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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 19:42:12 GMT
AFP "Suspension of Offensive
Military Operations" is a lie!
Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:28 Bicol_region
By NDFP Bicol Information Office
 The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Bicol denounces the treachery of the PhilippineArmy’s 9th Infantry Division as it violates its self-declared ceasefire which took effect last 21 December 2013, with offensive military operations still terrorizing the countrysides of Bicol.
At least three provincial commands of the New People’s Army-Bicol reported that as of 24 December 2013, 9th Infantry Division soldiers continue to be deployed in many areas of the People’s Democratic Government in the region.
The Eduardo Olbara Command of the NPA-Camarines Sur conveyed that the 42nd Infantry Battalion’s purported Peace and Development Teams maintain their active posts at barangays (village) Antolon, Patag, and Poloan, in Caramoan town. Albay province’s NPA Santos Binamera Command reported that 2nd Infantry Battalion PDTs likewise keep their stations in barangays Villapaz and Sinagaran, both in Jovellar town; Mamlad in Pio Duran; and Lumacao in Guinobatan.
Meanwhile, from 22-23 December in the province of Sorsogon, combat operations by the 31st Infantry Battalion were also monitored in barangays Marinas and Cabiguhan in Gubat town, as well as in barangays Manhumlad and Balocawe in Matnog.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ breach of its own ceasefire declaration reveals its hypocrisy, characteristic of Oplan Bayanihan’s psywar policy. While AFP spokespersons smirk through their propaganda and fall flat at representing the military as champions of peace, the rest of its minions go wild in the countryside, committing grave human rights and international humanitarian law offenses.
AFP’s paramount liar Lt Col Ramon Zagala desperately fails in the defense of military deployment in guerrilla territories within the scope of the AFP’s own ceasefire declaration. His excuse that troop dispositions in NPA territories are “protection from the possible presence of threats” aims to obscure the essentially non-existent Suspension of Offensive Military Operations (SOMO) by the AFP.
Zagala likewise upholds its deception of the people about the nature of their so-called Peace and Development Teams that continue to prowl the countrysides and occupy public structures in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. These military formations falsely take on a benevolent name, because the opposite is what PDTs bring about in the countrysides. Entrenched in each PDT are combat, psywar, and intelligence operations, and are therefore poised at launching attacks and poisoning the minds of the people.
The NDFP-Bicol echoes the demand of the Communist Party of the Philippines for the AFP to stand down and pull out their troops from territories of the People’s Democratic Government. However, if the AFP persists in counter-revolution and continues to encroach into guerrilla territories, and puts the people and their revolutionary army in clear and forthcoming danger, the revolutionary forces shall likewise abide by the CPP’s directive to act in self-defense so as to deter enemy attacks against the people.
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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 19:59:33 GMT
Sa loob ng Hukbo (Inside the People's Army)
Sine Proletaryo
December 25, 2013
A glimpse of the tasks and activities of Red fighters belonging to the
Apolonio Mendoza Command-NPA Quezon (Southern Tagalog).
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Post by dodger on Dec 25, 2013 22:04:16 GMT
VICTORIOUS NPA OFFENSIVES
10th ID suffers 34 casualtiesSoldiers under the 10th ID of the Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) suffered 20 dead and 14 wounded after a series of tactical offensives launched by New People’s Army (NPA) units under the Comval-Davao Gulf Subregional Command from November 18 to December 6.
To cover up their shame, no less than Eastmincom chief Lt. Gen. Ricardo Rainier Cruz concocted a story about how four Red fighters were allegedly killed in encounters in Maco town, Compostela Valley.
In fact, the enemy had launched brutal military operations that included strafings and bombings. They also killed a civilian and detained three others and disrupted the livelihoods of hundreds of residents in the towns of Maco and Maragusan.
On November 21, the 71st IB clashed with the 6th Pulang Bagani Company (Front 27 Operations Command) in North Davao, New Leyte, Maco town. As a result, three soldiers were killed and three others were wounded.
The military retaliated in desperation, victimizing unarmed and innocent civilians. At around 10:30 a.m., the military bombarded Sitios North Davao and Bunlang in New Leyte using 105 mm howitzers. By 4 p.m. that day, two MG-520 helicopters rained bombs on North Davao and the cluster of barangays in Masara Lines, Maco.
The bombings were conducted by the AFP on November 18, 21 and 23 and December 4 and 6.
The NPA used a command-detonated detonated explosive on the soldiers while they were resting at their camp in Barangay Parasanun at around 11 p.m., killing five soldiers and wounding six others.
On November 23, at around 8 a.m., Red fighters harassed the 71st IB Alpha Company camp, wounding three soldiers. Two hours after, two MG-520 helicopters bombed farms in Barangays Elizalde, Teresa and New Barili, all in Maco.
On November 25, the NPA detonated a bomb on a unit under the 66th IB in Sitio Camuso, Barangay Parasanun, killing four soldiers.
The NPA launched harassment operations on November 28 against the 71st IB in Sitio Biokadan, Barangay Teresa, killing a soldier.
Afterwards, the military forcibly evacuated the area’s residents.
On December 4, at around 8 a.m., the 6th Pulang Bagani Company ambushed the 71st IB in Sitio Lim-aw, Barangay Teresa, killing seven troopers and wounding five others.
At past 9 a.m., the military rained artillery on Sitios Lim-aw and Gakub using 105 mm howitzers, disrupting the peasants’ economic activities.
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Same 6th Bagani Company who conducted a raid seizing the above weapons in May of this year.
Put to good use.
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 1:25:02 GMT
Ka Oris: the Party is youthful at 45
Posted by: DAVAO TODAY Posted date: December 27, 2013 By John Rizle L. Saligumba Davao Today  SAN LUIS, Agusan Del Sur — Streamers bearing greetings for the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines were hung in several places, one of which was only few meters away from the Philippine Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion detachment. Not too far away, several “skylab” motorcycles busily negotiated muddy roads as some people from surrounding villages walked on foot.
Amidst the sweltering heat of the sun, Ka Oris, the spokesperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines – Mindanao greeted the thousands who came to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The rebel leader’s message, which he made after a series of cultural presentations by face-painted young presenters from the urban centers, is that “the party is youthful” even as it nears its golden years.
“Look at our performers from the cities, our army (NPA), our leaders, the revolution is indeed young,” he said.
