Victorious NPA offensives
Succesive tactical offensives in Central Luzon

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Four successive tactical offensives launched in the second week of December demonstrate the higher fighting capacity of the New People's Army (NPA) in Central Luzon. Adding those confiscated in the Bulacan ambush on November 30, the Red fighters accumulated 32 assorted firearms, including three M203 greande launchers and an M60 machine gun, computers, communication equipment and important documents. Eighteen government troops and a security guard were killed in these offensives.

In Tarlac. NPA partisan operatives arrested and punished SPO2 Froilan Biag, an operative of the Tarlac PNP Intelligence Division, in Sitio Molave, Barangay San Isidro, Tarlac City on the night of December 14. According to the Nelson Mesina Command, Biag was sentenced to death because of his espionage activities against the revolutionary movement. The guerrillas merely disarmed and did not harm another policeman who was with Biag at the time of his arrest. The partisans confiscated an M16, a .45 pistol and a number of valuable documents.

In Pampanga. Red fighters attacked the tactical command post (TCP) of the 69th IB's Special Operations Team in Barangay Masangsang, Mexico, Pampanga on December 12. According to the Josepino Corpuz Command of the NPA-Central Luzon, the raid was undertaken a few weeks after local officials complained to the NPA about the presence of abusive military elements in the barrios on the eastern part of Mexico, Pampanga.

At around 2:30 in the afternoon, a team under the Palermo Orta�ez Command arrived aboard a van at the Castro Building in the town center. The four Red fighters dressed in soldier's uniforms quickly entered the building and went to the TCP on the second floor which also served as a safehouse for military intelligence agents. Two soldiers who happened to be at the TCP were disarmed and treated well by the guerrillas.

The entire operation was over in 20 minutes. The NPA seized three M16s, an M203, two computers, two cellphones, a GPS receiver, documents and uniforms.

In Zambales. Red fighters aboard a motor vehicle raided a police detachment in Barangay Bareto, Olongapo City on the evening of December 9. Three policemen and their security guard asset were killed and another policeman was wounded. Among those killed was Police Station 6 deputy commander Sr. Insp. Ernesto Cruz. The NPA seized three M16 rifles.

According to Communist Party of the Philippines-Central Luzon spokesperson Salud Rojas, these assaults signal the intensification of NPA tactical offensives in the region against the AFP and PNP which attack unarmed and defenseless civilians.

21 December 2004
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