Victories in Pampanga hailed
The New People's Army in Pampanga hailed on October 12 the victorious tactical offensives launched nationwide. The NPA said they were "a resounding reply to the regime's all-out war campaign." Particularly in Pampanga, the offensives addressed the masses' longstanding demand to "hit the terrorist AFP and the RHB bandits." Among the victorious offensives are:
August 26, 2002, 10 a.m. An NPA unit encircled a five-man Recon-Force Team of the Philippine Army's 69th IB conducting intelligence operations in Sitio Labak, Cauayan, Mexico, Pampanga. Killed in the raid was a sergeant and an intelligence officer while others were seriously wounded. Seized were an M14, an M16, a 9 mm pistol and documents.
August 30, 2002, 5:30 p.m. Red fighters ambushed an RHB bandit group at an irrigation control complex located along a river in San Patricio, Mexico. The bandits were wiped out in the daring offensive. It was the third ambush against the RHB bandits.
The bandits scampered away during the first encounter on February 14 in San Agustin, Sta. Ana and during the second one on March 11, along the spillway in Sto. Rosario, Mexico. Prior to this, the NPA had punished the RHB's notorious forces that sowed terror on innocent civilians like Rey "Karla" Lagman and others. The NPA said it obtained revolutionary justice for all of the RHB's victims.
August 31,2002,1 a.m. An NPA unit ambushed elements of a composite intelligence network from the 703rd Bde and the PNP in San Jose, Lubao aboard an owner-type jeep. They had just finished a meeting at a resort. Four enemy forces were killed in the ambush.
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