howitzer canon fires and machine gun strafing that are not only indiscriminate but cause widespread and intense damage,” pointed out the CPP.
The most recent aerial bombing campaign was carried out by the AFP from November 18 to December 4 in Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley. It also carried out an aerial bombing run in Malibcong town, Abra towards the end of May, and another one on August 29-30 in Sagada and parts of Bontoc, Mountain Province. Such bombing campaigns have endangered the lives of, and traumatized, civilians in nearby communities. They have also resulted in widespread damage to agricultural fields, natural formations and watershed areas.
The AFP also carried out an indiscriminate aerial bombing run in the three-week siege of Zamboanga City last September, causing widespread fires, the destruction of tens of thousands of homes and the forcible evacuation of more than a hundred thousand people.
The CPP reiterated its call for an intensified local and international campaign to expose and demand an end to the aerial bombing campaigns being carried out by the AFP. |
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Post by dodger on Dec 16, 2013 9:29:01 GMT
NPA – North Abra attacked Philippine Army Detachment
in Lacub
And warned Golden Lake Mining Company
December 16, 2013   NPA North Abra Front Operations Command
(Procopio Tauro Front NPA-North Abra)
“This is a continuity of a series of punitive attacks against the 41st IB due to continuing human rights violations and will also serve as a warning to Golden Lake and to Lacub LGU officials who are hellbent in imposing the operation of large-scale mining.”
This is the stern pronouncement of Danreb Bringgas, spokesperson of Procopio Tauro Front – NPA North Abra regarding harassment operations conducted last December 15, 2013 against the Bantugo Detachment of Charlie Company, 41st IBPA in Poblacion, Lacub, Abra. The attack by a team from the PTF started at 6am.
According to the spokesperson, the 41st IB has long been serving as Security Force of large-scale mining interests. They are also being used to pressure and terrorize the masses who are opposing entry of large-scale mining, such as what happened during the bogus FPIC (“Free” and Prior “Informed Consent”) Process last May 2012 in Lacub, Abra. Aside from this, the 41st IB continuously violates rules of war as mandated by International Humanitarian Law against using civilians as human shields, in the CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) stating clearly that military units should not encamp in populated areas, and in the IPRA (Indigenous People’s Rights Act) that prohibits encampment and military operations in ancestral lands without prior consent of the indigenous peoples. These were further strengthened by a UNICEF declaration banning military camps in the vicinity of schools, such as in Bantugo, Poblacion, Lacub.
Bringas also warned LGU officials who are persistently imposing the operations of Golden Lake Mineral Resources. Bringas condemned the deceit of these officials claiming that exploration is not mining and further promising projects to be given by the mining company, when these projects should have been delivered by the National and local governments, if only bureaucrat capitalism is not so entrenched.
“The CPP-NPA-CPDF consistently stands in opposition to destructive projects such as LSM (large-scale mining), dams ken illegal logging, who benefit on a few. Based on the collective experiences of corporate mining communities, it is only the companies who really benefits and get rich, while the people continue to suffer, especially after the destruction of land, water and other resources. No amount of money and so-called projects, roads and alleged employment can replace the destruction of communities,” Explained the spokesperson.
Ending his message, Bringgas emphatically warned Golden Lake/Magdaleno Pena Mining Company, “Just try to bring your equipments, and surely you will feel the people’s protests and the punitive actions by the NPA.”
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Post by dodger on Dec 17, 2013 11:13:54 GMT
Join celebrations of the CPP’s 45th year 
December 17, 2013 Communist Party of the Philippines
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) enjoins the Filipino people and all their revolutionary forces to join the celebrations of the 45th anniversary of the re-establishment of the CPP on December 26. Let us celebrate the people’s victories accumulated through 45 years of revolutionary struggle and renew our determination to achieve complete victory in the foreseable future.