Ka Oris, standing tall in an improvised stage with his iconic white beard and one-star “Mao” cap, then read the National Democratic Front – Mindanao (NDF) statement on the CPP’s 45th anniversary.
The rebel leader said that “despite the AFP’s (Armed Forces of the Philippines) military and psy-war operations,” the “revolutionary bases” of the NPA “have rapidly expanded and gained strength in more than 2000 barrios in more than 200 municipalities and 19 provinces in Mindanao.”
Oris said the NPA number to about 10 battalions which are “spread out in 46 guerilla zones in five regions in Mindanao.”
With the “increasing” number, Oris said that tactical offensives (TOs) of the NPA have “significantly intensified.”
“From only 250 TOs in 2010, this has increased to 350 in 2011, to 400 in 2012 and to more than 400 in the entire year of 2013,” he said.
He said further that “from 2011 until 2013, casualties sustained by enemy forces have risen to at least a battalion per year, while, on the part of the NPA, the number of casualties did not go beyond a platoon each year of the same period.”
With regards to procurement of arms, Ka Oris said that they have in fact bought from AFP personnel.
“Some we buy from the savings of retired officials, some from incumbent. But Aquino need not worry as the quantity is still small,” he jested.
With regards to the AFP’s “capture” of a supposed NPA “mine factory” in Laak, Compostela Valley few weeks ago, Oris said that they have “many” and can always create “more” factories.
Oris also said that they have launched “punitive actions” against “large-scale mining and plantations owned by the big bourgeois comprador and imperialists who continue to exploit millions of peasants and agri-workers, grab their lands, and plunder and ravage the environment.”
In a press conference that ensued later, a member of the media asked if there was truth that in one of their operations, the NPA slaughtered pigs of Mega Farms in Bukidnon.
Ka Oris explained that the slaughter of pigs was justified, saying “that was just one way to disable their operation. The company polluted the water and the surrounding and destroyed the livelihood of farmers. There is no other way to reprimand them but to kill those pigs,” he said.
Oris said the company was also oppressing their workers who were paid at a P120 per day, smaller than what workers in other NPA-influenced areas who receive at P250.
He also said adding that Mega Farm and other companies have already expressed willingness to talk with them.
With regards to other companies, the NDF, however, has set some “pre-conditions.”
“In plantations for example, the pre-condition is that they cease their expansion before they negotiate with us,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ka Oris scored the Aquino government saying that while “the people continue to suffer from destitution as a result of the country’s economic crisis,” the “US-Aquino III regime holds no interest in and has lost its capability to alleviate the misery of the millions of victims of catastrophes, such as those hit by typhoons Sendong, Pablo, Yolanda and the quake in the Visayas.”
Oris said that “in truth it is only the NPA that has reached the great majority of Pablo victims as they are situated in the countrysides.”
Like in Pablo areas, Oris said that CPP units in Yolanda-hit areas should “re-organize in order to rebuild the people’s livelihood.”
He said that the people cannot rely on the Aquino government as “it is preoccupied with squandering away people’s funds, such as in the detested cases of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and other vile forms of corruption,” he said. He also added in the interview later that “if PNoy is removed, there will be no more DAP, no more PDAF.”
Moreover, he scored Aquino’s “failure to deliver justice to the victims of the Maguindanao massacre as well as to the victims of the mounting cases of extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate bombing during the Zamboanga City siege and other forms of human rights abuses.”
Ka Oris said that the “almost daily gunfight” in Moro areas prove that the Moro people “doubts the government’s sincerity” with its ongoing talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
With regards to human rights, Oris said that it is “good” that the military recognize CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) which he said “promotes the protection of the people’s basic rights.”
However, he stressed the protection of the people’s basic rights is the principal responsibility of the “incumbent political power” and “secondary governments like the NPA.”
Ka Oris, in his statement also called on CPP members to advance the armed revolution until the strategic stalemate phase is achieved in the next few years.
He said that the stalemate phase is when there is already “parity” of the AFP and NPA forces. He explains that with the NPA, this means the support of “people’s militias.”
“With the support of about 10-30 million Filipinos, the enemy can now be overwhelmed by this combination,” he said.
Oris said that the CPP must “consolidate and expand the membership” in order to “increase its ability to lead in raising the level of the people’s war towards the strategic stalemate phase until complete victory.”(John Rizle Saligumba/davaotoday.com) |
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 1:38:41 GMT
Guess who's 45?
BY KARLOS MANLUPIG POSTED ON 12/26/2013 8:02 PM | UPDATED 12/26/2013 8:35 PM IN FIGHTING FORM. George Madlos says the rebels are as strong as ever.
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Philippines – On Thursday, December 26, hundreds of supporters travelled through rocky and muddy roads here to join New People's Army guerrillas in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Similar gatherings were also held in several areas in Mindanao. But this one was different. The spokesman of the National Democratic Front-Mindanao Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos presided over the celebration.
"It is only right to celebrate the many victories of our revolutionary struggle of the past 45 years,” Madlos said. “Despite the AFP’s military and psy-war operations...the revolutionary bases have rapidly expanded and gained strength in more than 2000 barrios in more than 200 municipalities and 19 provinces in Mindanao. Hundreds of thousands of organized masses actively support the armed revolution,” he added.
Madlos said the crime rate is zero in these areas and the rebels' expansion is proof that government has failed to defeat Asia's longest-running insurgency.
45 YEARS. Members of the Communist Party of the Philippines celebrate their 45th anniversary somewhere in Agusan del Sur. Photo by Karlos Manlupig
The rebels have more than 46 guerilla fronts or 10 battalions in 5 regions in Mindanao, Madlos said.
“In the last 5 years, tactical offensives of the NPA have significantly intensified,” he added. From 250 tactical offensives in 2010, 350 in 2011 and 400 in 2012, Madlos said there are more than 400 offensives this year.
Madlos also claimed that at least a battalion of government troops suffers casualties per year since 2011. “While on the part of the NPA, the number of casualties did not go beyond a platoon each year of the same period,” he said.
Madlos boasted there are at least 10,000 members of the CPP in Mindanao alone.
It's an empty boast as far as the military is concerned. The guerrillas' numbers are dwindling, according to the military.
The CPP suffered its worst split in the 1990s, causing the creation of various factions within the communist movement. The government then declared that the communist decline was irreversible.
The rebels have managed to bounce back, however, reviving old bailiwicks such as those in eastern and northern Mindanao. This year, rebels attacked plantations, torched installations, harassed police detachments and abducted local security personnel.
