Victorious NPA offensives:
Series of offensives launched in February

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

Philippine Army troops, CAFGU forces ambushed in Capiz. Six soldiers belonging to the Special Operations Team under Task Force Panay and a CAFGU element were killed in an ambush on February 24 staged by Red fighters of the Jose Percival Estocada Command-Central Front in Barangay Daan Sur, Tapaz. One other soldier was wounded. The team had broken away from an 18-man platoon of the 12th IB when it was ambushed while crossing Sibaguan creek.

The enemy force was almost wiped out. Seized from the soldiers were four M16s, an M203, an M14 and a UHF radio. On the other hand, the Coronacion "Waling-Waling" Chiva Command-Panay announced that the ambuscade's leader, Ismael "Ka Bob" Geganto, was martyred in this firefight.

10 high-powered firearms seized in Agusan del Sur. Red fighters conducted a raid without firing a single shot on the detachment of the 36th IB in Barangay Zamora, Talacogon on February 16. They seized seven M14s, two M16s, a Garand, ammunition of various caliber and fatigue uniforms.

Police detachment raided in Sorsogon. Three policemen were killed and an M16 was confiscated in an NPA raid in Gubat on the night of February 14. The NPA was able to conduct the daring raid on the Kababayan Police Assistance Center, which is merely 300 meters away from the Gubat Municipal Police Station and the headquarters of the 508th Mobile Police Group and the 21st IB. Prior to this, the NPA conducted simultaneous harassment operations on the night of February 13 against PNP detachments in Barangay Tandaay, Nabua and Barangay Parubcan, Presentacion, both in Camarines Sur.

10 soldiers killed in Zambales. Contrary to reports from the Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom), not two but 10 soldiers from the 24th IB were killed in a clash in Barangay Cabauatan, Botolan on February 1 (not February 7, as previously reported). Many other soldiers were wounded, according to a clarificatory statement from Jose Agtalon, spokesperson of the Josepino Corpuz Command (NPA-Central). Agtalon likewise belied military reports that 18 NPA fighters were killed in the fighting. Agtalon said that one Red fighter was martyred.

As a result of their defeat, the fascist military vent its ire on suspected sympathizers of the revolutionary movement. Agtalon said soldiers of the 24th IB massacred six members of an Aeta family in Sitio Palis, Barangay Magisgis, Botolan. They also sowed violence in the neighboring sitio of Nakolkol.

Notorious police chief punished in Cavite. A special team of operatives from the Melito Glor Command (NPA-Southern Tagalog) successfully meted punishment on Sr. Supt. Eriberto Paglinawan on the morning of February 14. Paglinawan, the police chief of Cabuyao, Laguna, was punished in Barangay Lumil, Silang, Cavite on the morning of February 14. The NPA seized his M14 and .45 pistol.

In a statement, Melito Glor Command spokesperson Tirso "Ka Bart" Alcantara said Paglinawan's latest cases involved his having directly led brutal dispersal operations against barricades and picket lines set up by striking workers of Nestl�-Philippines in Sala, Cabuyao, Laguna. In an incident that occurred on June 3, up to 17 workers were wounded, including some who sustained arm and shoulder fractures and severe head injuries. Many others were mercilessly truncheoned, beaten up, stoned, hosed with a water-chemical mixture and teargassed. He also conducted zoning, harassment and intelligence operations in communities that were strongly supportive of the strike.

Paglinawan has long been active in intelligence and "anti-insurgency" campaigns. Before his assignment as chief of the Cabuyao PNP in 1988, Paglinawan was assigned at the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division at Camp Vicente Lim in Laguna.

07 March 2003
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