There will be several hundred people’s assemblies to be held inside the guerrilla zones across the country. Local branches and sections of the CPP, Barrio Revolutionary Committees and local revolutionary mass organizations of peasants, women, youth, cultural workers, children and others, local commands and units of the New People’s Army and the people’s militia are busy preparing accomodations to host several tens of thousands of people expected to join the assemblies on December 26.
Most of the participants are expected to travel by foot to the venue of the people’s assemblies. Travel arrangements are also being made for the revolutionary forces and guests coming in from the cities or other towns.
The celebrations are set to be modest as these are to be held amidst widespread poverty and socio-economic sufferings brought about by the ruling reactionary regime’s neo-liberal policies. As the previous regimes, the current ruling Aquino regime impose policies that cater to the interests of foreign big capitalists and their local big business and big landlord partners to the detriment of the Filipino people suffering from mass unemployment, low wages and spiralling prices.
The mass activites set to mark the CPP’s 45th anniversary should serve as occasion to collect funds and other materials to be contributed to the rehabilitation efforts in the areas devastated by the recent supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Mass activities will also be held in Eastern Visayas, Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol islands where, through the leadership of the CPP and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the people are collectively rising up from the devastation. This is in stark contrast to the failure of the ruling Aquino regime to act swiftly and sufficiently to address both the emergency relief and long-term rehabilitation needs of the people in the areas razed to the ground.
The assemblies shall, however, be appropriately joyous to celebrate the great victories of the people’ war and the people democratic revolution. The assemblies will provide the venue to celebrate the victories in advancing the revolutionary armed struggle, in carrying forward the revolutionary program for land reform and building the people’s democratic government.
The people’s assemblies shall also serve as a venue for reaffirming the people’s revolutionary determination to carry forward the struggle to end the oppressive and exploitative semi-colonial and semifeudal system through the people’s democratic revolution.
The CPP enjoins urban-based community youth and students organizations, workers, urban poor, women, government employees, migrant workers, jeepney drivers, vendors, rank-and-file employees and professionals to join the celebrations to be held on December 26 inside the guerrilla zones. They can coordinate with branches of the CPP in their localities.
The CPP also enjoins other working class, proletarian and communist parties, anti-imperialist organizations and movements, as well as foreign governments to join and observe the celebrations in the Philippines, specifically inside the territories under the authority of the People’s Democratic Government.
Journalists, reporters and other members of the press who wish to join and witness the celebrations can get in touch with the local branches of the CPP or local commands of the NPA.
The CPP calls on the Aquino regime to order the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stand down on December 26 and the days leading to it, in order to allow the scores of thousands of people to peacefully travel to and join the celebrations. The leadership of the CPP is set to declare a ceasefire in order to pave the way for the national celebrations of the CPP’s 45th anniversary as well as to give way to the Filipino people’s traditional observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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Post by dodger on Dec 18, 2013 12:04:00 GMT
CPP laughs off AFP claim Yolanda disorganized NPA in the Visayas
Wednesday, 18 December 2013 10:23  CPP Information Bureau The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today laughed off claims by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Central Command that supertyphoon Yolanda has “disrupted the organization” of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the Eastern Visayas and other devastated areas. The AFP made this claim yesterday upon the observation that the NPA has not launched offensive operations since 8 November.
“According to reports immediately following the supertyphoon, all units of the NPA in the Eastern Visayas, Panay Island, Central Visayas and Negros Island remain intact,” said the CPP. “In fact, communications between the CPP central leadership and all regional commands in the devastated areas were re-established immediately, and instructions and commands flowed smoothly down to the basic units of the NPA and branches of the CPP.”
“Immediately after typhoon Yolanda, NPA units, people’s militias, local Party branches, revolutionary mass organizations and barrio revolutionary committees were mobilized to organize relief efforts, and set up production teams to help the people collectively rise up from the grave socio-economic disaster,” said the CPP.
“The revolutionary forces in the localities also coordinated with aid agencies and media organizations to facilitate the entry and distribution of relief goods to certain areas.”
The activities of the NPA in Samar province were covered in an article published in the 7 December issue of Ang Bayan.