"They have been fighting for 45 years and yet they have not gained ground against the government,” said 4th Infantry Division spokesman Capt Christian Uy. “The people believe that it is time to end the armed struggle... We believe our people would like to have a peaceful way of life and we believe we can only achieve this through peace talks," Uy added.
However, Madlos said President Benigno Aquino III has never shown interest or sincerity in resuming and completing the talks.
YES TO TECHNOLOGY. CPP supporters during their 45th anniversary celebration.
Photo by Karlos Manlupig
The talks between both sides collapsed early this year. But they both declared a ceasefire for Christmas and New Year. - Rappler.com
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 2:14:40 GMT
Statement on the CPP’s 45th Founding Anniversary
The Party in Mindanao grows ever stronger in leading the people’s revolution towards the strategic stalemate phase in the next few years, and, eventually, towards the socialist revolution
December 26, 2013  Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris)
Spokesperson
NDFP Mindanao Chapter
The Revolutionary movement and the broad masses in Mindanao join the entire nation in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (MLM). Let us give our highest accolade and salute to all the revolutionary martyrs of the Party, Red Fighters and the masses who unselfishly offered themselves for the people and the revolution.
It is only right to celebrate the many victories of our revolutionary struggle of the past 45 years.
Despite the AFP’s military and psy-war operations by way of the RSOT/COPD, the revolutionary bases have rapidly expanded and gained strength in more than 2000 barrios in more than 200 municipalities and 19 provinces in Mindanao. Hundreds of thousands of organized masses actively support the armed revolution,
The utter brutality of both Arroyo’s OBL and Aquino III’s OPB are literally stopped in their tracks against the continued growth and strength of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao, especially in the past five years. Currently, NPA platoons and companies, spread in 46 guerrilla fronts in five regions in Mindanao, number to about 10 battalions and are supported by numerous squads and platoons of the People’s Militia, which also run collectively into several battalions. In the last five years, tactical offensives (TOs) of the NPA have significantly intensified. From only 250 TOs in 2010, this has increased to 350 in 2011, to 400 in 2012 and to more than 400 in the entire year of 2013. Major victorious TOs this year include the highly successful punitive action leveled against the US-Del Monte Phils Plantation; the raid against the CAFGU-Army detachment in Brgy. Lantad, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental; the ambush against an army unit in Brgy, Bituan, Tulunan, North Cotabato; the confiscation of arms from Dasia Security Agency in Tagum City as well as from PNP headquarters in Kibawe, Bukidnon and in Don Victoriano, Misamis Occidental.
We have launched punitive actions against large-scale mining and plantations owned by the big bourgeois comprador and imperialists who continue to exploit millions of peasants and agri-workers, grab their lands, and plunder and ravage the environment. From 2011 until 2013, casualties sustained by enemy forces have risen to at least a battalion per year, while, on the part of the NPA, the number of casualties did not go beyond a platoon each year of the same period.
In the midst of abject poverty suffered by peasants and their continued deprivation of genuine agrarian reform by the Aquino III reactionary government, the revolutionary movement in Mindanao has sustained the implementation of an ever-widening minimum program of the revolutionary agrarian reform in the countryside at the municipal and provincial levels, where hundreds of thousands have benefitted from the significant lowering land rent and rent on farm tools and farm animals; the increase in the wages of agri-workers; the gradual eradication of usury; the increase in prices in farm products as well as the decrease in the prices of certain consumer goods; marked improvements in the level of productivity; the establishment of cooperatives and delivery of basic services, and so much more. We have also initiated mass movements in extending help to the victims of typhoons Sendong, Pablo and Yolanda.
The ever-growing alliance of workers, peasants, students and professionals, religious and other groups who launch legal and open mass mobilizations in urban areas against the different forms of exploitation by big business and the repression of their democratic rights of the various social classes, at the same time opposing the environmental plunder and destruction of the environment by multi-national mining corporations and agri-business plantations. The protest movement against US imperialist intervention in the country has grown larger and wider, aiming these protests against such travesties to sovereignty as the US naval exercises in Zamboanga and General Santos City, and the ever increasing deployment of US troops, deviously disguised, of late, as humanitarian missions to aid the victims of typhoon Yolanda and other calamities.
The Party leading the Philippine Revolution is intrinsically rooted in the five regions of Mindanao through its more than 10,000 Party members within the units of the NPA, the organs of political power, and in the Party branches of the peasants in the countryside, the workers and the youth and the petty bourgeoisie in the urban areas, and tirelessly strive to raise the level of its ideological foundation in Marxism, Leninism and Maoism.
Through these advances in the revolutionary struggle in the island, the reactionary government is constrained to augment their military forces in Mindanao with battalions coming from Luzon and the Visayas, beefing up their offensive and psywar operations in Southern and Northern Mindanao as priority areas, while attempting, but sorely failing, to frustrate the reinvigoration of the revolutionary struggle in both the Western and Far Southern Mindanao regions. The US-Aquino regime has only succeeded in further isolating itself away from the people because of its outright militarism that has resulted to grave human rights violations.
While the people continue to suffer from destitution as a result of the country’s economic crisis, the US-Aquino III regime holds no interest in and has lost its capability to alleviate the misery of the millions of victims of catastrophes, such as those hit by typhoons Sendong, Pablo, Yolanda and the quake in the Visayas, because it is preoccupied with squandering away people’s funds, such as in the detested cases of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and other vile forms of corruption. The regime’s economic policies have only aggravated poverty, increased the prices of goods and services, and despoiled the environment as a result of its subservience to giant mining and plantation. Huge military spending has contributed to the government’s bankruptcy and further isolated itself because of its intense oppression, its utter failure to deliver justice to the victims of the Maguindanao massacre as well as the victims of the mounting cases of extrajudicial killings, its indiscriminate bombing during the Zamboanga City siege and other forms of human rights abuses.
The agreement between the GPH and the MILF, which intends to neutralize the armed resistance of the Moro people, is an outright failure. Instead of emasculating it, it has in fact rekindled the armed struggle of the Moro people who continually aspire for real autonomy.
With the grave crises plaguing the political and economic spheres of the nation, which is aggravated by a system that relies heavily on debt from the crumbling economy of imperialist US, the people cannot hope for any form of mitigation from the severe poverty in the next few years, but we can hope for the further advance of the people’s democratic revolution and the eventual establishment of socialism.
