Victorious NPA offensives:
Angat police chief meted punishment

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Sr. Supt. Tomas de Armas, police chief of Angat, Bulacan, was meted punishment on the morning of June 7 in Sta. Cruz, Angat, Bulacan.

In a statement, the Front Operational Command of the New People's Army (NPA) in Eastern Bulacan said that de Armas was one of the principal enemies of the revolutionary movement in Angat. He was responsible for forming a broad intelligence network in the municipality, and he personally led many military operations against the NPA.

A stark example was the assault by combined military and police forces on an NPA platoon on March 29, 2003 which resulted in a 14- hour battle. The firefight began in Barangay Pulong Yantok, Angat and ended in Barangay Siling Matanda in the neighboring town of Pandi. Two fighters were martyred, while seven enemy forces, including a PNP chief inspector, were killed.

Shamed, de Armas blew up with explosives and burned down the houses of the masses in the area after the fighting. He ordered the arrest of Jose "Ka Fidel" Manabat, a local leader, who was tortured for days in a safehouse of the PNP intelligence unit in Angat until he eventually died.

De Armas benefited from the percentage cut he received from an illegal drug syndicate that operates from Barangay Binagbag, Angat all the way to Baliwag town.

He was also one of the biggest protectors of illegal sand quarrying operations in the Angat River, which wreaks great havoc on the people living in the area.

21 June 2004
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