Addressing typhoon Yolanda’s devastation in Samar
Unite with the people in facing the devastation of Typhoon Yolanda, carry out the temporary and unilateral ceasefire for two months
Tumulong sa pagbigay ayuda at sa muling pagtayo ng mga sinalanta ng Yolanda, isuspendi ang mga taktikal na opensiba ng BHB habang iginigiit sa rehimeng Aquino ang tungkulin nitong tulungan ang mga nasalanta
“The observation by the AFP official that there have been no offensive NPA operations since 8 November just goes to show that the respective commands of the NPA in the areas have complied with, and continue to observe strictly, the ceasefire declaration issued by the CPP Central Committee which remains effective until 24 December,” pointed out the CPP.
“The NPA commands in the Visayas are also covered by the national ceasefire declaration issued today by the CPP Central Committee to mark the 45th anniversary of the CPP and in observance of holiday traditions,” said the CPP.
The CPP pointed out that by the end of the effectivity of the ceasefire on 2359 hours of 26 December, the NPA in the Visayas would have observed a 49-day ceasefire. NPA forces in Samar and Leyte, furthermore, are covered by an order issued by the Eastern Visayas Regional Committee of the CPP that extends the ceasefire to mid-January, in view of the extent of the devastation and the scale of effort that must be exerted by the masses and their army to rise up from the ravages of the storm.
“In contrast, the Aquino regime and the AFP have refused to issue a ceasefire declaration in the devastated areas, and have instead ordered the 8th and 3rd Infantry Divisions to continue their relentless offensive military operations.”
The CPP rejected the calls to “join the AFP in the rehabilitation of the storm areas,” saying that the AFP’s relentless operations clearly aim to prevent the NPA and the revolutionary forces in the area from engaging in rehabilitation efforts.
“If the AFP were at all serious in its calls, it would have ordered its forces to stand down and cease its offensives against the NPA and the revolutionary areas,” said the CPP. “Instead, the AFP has intensified its offensives and issued such bellicose statements right after the devastation, declaring that the AFP will not cease to pursue the ‘enemies of the state’.”
“The Aquino regime and the AFP leadership are clearly afraid that the successful relief and rehabilitation efforts being carried out by the revolutionary forces will put to shame the ruling reactionary Aquino regime which has largely failed in addressing the urgent and long-term needs of the disaster victims,” said the CPP.
“Since the devastation by Yolanda, the Aquino regime has been engaged in endless PR gimmicks to cover up its criminal negligence, failure to prepare for the storm, corruption in the collection and distribution of international aid, and overall failure to make substantial progress on the ground and significant positive impact on the lives of the disaster victims.”
“More than anything else, the Aquino regime’s so-called rehabilitation efforts are aimed primarily to benefit the big capitalist compradors, particularly the gigantic business empire of Lucio Tan, one of the biggest benefactors of the Aquino regime.”
“The Aquino regime is further condemnable for ordering yesterday the suspension of the wage order increase in Western Visayas, which would effectively pull back the workers’ daily minimum wages by P10 and worsen their already dismal socio-economic condition,” said the CPP. “This goes to show what class the Aquino regime is really serving.”
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Post by dodger on Dec 19, 2013 22:26:10 GMT
PKM-NDF hail CPP’s 45 years, calls on urban-based sectors
to join people’s assemblies in guerrilla zones
December 19, 2013 Andres Agtalon
Spokesperson
Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid
Revolutionary farmers under the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid – National Democratic Front (PKM-NDF) today held a lightning rally in Quezon City to salute the 45 years of the Communist Party of the Philippines. The PKM-NDF also called on farmers and urban-based democratic sectors to join people’s assemblies in guerrilla zones on December 26.
“If not for the correct leadership of the CPP, the revolutionary peasant movement will never expand, increase, and strengthen in a nationwide scale,” says PKM-NDF spokesperson Andres Agtalon.
