The AFP continues to announce that they are winning against the NPA.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127119 |
The 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) of the Philippine Army is winning in its campaign against the communist terrorist groups (CTGs) in Panay.
Maj. Cenon Pancito III, the spokesperson of the 3ID, in an interview on Wednesday, said they have “successfully achieved” their objectives for 2020.
Data provided by the spokesman showed that last year 15 barangays in Panay composed of 11 from Iloilo and four from Capiz were cleared from the influence of CTGs.
Their continuous campaign also resulted in the neutralization of 25 CTG members to include one who surrendered from Capiz; while in Iloilo four were killed, 12 have surrendered, and eight were apprehended.
Their operations yielded a total of 11 low-powered firearms and eight high-powered firearms.
“Our tools and tactics have proven effective as government troops retain the upper hand in our fight with the insurgents,” Pancito said.
Among those that tactics employed were the deployment of community support teams in the so-called influenced barangays, focused military operations, and active participation on the whole of nation approach.
Pancito said though Barangay Katipunan has been cleared from the influence of the CTGs, there is still a need to revisit the place.
He said Katipunan is within the “guerrilla base” of NPA rebels so there is a need to follow up after they carried out community support program efforts.
“For now we have deployed seven teams to nine adjacent barangays so the cleared areas will be widened and will not be easily recovered by the enemies. We have noted that these areas are the stronghold of the NPAs, they have been there for decades so we need to have more intensified efforts in our clearing,” he added.
In the NPA stronghold of Samar the PNP says continual operations have resulted in losses for the Reds.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127440 |
Communist terrorists have suffered losses during three days of internal security operations by the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) in Samar this week, the country's top cop said on Friday.
PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said a newly-recruited New People's Army (NPA) fighter identified as Alger Morillo, a native of Northern Samar, died in a clash with government troops in Barangay Inubod, Matuginao, Samar that lasted for an hour and 15 minutes on Jan. 10.
On Jan. 11, a 10-minute encounter ensued in the village that led to the recovery of more equipment and supplies left by the fleeing NPA terrorists.
On Jan. 12, a SAF team recovered an improvised sniper rifle after a three-minute encounter in the same area.
Meanwhile, police units in the Caraga Region conducted checkpoint operations to intercept communist terrorists fleeing from the encounter with Philippine Army (PA) troops in Sitio Katikuyan, Barangay Camam-onan, Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte on Jan. 13.
After seizing a cache of weapons the PNP says the NPA is also weakening in Palawan.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127076 |
Joint operations conducted by the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) and other security forces resulted in the recovery of a New People's Army (NPA) arms cache in northern Palawan over the weekend.
In a statement on Tuesday, PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said troops from the SAF's 101st Special Action Company, members of the Police Regional Office 4B (Mimaropa), and military troops seized high-powered firearms and other war materiel in Sitio Lanka, Barangay Bintuan, Coron, Palawan at around 4 a.m. of Jan. 9.
Recovered were two M-16 assault rifles, four rifle grenades, magazine assemblies, a bandolier, and 184 rounds of M-16 ammunition.
"The continuous operations of our troops have resulted in the NPA’s weakened state. The latest confiscation of this cache of high-powered firearms further incapacitates their key operatives," Sinas said.
Continuing operations have had the NPA either on the run or arrested. It turns out that the insurgency s a family thing in some cases.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1126981 |
Three “notorious" siblings who are communist New People’s Army (NPA) combatants from Surigao del Norte were arrested in series of police operations in neighboring Misamis Oriental Saturday afternoon (January 9).
In a press statement Monday, the Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13), identified the siblings as Jolly D. Ejos, 45; Reneboy D. Ejos, 40; and Nelson D. Ejos, 32, all residents of Purok 1, Barangay Tinago in Malimono town, Surigao del Norte.“The three notorious brothers are members of the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) involved in the killing of a certain Rogie M. Malig-on, 43, last December 18, 2018, in Purok-4, Barangay Hanagdong, Malimono, Surigao del Norte,” Brig. Gen. Romeo M. Caramat Jr., PRO-13 director, was quoted in the statement as saying.Caramat said the Ejos brothers are members of Guerilla Front 16 of the NPA's North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee and are on the list of top 10 wanted persons in Surigao del Norte.
