Posted to Kalinaw News (Mar 12, 2020): Labor organizer turns-over two firearms, admits NPA membership (By 2nd Infantry Division)
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CAMP CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal – A labor organizer confessed his membership to the communist terrorist group’s underground movement after he surrendered his two unlicensed firearms to joint AFP and PNP forces at Sta Rosa City on Wednesday.
The surrendered personality admitted that several employees’ unions in Southern Tagalog have been infiltrated by NPA-affiliated personalities with the intention of sowing and exploiting alleged labor issues, a standard action among the terrorists’ white area operators to sabotage multinational companies’ operations in the country.
Col Alex S Rillera, Commander of the 202nd Infantry Brigade which has operational jurisdiction over Region 4A’s vast industrial zones, said that a Cal .38 pistol and a shotgun were recovered by security forces along with CPP-NPA and KMU Flags as well as numerous communist terrorist documents.
“This incident shows another direct link of the NPAs to those so-called progressive groups who sugarcoat their anti-progress and anti-development intentions under the guise of compassion to our country’s labor sector”, added Col Rillera.
Several progressive groups recently came under fire and were the subject of Senate inquiry due to allegations made by a group of parents that they are NPA fronts in recruiting students and minors to join the rebels .
He ended his statement by reaffirming his soldiers’ “commitment to liberate CALABARZON from the clutches of NPA terrorism, both from the threats posed by their few remaining fighters and from the deception of their cadres who are operating in the urban areas, so that lasting peace will reign and the region’s economic potentials will be optimized.”
Per the military’s intelligence assessments, the communist terrorists have intensified their expansion of operations to urban areas, particularly the industrial zones, to coerce companies to give in to their extortion demands to cover the “losses” that they have incurred due to the cessation of foreign funding coming mostly from European countries.
Major General Arnulfo Marcelo B Burgos Jr, Commander of the Philippine Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, lauded the surrender saying that “such voluntary surrender of a cadre operating in the white area is a manifestation of the growing unrest among the NPA’s ranks, including those in their so-called legal organizations, which supports our claim that insurgency in this part of the country is, indeed, on the verge of collapse.”
He said that the communist terrorists’ worst nightmare of being irrelevant has already reached an irreversible stage as indicated by the NPA’s low number of manpower, inability to recruit quality cadres, series of mass surrenders, loss of popular support and the recent neutralization of top leaders.
“We are confident that through the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, Southern Tagalog will be insurgency free before the end of President Duterte’s term thereby making prosperity a way of life in this part of the country”, ended MGen Burgos.
The military are expecting more surrenders from the white area after receiving feelers from known left-leaning labor organizers.
The name of the personality who surrendered is being withheld as part of security protocol to prevent possible coercive actions from the NPAs. He is currently undergoing debriefing as preliminary action to his enrolment to the government’s Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program.
CAMP CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal – A labor organizer confessed his membership to the communist terrorist group’s underground movement after he surrendered his two unlicensed firearms to joint AFP and PNP forces at Sta Rosa City on Wednesday.
The surrendered personality admitted that several employees’ unions in Southern Tagalog have been infiltrated by NPA-affiliated personalities with the intention of sowing and exploiting alleged labor issues, a standard action among the terrorists’ white area operators to sabotage multinational companies’ operations in the country.
Col Alex S Rillera, Commander of the 202nd Infantry Brigade which has operational jurisdiction over Region 4A’s vast industrial zones, said that a Cal .38 pistol and a shotgun were recovered by security forces along with CPP-NPA and KMU Flags as well as numerous communist terrorist documents.
“This incident shows another direct link of the NPAs to those so-called progressive groups who sugarcoat their anti-progress and anti-development intentions under the guise of compassion to our country’s labor sector”, added Col Rillera.
Several progressive groups recently came under fire and were the subject of Senate inquiry due to allegations made by a group of parents that they are NPA fronts in recruiting students and minors to join the rebels .
He ended his statement by reaffirming his soldiers’ “commitment to liberate CALABARZON from the clutches of NPA terrorism, both from the threats posed by their few remaining fighters and from the deception of their cadres who are operating in the urban areas, so that lasting peace will reign and the region’s economic potentials will be optimized.”
Per the military’s intelligence assessments, the communist terrorists have intensified their expansion of operations to urban areas, particularly the industrial zones, to coerce companies to give in to their extortion demands to cover the “losses” that they have incurred due to the cessation of foreign funding coming mostly from European countries.
Major General Arnulfo Marcelo B Burgos Jr, Commander of the Philippine Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, lauded the surrender saying that “such voluntary surrender of a cadre operating in the white area is a manifestation of the growing unrest among the NPA’s ranks, including those in their so-called legal organizations, which supports our claim that insurgency in this part of the country is, indeed, on the verge of collapse.”
He said that the communist terrorists’ worst nightmare of being irrelevant has already reached an irreversible stage as indicated by the NPA’s low number of manpower, inability to recruit quality cadres, series of mass surrenders, loss of popular support and the recent neutralization of top leaders.
“We are confident that through the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, Southern Tagalog will be insurgency free before the end of President Duterte’s term thereby making prosperity a way of life in this part of the country”, ended MGen Burgos.
The military are expecting more surrenders from the white area after receiving feelers from known left-leaning labor organizers.
The name of the personality who surrendered is being withheld as part of security protocol to prevent possible coercive actions from the NPAs. He is currently undergoing debriefing as preliminary action to his enrolment to the government’s Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program.
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