Agtalon said “the Party’ exemplary application of the revolutionary theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism correctly identified the basic character and problems of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal Philippine society.”
“It is also the Party who said that the people’s democratic revolution, in which the main content is agrarian revolution, is the solution to the centuries-old landlessness suffered by the Filipino peasantry,” Agtalon added.
The PKM-NDF noted the Filipino peasantry’s practical revolutionary struggle as a living proof of the CPP’s leadership.
“The revolutionary peasantry’s continuing and increasing participation in the people’s war and membership to the New People’s Army, and advancement of agrarian revolution in the countryside clearly demonstrate the correctness of the Party’s analysis and political line,” Agtalon said.
The PKM-NDF called on farmers, workers, youth and students, professionals, urban poor, women, and other democratic sectors to join people’s assemblies in celebration of the CPP’s 45 years of revolutionary struggle to be held in guerrilla zones across the country.
“The mass activities to mark the CPP’s 45 years on December 26 will celebrate the accumulated victories of the Party, and renew the Filipino peasantry and the people’s resolve to achieve complete victory of the people’s democratic revolution in the near future,” Agtalon said. |
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Post by dodger on Dec 20, 2013 8:27:09 GMT
Around 500 members of revolutionary groups staged a lightning rally from Carriedo St. to Recto Ave. in Manila on December 19 to mark the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). The CPP was established on December 26, 1968, and leads one the longest-running communist insurgencies in the world. The revolutionaries hailed the “advance” of the Philippine revolution, the establishment of a “democratic people’s government” in the countryside, and said that the seizure of political power by revolutionary forces, led by workers and peasants (symbolized by the hammer and sickle) was the only way to solve poverty - See more at: pinoyweekly.org/new/2013/12/cpp-declares-unilateral-ceasefire-ndfp-allied-organizations-hold-marches/nnn |
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Post by dodger on Dec 20, 2013 14:40:48 GMT
CPP condemns AFP attacks against NPA units
doing rehabilitation work in Samar. December 20, 2013 Communist Party of the Philippines
 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemned the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for carrying out relentless attacks against units of the New People’s Army (NPA) carrying out rehabilitation work in the areas devastated by the recent supertyphoon Yolanda, as an armed encounter was reported to have erupted in Barangay Sto. Niño, Motiong, Samar last Tuesday between a local NPA unit and troops of the 87th IB.
At the same time, the CPP castigated the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for rejecting the 6-day ceasefire declaration issued the other day by the CPP and making the ludicrous demand for the NPA to declare an indefinite ceasefire even as the Aquino regime adamantly refuses to resume formal peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
“The CPP strongly condemns the AFP for relentlessly carrying out offensive operations in Samar, Leyte, Negros and other areas devastated by typhoon Yolanda, despite the fact that the CPP had earlier declared a unilateral ceasefire in order to mobilize the entire forces of the NPA and the masses for rehabilitation work,” said the CPP.
The report issued by the 8th ID clearly indicate that the AFP units were conducting offensive operations against the NPA. According to the report, the troops of the 87th IB, which were operating in the next town of San Jorge, mobilized its forces to Motiong to pursue the local NPA unit.
“Since November 8, all NPA units in Motiong and in the rest of Samar and all areas ravaged by the recent supertyphoon Yolanda have been busy carrying out rehabilitation work by assisting the masses in their effort to resume agricultural production and revitalize the environment through various forms of cooperation and collective work,” pointed out the CPP.
“Clearly, the AFP does not want the NPA and the people to succeed in rehabilitation work,” said the CPP. “Firstly, Aquino and the AFP refused to reciprocate the ceasefire declaration issued by the CPP leadership to cover the NPA commands in the Visayas islands ravaged by supertyphoon Yolanda. Secondly, it has ordered all units of the 8th and 3rd ID to carry out offensives against the NPA and suppression activities against the people.”