Thus, we call on the people to wage a broader movement for genuine agrarian reform, starting from the minimum program of land reform until we are able to undertake the free distribution of agricultural lands to the peasants. The peasant masses must organize themselves in order to demand the increase wages of agri-workers, lower the rent of land, milling, farm tools, farm animals, the gradual eradication of usury, engage in labor-exchange, build collective farms, establish cooperatives and self-sufficient and war economies.
Swiftly build and strengthen the real government of the people in the countryside in order to implement genuine social reforms and win for the people true political power.
Rapidly widen and strengthen the workers’ movement to increase wage rates and benefits, defend their labor and democratic rights, and prepare themselves for the worsening of the national and world crisis.
Briskly expand and strengthen the youth and students’ movement in order to defend their interests in education and their rights; and to head for the mountains, link with the peasant masses, and join the ranks of NPA Red fighters.
The people must unite against the total plunder and destruction of the environment, against extrajudicial killings, and against US interventionism. Launch a broad movement for the restoration of the environment.
We must advance the armed revolution until the strategic stalemate phase is achieved in the next few years.
We must further consolidate and expand the membership of the Party in order to increase its ability to lead in raising the level of the people’s war towards the strategic stalemate phase until complete victory.
Long live the People’s Democratic Revolution!
Long live the 45th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (MLM)!
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 6:35:15 GMT
Rebel unit claims
victories in Negros
BY GILBERT BAYORAN  The Apolinario Boy Gatmaitan Command of the New People's Army yesterday claimed victories in several tactical offensives they have launched against government forces, and also declared having defeated military campaigns in Negros Island since 2007.
Rebel spokesman Juanito Magbanua II, in a statement he issued, said that despite the obstacles and difficulties faced by the NPA in Negros, they were able to defeat the Oplan Bayanihan, triad operation and the whole nation approach strategy of the Armed Forces, that mobilizes local government units and agencies, non-government organizations, and the church, through its Church-Military-Police Advisory Group.
Contrary to military claims, Magbanua said, not a single guerrilla front has been dismantled in Negros. Instead, he said, they were successful in their expansion and recovery of their lost territories, as they have also established the Komiteng Pang-Organisa sa Baryo and Lubos Asosasyon Masa in several barangays and soon also in the municipal level.
Magbanua also claimed that they have confiscated firearms, that could arm a company-sized unit of the NPA.
The Armando Sumayang Command, one of the NPA guerilla fronts in Negros island, in another statement it issued, also claimed success in southern Negros, citing the successful ambush against 47 th Infantry Battalion soldiers, that led to the recovery of five high-powered firearms.
Andrea Guerrero, spokesperson of the Armando Sumayang Command, said they have also punished the Philex Mining Company for the destruction of environment, meted death penalty to a drug pusher, rapist and a military informant.*GPB
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 13:41:13 GMT
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 14:53:37 GMT
Ka Oris beaming at CPP’s 45 Ka ORIS BEAMING AT CPP’s 45. Ka Oris, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front – Mindanao smiles to reporters during a press conference on the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines last December 26 somewhere in Agusan del Sur.
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CPP 45th year anniversary coverage: Media held in checkpoints
Members of media were stopped by a checkpoint in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur after their coverage of the
Communist Party of the Philippines’ celebration of the 45th founding anniversary led by Ka Oris of the National
Democratic Front (photo courtesy of Kilab Multimedia)
by JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Agusan del Sur — Members of the media were forced to stop at army and police checkpoints on three separate occasions Thursday after covering the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Radio, TV and online reporters from Davao and Butuan numbering to about 20 were first stopped at Talacogon town 4pm and were asked about the details of their coverage which they refused to provide.
The media were part of the convoy of individuals and groups who were invited by Ka Oris, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front Mindanao.
They were able to pass through but were stopped again in an unmarked checkpoint outside the Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion headquarters.
When soldiers were asked about the identity of their commanding officer, they refused and held the media further without due justification.
Shortly after, an unidentified man wearing shorts and a t-shirt came and went about his way and tried to open the media’s vehicle. He later refused to grant an interview.
The last checkpoint was manned by personnel of the Prosperidad Police Station.
Prosperidad Police Chief Nilo Texzon said it was just a “standard operating procedure.”
The CPP usually invites members of the media to cover its annual commemoration. (John Rizle L. Saligubma, davaotoday.com)
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Post by dodger on Dec 27, 2013 17:41:39 GMT
NPA fighters vow more attacks in 2014
By Anjo Bacarisas Saturday, December 28, 2013
CAGAYAN DE ORO -- Maoist rebels vowed Thursday to launch much wider and bigger offensives with more armed fighters next year.
Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, the spokesperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) for Mindanao, said the New People's Army (NPA) will intensify its attacks especially in Southern Philippines.
The NPA is the armed wing of the NDFP and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
AGUSAN. Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines for Mindanao, told reporters who attended the 45th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines somewhere in Agusan provinces that the New People's Army will intensify its offensives against government forces. (Anjo J. Bacarisas)
The Philippines has been tagged for holding the longest running revolutionary movement in the world.
Speaking before reporters during the CPP’s 45th founding anniversary on December 26, Madlos said they will deploy more NPA fighters in their punitive actions against the government forces in 2014.
Madlos said that in 2010, the revolutionary group initiated 250 armed operations, 350 attacks in 2011, and more than 400 offensives in 2012.
“This year, the revolutionary forces launched more than 400 offensives, and next year, we will launch more than 500 tactical offensives,” said Madlos.
If the recent assaults were initiated by platoons and squads of the NPA, Madlos said that next year, there will be battalion formations that will launch military operations all over Mindanao.
In the North Central Mindanao Region (NCMR), Norsen “Ka Norsen” Mangubat said amid the addition of the Marine Battalion Landing Team and Scout Ranger to the military forces of the Philippines’ 4th Infantry Division (4ID), the insurgents intensified their aggressive actions from 83 last year to 100 this year.
Mangubat claimed the CPP-NPA in NCMR this year eliminated 117 members of the government’s military forces, while the Maoists lost only 11 of their comrades.
“In those tactical operations, the group confiscated more than 80 weapons of different caliber,” said Mangubat.
Madlos added: “From 2011 to 2013, casualties sustained by enemy forces increased to at least a battalion per year while the casualties with the NPA per year did not go beyond a platoon on the same period.”