Those brothers sound like bad dudes. But not every family member of the insurgency is guilty of crimes. Some are very innocent. One girl who was arrested last year for being a suicide bomber says her parents recruited her.
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| https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/philippine/suicide-bomb-suspect-indonesia-philippines-01152021160026.html |
A young Indonesian who was arrested in the southern Philippines on suspicion of preparing for a suicide bombing mission claimed that her now-dead parents had compelled her to join the Islamic State group, the region’s top military commander told BenarNews.
Rezky Fantasya Rullie (alias Cici and Nini Isarani) – who is believed to be in her teens or early twenties – was allowed to meet with Indonesian Consul-General Dicky Fabrian on Wednesday, said Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, the chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command who attended the meeting.
Last October, Philippine troops arrested Rullie with two Filipinas suspected of plotting suicide attacks and who were married to members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, a pro-Islamic State (IS) group based in the Philippine south.
Vinluan said Fabrian wanted to meet with Rullie to make sure “if she is really an Indonesian” by seeing her in person. The meeting took place at the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group detention facility in southern Zamboanga city, where she is being held.
“Cici narrated that, at first, she was not aware and then there was this forced marriage to one of the suicide bombers,” Vinluan told BenarNews. He was referring to Andi Baso, a suspected Indonesian suicide bomber in training who is believed to have been slain by Philippine government troops in August 2020. However, his body has not been recovered.
A forced marriage to an Abu Sayyaf member resulting in her being a suicide bomber. Pretty sad. Some are even more innocent.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127244 |
A suspected Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) rebel left her two-month-old son in the house of a villager in Talisay City, Negros Occidental to evade soldiers patrolling the area early morning on Wednesday.
Troops of the 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) arrived after learning about the presence of communist-terrorists in Hacienda Ambulog, Barangay San Fernando, prompting the woman, identified as “Ka Jandy”, and her comrade, “Ka Moneth” to flee.
“We are saddened that the two-month-old baby was abandoned by her mother because of a senseless cause. ‘Ka Jandy’ had a choice, but she chose to leave her child and go against the government,” Lt. Col. Gerard Alvaran, commanding officer of 79IB, said in a statement.
The infant was turned over by the Philippine Army and the Talisay City Police Station to the care of the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
Around 2:20 a.m., the troops came to the house of Marilyn Dianton and found the baby. Dianton told them that he is the son of “Ka Jandy”.
They recovered subversive documents with high intelligence value, medical supplies, including a pack of birth control pills, infant’s clothes, feeding bottles, disposable diapers, and other baby stuff, as well as food items such as rice, canned goods, and instant noodles.
The troops also seized three mobile phones, seven phone batteries, two cellular phone chargers, a power bank, and a gas stove with five butane fuel canisters.
"Subversive documents with high intelligence value." Now what could that be? Hopefully the AFP does not do as usual an ignore the intel. Perhaps it is good this lady abandoned her baby because for one thing now it is safe and for another it could prompt her to surrender and avail of all the benefits the government wants to give.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127216 |
A total of 222 former rebels in Northern and Central Luzon received PHP15.9-million financial assistance through the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) last year.
This is apart from the other benefits offered by different government agencies such as the “Pangkabuhayan Package” from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); educational scholarship offered by the Department of Education (DepEd); skills development training offered by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and housing assistance from the National Housing Authority (NHA).
Lt. Gen. Arnulfo Marcelo B. Burgos Jr., Nolcom commander, for his part, cited the importance of E-CLIP “in weakening and eventual dismantling of the communist terrorist group in our area of operation.”
“With this principle, continuous improvement, progressive change, Nolcom will sustain its efforts and will continue finding innovative ways in support to the implementation of the program,” Burgos said.
He expressed confidence that “more terrorists will surrender in the coming days due to the prevailing demoralization across their ranks brought about by the diminishing support of the community, as well as the lingering fear in their minds brought about by the neutralization of key personalities in their group.”
P15.9 million divided among 222 people equals roughly P71,621 each. And that does not include benefits from other government agencies. Truly surrendering is like winning the lottery.