“The continuing offensives of the AFP in the Yolanda-devastated areas is a repeat of the heightened suppression campaign which it has been carrying out in the areas devastated by the December 4, 2012 supertyphoon Pablo in Compostela Valley,” pointed out the CPP. “In most of the areas devastated by Pablo, people are suffering not only from the complete absence of assistance from the Aquino regime, but from heightened human rights abuses by the fascist troops of the AFP.”
“If the Aquino regime and its armed forces really want a long-term or indefinite ceasefire, then it should push for the resumption of formal peace negotiations with the NDFP on the basis of the foundations built through more than 25 years of negotiations,” said the CPP. “Aquino should respect all previous agreements, seriously discuss the roots of the armed conflict and stop using peace negotiations solely to dupe the revolutionary into silencing their weapons and allowing their hands to be tied behind their backs.”
“The CPP declared two three-day ceasefires with the clear aim of expressing solidarity with the people’s traditional holiday observance and in order to allow the NPA to concentrate on providing security to the thousands of people expected to join the mass celebrations of the CPP’s 45th anniversary on December 26 in the guerrilla zones,” added the CPP.
“Indeed, the Filipino people want long-lasting peace,” said the CPP. “But they also know that this is impossible under a system that exploits and oppresses the workers, peasants and the downtrodden and that such can only be achieved by waging mass struggles and armed resistance.”
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Post by dodger on Dec 22, 2013 10:39:53 GMT
AFP chief’s moronic “ceasefire forever” means “eternal hell of military abuses”—CPP
December 22, 2013 Communist Party of the Philippines
 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today chided Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista for criticizing the two 3-day ceasefire declarations issued by the CPP Central Committee as being “too short” and proposing that the New People’s Army (NPA) declare a ceasefire “that would last forever.”
“To declare a ceasefire ‘to last forever’ will only bring forth an eternal hell of military abuses, landgrabbing and environmental destruction,” declared the CPP.
“General Bautista’s proposals are moronic, to say the least,” said the CPP. “Such thoughtless remarks reflect the AFP’s inability to understand the deep-seated reasons behind the Filipino people’s armed resistance and view the civil war only from the myopic perspective of a one track-minded fascist.”
Last Wednesday, the CPP Central Committee issued a ceasefire declaration that would take effect on 12:00 am of December 24 to 11:59 pm of December 26; and 12:00 am of December 31 to 11:59 pm of January 2. The CPP declaration is in keeping with the Filipino people’s traditional observance of the holidays and to pave the way for the people and their revolutionary forces to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the CPP on December 26.
“Without the NPA, the peasant masses, the fisherfolk and the minority indigenous peoples have nothing to defend their farms and ancestral land with against the relentless encroachments of foreign mining companies and large logging operations and the landgrabbing by big landlords and foreign-owned or financed plantations, which are invariably accompanied by units of the AFP to cow the people into accepting such subjugation,” said the CPP.
“To muzzle the guns of the NPA is to surrender the schools, the clinics, the farms and the peace which the peasant masses have established through their new democratic government that has been built on the people’s collective strength,” added the CPP. “Where the Aquino regime and the reactionary state and its armed forces are weak and practically non-existent, organs of the people’s democratic government are being established to serve the interests of the poor peasants, indigenous peoples and fisherfolk.”
“Under the Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression, the AFP has been carrying out grave abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law, victimizing mainly civilians, especially children, women and the elderly,” said the CPP.
It cited the killing of 8-year old Roque Antivo, who, together with his brother and uncle, were fired upon by trigger-happy soldiers of the 71st IB in Barangay Antipan, Mabini, Compostela Valley on April 3. The officials of the 71st IB, as well as key officials of the 10th ID, the AFP and the Aquino regime have been indicted by the People’s Democratic Government of Compostela Valley and have been recommended for trial.
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Post by dodger on Dec 24, 2013 18:32:19 GMT
Flag-raising ceremonies to kick off simple celebrations
of CPP 45th anniversary on December 26
December 24, 2013 Communist Party of the Philippines
 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) announced today that preparations for the people’s assemblies to mark its 45th anniversary on December 26 are all set and will kick off in the morning with the raising of the hammer and sickle flag of the CPP simultaneous with the singing of the Internationale, the anthem of the international communist movement.