CAGAYAN DE ORO. New People's Army fighters perform a cultural show during the 45th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines held somewhere in Agusan. (Anjo J. Bacarisas)
CPP-NPA strength
In NCMR, Mangubat said the forces of the guerilla group increased by 11 percent while the number of high-powered weapons increased by 10 percent.
“The People’s militia in the region also increased by 28 percent,” said Mangubat.
According to the CPP statement, in the five regions of Mindanao, there are 46 guerilla fronts composed of platoons and companies that constitute 10 battalions.
The battalion formations of CPP-NPA in Mindanao are supported by the People’s militia numbering several battalions.
Amid the military and psychological warfare (psy-war) operations conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the bases of the group increased and strengthened in more than 2,000 villages in more than 200 municipalities and 19 provinces in Mindanao.
In sum, the armed revolution in Mindanao guided by the CPP is supported by hundreds of thousands from various sectors of society, the CPP added.
Punitive actions
Based on the CPP statement, part of their tactical offensives were the successful punitive actions on Del Monte Philippines plantation, the raid conducted on an army detachment in Barangay Lantad, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental.
Part of these actions was the confiscation of firearms of Dasia Security Agency in Tagum City and the raid on Philippine National Police headquarters in Kibawe town in Bukidnon and Don Victoriano, Misamis Occidental.
Meanwhile, Madlos, through a press statement, said the Aquino regime has no capacity to alleviate the misery felt by the survivors of Tropical Storm Sendong and typhoons Pablo and Yolanda because it is preoccupied in squandering the people’s money.
Truce violation
In a statement e-mailed to Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro on Friday, the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Battalion (8IB) said the NPA violated the truce between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the CPP.
The military troops under the Barangay Assistance Team for Peace and Development (BATPD) in Sitio Ulayanon, Barangay Kalabugao, Impasug-ong, Bukidnon were allegedly harassed by the members of the NPA using high-powered weapons.
The harassment happened on the same day the CPP commemorated its founding anniversary on December 26, said the army.
The aim of the BATPD, a team of soldiers who were deployed in the different villages in Impasug-ong, is to assist the local government unit in the delivery of basic services and in the implementation of government programs and projects in the area, the military unit added.
“One soldier, namely, Private First class Akmad Maruhom, was killed-in-action,” the 8IB statement said, stressing the attack was a violation of the CPP’s declaration of ceasefire.
“The actions of the NPAs in the area clearly violated this previously announced truce from their side. The incident was the second time that the rebels carried out to inflict casualty among our troops facilitating peace and development activities in the area. First was on November 28 this year when they also perpetrated the same harassment in the area resulting to one soldier wounded,” the unit said.
“It only shows that they (NPA) are deceptive of their pronouncements. In fact, they intend on sowing fear and violence in local communities. More so, they are anti-development and anti-poor,” it added.
The army unit also said that “the CPP-NPA wants the people to continue with their misery so that they can continue to deceive them. In the spirit of Christmas and our strong adherence to peace and development, we once again call on the CPP-NPA to once and for all denounce “armed struggle” and follow the path of peace.”
Captain Christian Uy, 4th Infantry Division (4ID) spokesman, said the division was dismayed “over the actions of the rebels” amid the temporary truce while the whole world is celebrating Christmas and New Year.
There were no reported casualties on the rebel side and the civilians, Uy added.
He said the military has been doing community works, especially in the hinterland villages, in a bid to discourage residents from joining the armed revolutionary movement. (With Loui S. Maliza/Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro/Sunnex)
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on December 28, 2013.
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Post by dodger on Dec 30, 2013 2:55:33 GMT
Aquino’s hollow claims of peace efforts, cover up for military abuses
under Oplan Bayanihan—CPP
December 29, 2013  Communist Party of the Philippines
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) dismissed as “hollow but loud” the declarations made by the Aquino government that it is seeking ways of resuming peace negotiations with the revolutionary forces. The CPP charged that the only aim of such a declaration is to misrepresent the war-seeking Aquino government as peace-loving and cover up widespread military abuses committed in the conduct of its Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression in the countryside.
Yesterday, the Aquino government claimed “it will not not close the peace table” and that it will “combine to seek ways to resume negotiations on the basis of a doable and time bound agenda.” Aquino’s Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles issued the statement yesterday after the CPP Central Committee said “It has no choice but to wait for the next regime to engage in serious negotiations” after the Aquino regime “has proven its unwillingness to negotiate a just peace.”
In its statement on the occasion of the CPP’s 45th anniversary last December 26, the CPP Central Committee said the revolutionary movement does not expect the resumption of peace negotiations with the Aquino regime.
“So far, claims made by the Aquino government that it wants to pursue peace negotiations with the revolutionary forces represented by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has proven to be empty,” said the CPP. “Instead of pursuing formal peace negotiations, Aquino has simply been making empty peace declarations in the media, but off-camera, he has been waging a brutal war in the countryside.”
“While waging revolutionary struggle, the Filipino people and their revolutionary forces have an unlimited supply of patience to wait for the GPH to make concrete steps and positive gestures to boost the resumption of formal peace negotiations on the basis of The Hague Joint Declaration of 1992, the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and the series of joint agreements signed in the course of 25 years of NDFP-GPH negotiations,” said the CPP.
In April this year, Deles announced that the Royal Norwegian Government (RNG) had already been formally informed of the Aquino regime’s intention of terminating its peace negotiations with the NDFP. The RNG serves as the facilitator of the NDFP-GPH talks. Earlier, then head of the GPH peace panel Alexander Padilla unilaterally declared that the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) was “inoperable” after repeatedly violating it with the successive arrests of NDFP peace consultants.
“Since the start, the GPH has been working hard to end formal peace talks by renouncing all previous agreements and insisting that peace talks cannot proceed without the NDFP agreeing to declare one ceasefire after another,” pointed out the CPP.
“It has shown utter disregard of the outstanding agreements by violating these with impunity in the successive arrests of NDFP peace personnel and refusing to comply with its obligations to release the said consultants who are covered by the immunity guarantees stipulated in the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG),” said the CPP. “It has further refused to work with the NDFP panel to reconstruct the list of names of NDFP peace personnel, the computer file of which was damaged in the course of the GPH-instigated raid on the offices of the NDFP in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2007.”
“To conceal the bellicosity of the Aquino regime after declaring an end to peace negotiations with the NDFP, Deles has been making repeated claims in the media that it is coming up with a ‘new mechanism’ to pursue peace negotiations with the NDFP.”
