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Correspondence reports:
NPA in Mindanao gains strength and expands

 Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

The forces of the New People's Army (NPA) in Mindanao continue to grow stronger and are expected to surpass the gains they achieved in 2003.

In a statement on March 29, the Communist Party of the Philippines Mindanao Commission said that the NPA has been able to expand to 2,000 barrios or 20% of the total 10,021 barrios in Mindanao. NPA guerrilla units and organs of political power are now in place in over 200 cities and municipalities in 19 provinces in the country's second largest island. Of the 128 guerrilla fronts nationwide, 39 of them are in Mindanao.

George "Ka Oris" Madlos, NDFP-Mindanao Spokesperson
The NPA in Mindanao was able to launch over 100 tactical offensives in 2003, all of them victorious. Some of the more brilliant tactical offensives were the assaults on the detachment of the Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines (PICOP) in Bislig, Surigao del Sur; in Carmen, Agusan del Norte; in San Luis, Agusan del Sur; in San Fernando, Bukidnon; and in San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur.

About 200 high-powered rifles were confiscated from the ambushes and raids launched, aside from ammunition and military equipment seized. The biggest number were 92 rifles confiscated from the PICOP armory in March 2003. Soldiers sympathetic to the revolutionary movement also contributed arms and ammunition, such as those turned over by two soldiers of the Philippine Army 29th IB in Agusan del Sur.

Because of the growth of organized communities, the number of defensive actions involving NPA units has decreased. In cases where Red fighters found themselved in defensive situations, they have been able to maneuver adroitly to defeat far larger enemy formations and prevail even in drawn out encounters such as the one that took place in New Bataan, Compostela Valley on June 30. Twelve high-powered firearms were confiscated and 10 soldiers killed when the NPA seized the initiative from an attacking platoon of the 60th IB.

 


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07 April 2004
English Edition

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