The flag of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), which represents the People’s Democratic Government in the Philippines in the interim, will also be flown high in assembly areas. The banners of the New People’s Army (NPA) and all other revolutionary mass organizations will also fly prominently in the assemblies.
The assemblies will be hosted by the barrio, inter-barrio and municipal revolutionary committees, the local revolutionary mass organizations and the CPP branches and sections in the localities. These will mostly be held in areas which are under the jurisdiction and authority of the organs of the people’s democratic government.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to join scores of assemblies to be held in various parts of the country. Most of the people will arrive at the assembly points on foot, coming in from nearby barrios and towns.
The CPP also anticipates several thousand visitors from the cities, including students, workers, urban poor, doctors and professionals, government employees and jeepney drivers. It has also invited foreign friends and governments to join and observe the assemblies.
“Units of the NPA will join the assemblies and secure the venues in coordination with local units of the people’s militia,” said the CPP.
“The assemblies will serve as a propitious occasion for the Filipino people to celebrate the concrete victories which they have achieved through 45 years of revolutionary struggle”, said the CPP. “They will be celebrating advances in the political, economic, cultural and military fields, as well as in the provision of educational and medical services to the people.”
The assemblies will also serve as an opportunity to generate and collect funds and other material support for rehabilitation efforts in the Yolanda areas. “Among those to be collected and distributed are seeds for vegetables and fruit trees, as well as tree seedlings for reforestation.”
The CPP reiterated its call on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to pull-out its troops from the guerrilla base areas and cease its offensive operations in order to allow the people free movement to travel to and participate in the people’s assemblies for the 45th anniversary of the CPP.
Field reports indicate that the AFP continues to carry-out operations in the guerrilla zones in Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, other parts of Mindanao, as well as in the ‘Yolanda’-devastated areas of Samar, Leyte, Negros, and in Sorsogon, Benguet and other towns of Luzon. “Despite the supposed ceasefire declared by Malacañang, AFP operations continue to be carried out unabated committing widespread abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law.”
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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 14:31:24 GMT
18 soldiers killed in Panay
Eighteen soldiers were killed and at least seven were wounded when the New People’s Army (NPA) successfully thwarted one after another the military operations of the Philippine Army 3rd ID in Panay in October.
The NPA ambushed on October 9 a big force under the 61st IB that was conducting pursuit operations against Red fighters that had mounted an attack on the military two days before. Two soldiers were killed in the ambush at Sitio Malangsa, Barangay Abangay, Tapaz, Capiz at around 9 a.m.
Meanwhile, in southern Panay, three elements of the 82nd IB were killed and two others were wounded in an encounter with an NPA unit under the Napoleon Tumagtang Command in Sitio Tabiac, Barangay Dalije, Miag-ao, Iloilo morning of October 29. When the first shots rang out, the NPA immediately seized the initiative in the fighting and inflicted casualties on the enemy. The military merely covered the dead soldiers’ bodies with tarp and only loaded them aboard a helicopter the day after.
The enemy persisted in its pursuit operations against the Red fighters and clashed anew with the NPA on October 31. Seven troopers from Charlie Company were killed. The 3rd ID led by its new chief Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad put a lid on these successive defeats in the hands of the NPA. After a few days, a Huey helicopter and two MG-520 helicopter gunships bombed the mountainous areas along the Iloilo-Antique border.
Prior to this series of gunbattles, six soldiers of the 61st IB were killed and at least three were wounded in an ambush on the banks of the Pan-ay River in Barangay Nayawan, Tapaz on October 7.
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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 15:06:35 GMT
Advanced course on combat medicine launched
Leading medical officers of the New People’s Army in Mindanao took the Advanced Health Training last October. The training was held in the mountainous areas of the Bukidnon-Davao Subregional Command. It was attended by 32 cadres from five regions as well as officers and doctors of the NPA National Operations Command N-5 and the CPP National Health Bureau.