“We have yet to see even a shadow of this so-called ‘new mechanism,’ leading us to the conclusion that there, in fact, exists no such thing except for the old worn-out scheme of localized peace talks that seek to divide and pacify the revolutionary forces,” said the CPP. “Through such schemes, Aquino and his peace officials only want to make use of their so-called peace agenda as a scam to justify the allocation of tens of billions of pesos of public funds which only end up lining up the pockets of military officials and corrupt bureaucrats.”
“The Aquino regime insists on making such hollow but loud claims in the media of intending to pursue peace talks with the NDFP with the simple aim of camouflaging the brutalities and abuses being committed by its armed forces against civilians in areas it suspects as base areas of the revolutionary movement.”
“The Aquino regime is proving itself worse than Arroyo in terms of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law,” added the CPP. “Aquino’s armed forces have abused the rights and welfare of children, women and the elderly. Over the past three years, at least one critic of the Aquino regime active in democratic struggles has been murdered every week. Hundreds remain jailed for their political advocacies. Entire communities have been subjected to terrorist aerial bombing runs that endanger the lives of people and cause massive damage to public infrastructure and the environment.”
“Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan military campaigns have been conducted with a clear aim of suppressing the people from waging democratic struggles for land reform and opposing the entry of large scale mining companies and logging operations,” pointed out the CPP. “The Aquino regime is pushing the people to carry out democratic mass struggles and wage armed resistance.”
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Post by dodger on Dec 30, 2013 3:34:55 GMT
NPA 'penalizes' members behind La Castellana ambush
BY RAPPLER.COM POSTED ON 12/29/2013 5:46 PM | UPDATED 12/29/2013 6:03  ONE YEAR. Residents of La Castellana, Negros Occidental, after the fatal ambush that killed 9 on January 27, 2013. Photo from the Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office MANILA, Philippines – Close to a year after the ambush in La Castellana, Negros Occidental that claimed the lives of 9 people, the New People's Army (NPA) on Sunday, December 29 said it has "penalized" members responsible for the incident.
This was announced by the Apolinario Gatmaitan Command in a statement. The announcement, however, did not elaborate on the kind of sanctions imposed on the members.
Rebel spokesperson Juanito Magbanua said the rebel troops responsible for the ambush had violated the rules and regulations of the NPA.
On January 27, 2013, 9 people – including a cop and members of a Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team – were killed in an ambush by about 20 members of the New People's Army in Brgy Puso, La Castellana in Negros Occidental. The victims were on their way home from a fiesta. (WATCH: The ambush in La Castellana)
Police investigation shortly after the incident found that the victims were all shot in the head.
But Magbanua reiterated that members of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team who were killed in the ambush had firearms.
Earlier, the NPA Leonardo Panaligan Command also apologized for the gruesome incident in a tape-recorded statement by its spokesperson Ka JB Regalado.
Talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) collapsed in February 2013 when the two panels couldn't agree on the initial agenda of the negotiations.
On its 45th anniversary on December 26, the CPP said it is giving up on the negotiations with the Aquino administration. But the government said it would continue to push for the talks. - Rappler.com |
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Post by dodger on Dec 30, 2013 4:05:56 GMT
asiancorrespondent.com/117737/at-45-the-npas-are-still-a-long-way-to-victory/At 45, the NPAs are still a long way to ‘victory’
By Edwin Espejo Dec 29, 2013 8:05AM UTC They are not yet ready to show their faces – at least that’s the leadership of the Far South Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its military wing the New People’s Army.
That is the reason they gave to explain why TV cameras were not allowed inside the ‘guerrilla zone’. On December 26, on the day the CPP celebrated its 45th founding anniversary, Mindanao’s fastest growing regional command of the communist underground movement opened up a little of its strongest five guerrilla fronts to a few General Santos City-based reporters somewhere in Cotabato.
Ka Efren, spokesman of the rebel group’s umbrella organization, the National Democratic Front (NDF), said the time will come when they will be ready to give their regional command a “face” – similar to the more vocal and open Ka Oris of NDF Mindanao who also held a similar press conference somewhere in Agusan del Sur. (The Southern Mindanao region of the CPP-NP-NDF likewise invited members of the local press in Compostela Valley).
Ka Efren: "We will persevere no matter how long it takes."
He said the Far South is making inroads and rapidly expanding their influence in the region which includes the whole of South Cotabato and Sarangani, portions of Sultan Kudarat, Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces.
The area where they celebrated their founding anniversary is part of its Guerrilla Front 72 , one of the oldest in Mindanao and is also the strongest in the Far South region.
It has a company-size formation of young guerrilla fighters, most of them sons and daughters of peasants and farmers.
Its main regular unit, also called ‘sentro de grabidad’ or SDG, headed by Ka Dencio Madrigal, was said to be in another guerrilla front. Ka Dencio is Far South’s most wanted man by the military.
Young fighters
Ka Jam, commanding officer of the Mt. Alip Command (Front 72), can easily pass himself off as a college student about to get his diploma.
But at 33, he is the oldest among the ‘Red’ fighters of Front 72.
“The average age is about 25. Our youngest is 19. I am 33,” Ka Jam said
Jam started as a church worker and was influenced by an older brother into joining the NPA.
“I began as an activist in 1999 and got into integration with the (NPA) unit in 2000,” he narrated.
Jam said he decided he wanted to be a red fighter right then and there. When he went home, his only purpose was to tell his parents of his decision to join the NPA.
It was a slow rise for Jam, frail at about 5’4” tall, who became the commanding officer of the Mt. Alip Command.
A political officer of the NPAs explains to Erningand Eden
the task of their son Ka Diego in the guerrilla movement.
After the anniversary program, 22-year-old Ka Diego had a reunion with his parents who had to walk, travel by bus, then walk again to meet their eldest son. Erning and Eden came all the way from a remote village in Banga, South Cotabato to see Ka Diego who they have not seen in seven months.
Erning was teary-eyed, holding the AK-47 issued to his son. Erning and his wife brought along their six-year old youngest son. Their only daughter was left behind to tend to their home.
Not far away, a young woman Red fighter is carrying – nay, hugging – her son not even a year old. She has to leave her child to the care of relatives as she and her husband have opted to pursue the 45-year-old armed struggle of the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Such sacrifices are not uncommon for fulltime guerrilla fighters.