The AFP is so pleased with these current successes that they are pushing to completely dismantle the NPA by the end of 2021.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127619 |
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Gilbert Gapay has ordered all his commanders to totally dismantle all remaining New People's Army (NPA) guerrilla fronts as the communist terrorists have been seriously weakened by government offensives."All remaining communist guerrilla fronts shall be simultaneously addressed and defeated toward the end of 2021. I noticed a lot of these NPA units have been weakened so this is our target for all the Unified Commands," he said in a statement late Saturday.Gapay also ordered all area commanders to set priority targets per quarter along with their task to expedite the clearing of identified focus areas to hasten the dismantling of remaining guerrilla fronts.A total of 54 so-called guerrilla fronts remains with nine other regional armed groups which were already decimated and on the brink of collapse. This came after the successful dismantling of 22 communist fighting and propaganda units."Focused military operations shall be intensified in order to destroy the armed groups, taking advantage of our newly acquired game-changer assets," Gapay said.
54 guerrilla fronts remains but no word on how many fronts there were before or how many fighters make up these fronts. Hopefully they succeed or get very close to success in their endeavor. The AFP says three have already been dismantled in Southern Tagalog.
“The Southern Tagalog NPAs lost another three guerilla fronts as the government’s campaign to end local armed conflict intensifies,” Captain Jayrald Ternio, head of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) public information office, said in a statement.
The three rebel strongholds were formerly being operated by communist guerillas in the provinces of Quezon, Batangas, Cavite, Rizal, Laguna and parts of Bulacan and Aurora, according to Ternio.
He described the “guerilla fronts” as local NPA organizations supposedly “responsible for extortion, murder of government officials including AFP and PNP members, harassment of businesses and destruction of flagship projects”.
“The dismantling of these fronts has effectively put an end to the NPA’s terroristic activities in most parts of Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon),” Ternio said.
Sounds like the campaign is working.
While the AFP and PNP continue their hot war against the NPA LGU's continue to proclaim the NPA as persona-non-grata.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127484 |
At least 1,513 villages in Eastern Visayas have declared the New People’s Army (NPA) persona non-grata in 2020, the Philippine Army reported on Friday.
The number represents 34 percent of the region's 4,390 villages, said Philippine Army 8th Infantry Division chief of staff, Col. Perfecto Peñaredondo, in a press briefing.
"We want all villages to declare the NPA as persona non-grata this year for all our communities not to be influenced by the communist ideology," Peñaredondo said.
The military official considers the support of local governments as a turning point in the battle against the NPA because the government has shifted from the military operations approach to whole-of-nation approach where all government agencies from national to local, including the private sector, work together to eradicate insurgency.
The declaration of local governments has contributed to the surrender of 2,754 NPA fighters and die-hard supporters in the region last year, according to the official.
"We also encourage villages in urban areas to pass a resolution declaring the NPA as persona non-grata since they are also the target for recruitment," Peñaredondo added.
The formal rejection of local governments is among the key accomplishment of the local task forces on ending local communist armed conflict in 2020.
If it works it works. The Congress is convening a charter change assembly and Senate President Sotto wants to ban party-lists who are working to overthrow the government. This is in reaction to the accusations of certain party-lists in Congress being communist fronts.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/13/21/sotto-eyes-bill-to-limit-party-lists-to-groups-not-working-to-overthrow-government |
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said a bill is being crafted in the Senate to ensure that only marginalized representatives and groups not "working for the overthrow of government" would be qualified to join the party-list race.
Sotto earlier said President Rodrigo Duterte had suggested amendments to some provisions in the Constitution to ensure that Makabayan bloc lawmakers - accused of working for communists - would be disallowed from having seats in Congress.
But, Sotto said, "there is no mention of any Makabayan bloc or any sector."
"It will be the marginalized sector that will be mentioned and clarified and sino ang puwede magrepresent sa kanila (who are eligible to represent them)," he said at the Kapihan sa Manila Bay online forum.
The Makabayan bloc qualifies under this standard as party-list groups under the the coalition represent women, farmers, and teachers, among others.
Members of the bloc have been vocal in criticizing lapses in various administrations and frequently stage rallies against several government policies.
"We can come up with a provision that if you are working for the overthrow of government, you cannot be qualified," Sotto said.
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