The Advanced Health Training’s main content was “advanced trauma management” or the treatment of severe wounds sustained during combat. The course includes medical procedures ranging from “basic life support” to operating on patients with gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, bone fractures and other serious medical conditions. A review of anatomy and other basic medical processes became an integral part of the course practicum.
The course on managing trauma due to gunshot wounds included cricothyrotomy, an operation conducted on persons with gunshot wounds to the chest whose lungs fill with blood. The course also includes laparotomy, or making an incision through the abdominal wall to stop internal bleeding and as first aid for other operations on the abdomen, intestines and adjacent internal organs. The course likewise includes orthopedic operations, amputations, skin traction, bone pinning, bone cementing and/or metal implantation.
In partnership with a squad of Red fighters, the participants played a skit with a raid as scenario and with several wounded. They studied the correct maneuvers during a combat situation, such as crawling into the “killing zone” to retrieve the “wounded” and bringing them to the first and second medical stations.
At the first station, medics apply first aid to the “patients.” At the second station, the patients are carefully cleaned and bandaged to stop any bleeding. The wounded are given intravenous infusions and loaded on stretchers for immediate transfer to the third station, which serves as the field hospital where the necessary pieces of equipment are positioned and operations are conducted.
The training was sponsored by the NPA Regional Command and the Party Subregional Committee. With the help of local forces, the facilities necessary to conduct the training effectively were built—a schoolbuilding for lectures, a kitchen, latrines and huts, among others. Security at the camp was ensured by Red fighters in partnership with the people’s militia in the villages adjacent to the area.
The entire course pushed through without a hitch. There was a fruitful exchange of experiences among the participants who included highly experienced revolutionary medics. It was not difficult for them to grasp the lessons and procedures. Another major factor in the training’s success was the region’s assiduous preparations, the widespread support from the people’s army and the masses and the untiring efforts of the participants and their supporters.
After the training, the medical cadres launched the Mindanao Medical Conference where they reaffirmed the need to conduct regular medical conferences as a means of raising the level of their knowledge and skills in modern medical advances and of cooperation on practical issues and problems.
They resolved to expand the number of medical personnel by identifying trainable Red fighters, launchng trainings and sharing experiences. Said the medical officers, the medics’ abilities must keep apace as people’s war gains strength, especially now that the entire revolutionary movement looks forward to completing the requisites for achieving the strategic stalemate.
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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 15:31:17 GMT
RMS: Doctors in the people’s army
Ka Lalee has been a medic for more than three decades. She is a member of the Regional Medical Staff (RMS) of the Regional Operations Command (ROC) of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao. In October, she finished taking the Advanced Health Training where her skills as a fighter-doctor of the people were further honed.
“Currently, the RMS has 16 medics in Southern Mindanao,” said Ka Lalee. The RMS is a military formation that addresses the needs of vertical NPA units in the region. The RMS plans to expand towards being a fullfledged platoon by 2014.
“The medics within the RMS are of various levels,” explained Ka Lalee. “There are cadres, practitioners and trainees.” Medical cadres have finished taking the advanced courses, are able to perform combat surgery, manage big teams of medics and give trainings.
Practitioners have finished taking the Intermediate Health Training and are able to perform minor operations. They are medics who can perform tooth extractions, circumcisions and minor surgery such as cyst removal. The cadres and practitioners have the ability to make diagnoses and write prescriptions. The trainees are at the most basic level, and have just begun their training both in the formal courses and in practical tasks. They implement basic regulations on sanitation and nutrition and treat common ailments.
“Although the RMS’ main task is to see to the health of the people’s army, it likewise ensures the health of the masses by forming Barrio Medical Groups (BMG) and conducting trainings in the villages,” said Ka Lalee. With the BMG medics, the RMS conducts people’s clinics in the barrios within its area of operations as part of its task of providing services to the guerrilla bases being established by the NPA.
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