Ka Efren and his wife, who is also a fulltime communist cadre, had their Grade 7 son as their special ‘visitor.’
Ka Jam said the biggest ‘victory’ they achieved this year was the ambush of soldiers belonging to the 38th Infantry Battalion in Bituan, Tulunan in Cotabato province.
The NPA detonated a command controlled land mine just as a military semi-truck passed the ‘killing zone.’ Six soldiers and three militiamen were killed following a volume of fire from the NPAs waiting by the roadside as the landmine exploded.
The military claimed the NPAs used excessive fire to dismember some of the dead soldiers.
Ka Jam however said the soldiers were directly hit by the explosive and this explained the mangled faces of the soldiers.
He said they just fired three M-203 shells and used less than 500 rounds of ammunition. In the aftermath, Ka Jam said they were able to confiscate seven high powered rifles.
Capt. Ernesto Aguilar, the highest ranking officer who was with the semi-truck, managed to survive and escape capture.
There were at least four other major encounters in Front 72. Ka Jam said they inflicted considerable casualties to government soldiers while suffering one ‘comrade’ killed in action in 2013.
Still a long way
In 2008, Ka Oris, NDF Mindanao spokesman, said they were aiming at a strategic stalemate in five years.
In the Rappler story by Karlos Manlupig, Ka Oris did not make any reference to his 2008 statement as their target is coming to pass this year.
But Ka Efren said they are prepared to bring their revolution to the next level (strategic stalemate) no matter how long it will take.
Like Ka Oris, he noted the steady rise in the number of tactical offensives, new recruits and armaments over the last few years.
“Our tactical offensives will became bigger, more frequent and in more locations next year,” said Ka Efren.
It is a veiled warning shared by Ka Jam who said while the NPAs perform their revolutionary tasks of implementing the rebels’ own brand of
agrarian revolution’ and building their mass base, they have not lost sight of their principal function and that is engaging in guerrilla warfare.
Ka Efren later addressed their supporters, numbering about 1,000, and laid down their ‘tasks’ in the next few years to include building organs of political power – a euphemism for their “shadow government.”
NPA strength
After 45 years of guerrilla warfare, the CPP-NPA-NDF is the oldest ongoing communist-led insurgency in Asia.
It is nowhere near the strategic stalemate stage – a stage where they are supposed to be in parity with the Philippine government in warfare capability. They are not necessarily at parity in arms and strength but at the point when the government cannot defeat it while the communist is not yet capable of overthrowing the existing order.
In a statement, the Central Committee of the CPP however said it has reached a point where the military cannot sustain offensive operations “for six months to one year on more than 10% of the guerrilla fronts.”
The communist rebels said they now have a total of 110 guerrilla fronts in substantial portions in 71 of the country’s 81 provinces. Forty-six (46) of these guerrilla fronts are in the Mindanao mainland where the NPAs are strongest. A typical guerrilla front has at least a NPA-level company size formation which include two regular platoons and a detach unit.
The CPP said it needs to increase its armed regulars to 25,000 and its party membership to 250,000 in order to advance its ‘revolution’ to the next stage.
Ka Oris said there are now 10,000 party members in Mindanao.
But in an unprecedented admission, the CPP also conceded the communist movement throughout the world is “in a period of temporary defeat and strategic retreat…because of the sabotage and betrayal carried out by the modern revisionists.”
It took China and Russia to task for joining the world ‘capitalist order’ in full – a reality that is not lost to the military.
The NPAs claim they are getting even stronger despite military claim to the contrary.
Belittled
Maj. Gen. Rainer Cruz, head of the Mindanao Eastern Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, however belittled the anniversary celebrations of the communists,
“Are they still there?” he said in jest.
The Philippine military said the NPAs are now down to less than 4,000 nationwide and no more than 1,500 in Mindanao.
Cruz said the rebels are no longer getting fresh recruits and have reduced themselves to thugs and extortionists.
Incidentally for the general, it is in his area of responsibility where the communists and the NPAs are at their strongest nationwide.
The guerilla fronts of the Northeastern, Southern, Northcentral and Far South Mindanao commands of the NPAs are among the resilient and most active in the country today.
“From only 250 TOs (tactical offensives) in 2010, this has increased to 350 in 2011, to 400 in 2012 and to more than 400 in the entire year of 2013,” Ka Oris said in a statement read before members of the press in Agusan del Sur.
December 26 also marked the first time in the history of Mindanao’s communist movement that these regions – Northeast, Southern and Far South – held simultaneous press conferences.
In 2010, Ka Oris said they have almost reached the 1980s level of armed strength when the CPP-NPA-NDF were at their strongest. At that time, during the Marcos dictatorship, the military placed their armed strength at 25,000.
CPP statements however said, their armed regulars at that time were less than 10,000.
The communists defined the stages of their armed struggle in three – strategic defensive, strategic stalemate and strategic offensive.
But on its 45th anniversary, the CPP said it is still on the verge of completing the requisites to advance its ‘armed struggle’ to the strategic stalemate.
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Post by dodger on Dec 30, 2013 8:59:39 GMT
Message on the 45th anniversary of the CPP, 30th year of the CPP NEMR Committee
Thursday, 26 December 2013 15:37 By MARIA MALAYA
Spokesperson, NDFP Northeast Mindanao Chapter
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-North Eastern Mindanao Region (NDFP-NEMR) and its member organizations, salute and convey its greetings to the Communist Party of the Philippines-MLM in its 45th year this 2013. The Peoples’ Democratic Revolution went through many hardships, weaknesses and mistakes within its 45 years of advancement. It suffered deviations and temporary setbacks, but under the correct leadership of the CPP, guided by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, it was able to launch rectifications movements.
We are ever grateful to the campaigns of the two rectification movements of the Communist Party of the Philippines. These pushed forward the Philippine revolution to its 45th year as it perseveres and frustrates the powerful US imperialists and its obedient puppets.
The first rectification movement was the re-establishment of the CPP in 1968 from the old Communist Party of the Philippines which was destroyed by the Lavas and Tarucs. The second rectification movement was launched in 1992 onwards. This saved the entire revolutionary movement from the threat of anihilation and enabled ts resurgence from deviations and mistakes.
The 45 years of the PDR’s advance and perseverance is confirmation that we will attain victory in the near future. NDFP-NEMR is confident that victory is imminent. If the PDR is able to achieve initial victories in several of the consolidated guerilla bases in the region’s countrysides, then there is no reason for us to fail to bring the PDR to total victory where the ruling classes and the enemies of the people will have no place.
