Onward to 2000
Southern Tagalog met the year 2000 head-on with the continued launching of tactical offensives.
A Philippine Army soldier died and two others were seriously wounded in an ambush by NPA guerrillas in Laguna on February 15. The three soldiers who belonged to the 9th Scout Ranger Coy were aboard a Kennedy-type jeep when they were ambushed along the highway of Barangay Amuyong, Mabitac, near the Laguna- Rizal border.
Meanwhile, three elements who wrought harm on the people and the revolutionary movement were punished by the NPA in January and February. Two .45 pistols were seized in these operations. On February 6, the NPA punished Oscar Aldaba, mayor of San Teodoro, Oriental Mindoro.
Aldaba was a Philippine Army major and intelligence official. His counterrevolutionary crimes included the abduction of a former Red fighter and the execution of a local mass leader.
Capt. Henry Oben was also punished in Sampaloc, Tanay, Rizal on January 15. Oben was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division based in Camp Capinpin, Tanay. Confiscated from Oben was a .45.
On January 4, PO2 Tito Corpuz of Barangay Fatima, Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro was also punished. Corpuz who belonged to the Provincial Police Mobile Group was involved in intelligence activities. A .45 was confiscated from him.
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