We can only achieve victory under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines-MLM. By the advance of millions of people we will be able to establish peoples democratic governments from the barrios and the entire country. Through the soldiers of people, the New Peoples Army, we will annihilate the armed forces of the puppet republics of the Philippines along with US imperialists.
Long live the 45th year anniversary of the CPP!
Long live the struggling people!
Long live the soldiers of the people!
Join the New Peoples Army
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Post by dodger on Dec 31, 2013 10:11:03 GMT
Revolutionary Justice was Meted out to the Butcher, Hugo Capilastique Jr
December 30, 2013 NPA unit kills notorious armed gangster in Badiangan, Iloilo arrest operation
By People's Court Panay
NDFP Panay Provisional People's Government
Community residents protest armed harassments by armed gang RPA/ABB Demetrio Capilastique Jr alias Hugo is the regional commander of RPA-ABB in Panay. Since 1994 he has been in the leadership of the traitorous counter- revolutionary RPA-ABB in the island.
There has been no end to the crimes and atrocities against the people committed by this ’special CAFGU’ and mercenary band of which Capilastique bears the primary responsibility being the highest military official of the RPA-ABB in the region eversince their leader Daniel Batoy alias Mokong was meted out the death penalty by the revolutionary movement on August 22, 2004.
The crimes and accusations against Demetrio Capilastique Jr alias Hugo have been piling up since 1994 to the present. He never stopped committing heinous crimes and bear blood debts. The Communist Party and New People’s Army in Panay have repeatedly warned Capilastique to stop and desist from leading, commanding and taking direct hand in atrocious crimes against the common people. These were not heeded by Capilastique and instead committed even worse criminal and traitorous acts. The following are some of the heinous crimes which Capilastique had a direct hand in or were executed under his command.
1. He is part of the leadership who committed the crime of mutiny against the legitimate leadership of the Party and NPA in the Southern Front in 1994. Together with Daniel Batoy, Capilastique led a significant portion of the NPA in the South to split from the revolutionary movement and conspire with the AFP and PNP against the revolution.
2. In collaboration with Nilo dela Cruz, Capilastique took part in planning the abduction of Luisa Posa and Nilo Arado at Oton in April 12, 2007. Luisa and Nilo were open mass leaders of progressive organizations in Panay.
3. The ambush and killing of Atty. Edgar Calizo in Kalibo, Aklan in 2004. The RPA-ABB was paid by Calizo’s adversary in a land dispute.
4. The ambush and killing of Jessie Cabalfin, a businessman at Buga, Leon in 2005.
5. The killing of Antonio Camiring and son Hilbert of Pepe, Leon in December 23, 2006.
6. The killing of a civilian named Ruel Tamano of Isauan, Tigbauan in 1994.
7. The killing of Virgilio Tubellera of sityo Lomboy, Bagacay, Tigbauan, 1995.
8. The killing of Rogelio Tabion of barangay Hamog, Leon in 1996.
9. The killing of Hernani Templo at sityo Lomboy, Bagacay, 1998.
10. The killing of Manuel Tacan of Ayubo, Tubungan, 1998.
11. The killing of Fred Cayapa of Cansilayan, Tigbauan, 2001.
12. The killing of Jimmy Gilange of Binanwaan, Camangahan, Guimbal, 2002.
13. With Daniel Batoy, Capilastique took part in planning the kidnapping and killing of Leovic Gutierrez, a mountaineer from Metro Manila, in the mountains of Aklan in 2003. They kidnapped and killed the victim. They asked for ransom money from the victim’s family as they denied any involvement of the crime.
14. To control the quarrying business along the Suague River in Janiuay and to extort money, the RPA-ABB led by Capilastique killed Juanito Lutero (1998) who owns large tracts of lands near the Suague River and Barangay Captain Jerry Colaja of Barangay Quipot, Janiuay. To take a double-crop from their extortion activities, the RPA-ABB also killed Miao Aportadera who designed and paid the RPA-ABB for the killing of Lutero.
15. Demetrio Capilastique, Jr was also involved in the 2002 kidnapping case of Jefferson Tan, son of a businessman in Iloilo. Capilastique’s mercenary gang are being coddled and protected by the AFP and the police in order to do paid and ”dirty jobs” for them. This is the reason why
Capilastique’s gang was audacious enough to ambush even elements of the police of Janiuay in Brgy Patong-patong in March 29, 2008. A policeman was killed and two others were injured. But no one from the RPA-ABB was ever arrested and convicted of this crime. Aside from killings, Capilastique is also notorious in running a protection racket by extorting money from business people and barangay officials in different barrios under their control. Whoever refuses to submit would be punished by hold-up if not murder.
Since 1994 to the present Capilastique’s bandit gang has committed murder and extortion in the towns of Tigbauan, Leon, Tubungan, Guimbal, Janiuay, San Joaquin in the province of Iloilo; in the towns of Ibajay, Buruanga, Makato and Kalibo in Aklan and in Sibalom and Culasi in Antique.
The biggest racket of Capilastique is in controlling quarry operations at Suage River. The killing of Jerry Colaja of Quipot, Janiuay was over the control of quarry at the Suage. Capilastique extorts P10 per truck of sand from quarry concessionaires aside from having his own quarry business. Capilastique has never been arrested for extortion but rather does it brazenly. The collapse of Suage Bridge wrought by supertyphoon Yolanda last November 8 was in fact due to uncontrolled quarrying. Not a single municipal official of Janiuay nor any provincial official ever complained and proposed a law to put an end to this ruinous quarrying.
After a thorough and objective investigations of these accusations, the People’s Court had passed a judgment that these crimes were indeed heinous and Capilastique has blood debts.
Since 2001, Capilastique has already been sentenced to death on the series of crimes committed by RPA-ABB in Iloilo where Capilastique was its provincial commander. The People’s Court had ordered the arrest of Demetrio Capilastique Jr in order to face the charges against him. Aggrieved parties are interested to directly investigate Capilastique about his crimes and the whrereabouts of those they had abducted that are still missing.
In carrying out the court’s order the NPA unit were reminded that they are about to arrest a fierce, armed and dangerous criminal. The arresting NPA unit tried to arrest Capilastique but instead of submitting, he violently resisted. Thus the unit was forced to defend itself and neutralize him.
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