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NUEVA VIZCAYA MUNICIPAL HALL RAIDED
Seven M16s, two M14s, two 9 mm pistols, one .45 caliber pistol and several communications equipment were confiscated by the New People�s Army (NPA) when it raided the municipal hall of Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya around noon of December 23.
A platoon of Red fighters was able to enter the premises of the municipal hall by playing a ruse. A firefight ensued for a few minutes between the NPA and the five policemen manning the nearby PNP headquarters, killing a policeman and wounding Santa Fe PNP Chief P/Chief Insp. Narciso Paragas.
8 FIREARMS CONFISCATED IN QUEZON RAID
Six M16 rifles and one Llama pistol were confiscated when the NPA raided a police station in the town of Agdangan, Quezon on December 5. Without firing a single shot, the Red fighters were also able to confiscate one VHF radio, one UHF radio and 700 rounds of ammunition of various calibers.
Meanwhile, another NPA team raided the house of a retired soldier situated near the police station and confiscated his .45 caliber pistol. The Red fighters who conducted the raid arrived aboard two dump trucks.
PALAWAN POLICE DETACHMENT RAIDED
The NPA conducted a raid against a PNP detachment in Puerto Princesa, Palawan on the morning of December 26. The Red fighters confiscated one M16 rifle and a 9 mm pistol from the lone policeman manning the detachment.
SERIES OF PUNITIVE ACTIONS LAUNCHED
Four punitive actions were launched by the NPA in Laguna, Mindoro and Tarlac this December.
On December 17 in Laguna, Red fighters punished SPO3 Francisco Garcia, deputy police chief of Mabitac. Garcia was on his way to his farm when ambushed by the NPA.
In Mindoro Occidental, the NPA meted out revolutionary justice on SPO1 Ernesto Dacula last December 13. Dacula was a notorious bodyguard of despotic landlord Ricardo Quintos.
Based on a correspondence report from Kalatas (revolutionary mass paper in Southern Tagalog), P/Sr. Insp. Edison Atienza, former chief of police was also punished in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro. Atienza was punished because of his blood debts against the revolutionary movement, his active participation in military operations against the NPA and for being a protector of illegal activities. Atienza�s most recent crime was the execution of hors d�combat J. Tresvalles (Ka Joker) on August 3.
In Tarlac, Marcelo Guiang was punished in the town of Mayantoc. Guiang was the leader of a holdup syndicate that victimizes travellers passing through the towns of eastern Tarlac.
SOMO VIOLATIONS REPORTED IN CAGAYAN
The revolutionary movement in Cagayan Valley exposed the falsity of the Suspension of Offensive Military Operations or SOMO declared by the Estrada regime that was supposed to have begun on December 9. In a press statement on December 14, Salvador del Pueblo, spokesperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People�s Army and National Democratic Front in Cagayan Valley, stated that combat operations of the 5th Infantry Division that began on November 13, continue.
Currently conducting combat operations are three platoons of the 41st IB in West Baggao- Alcala, Cagayan; two platoons of the 41st IB in Zinundungan Valley, Rizal, Cagayan; five platoons of the 54th IB in the towns of Jones, Echague and San Agustin in Isabela; one platoon of the 5th ID Reconnaisance Coy in Jones, Isabela; two platoons of the 54th IB in Maddela, Quirino; two platoons of the 54th IB in Dupax-Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya; and four platoons of the 45th IB in San Mariano, Isabela.
Del Pueblo also said that part of the operations involved the largescale recruitment and training of CAFGU elements.Meanwhile, del Pueblo condemned the AFP for forcing two captured NPA fighters (Mar �Ka Mar� Rodriguez and JR �Ka CJ� Bulusan) to become guides in enemy operations. Ka Mar and Ka CJ were captured on November 18 in Madadamian, Echague, Isabela. In an open letter for the 5th ID on December 11, Del Pueblo challenged the leadership of the Army Division to recognize the two as prisoners of war, who come under the care and protection of the rules of war and international humanitarian law.
GRP-RPA-ABB AGREEMENT CONDEMNED
The Communist Party of the Philippines in Negros (CPP-Negros) condemned the �peace agreement� between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPAABB).
In a statement, the CPP-Negros said that only the relatives of Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Salvador Benedicto mayor Cynthia dela Cruz and her husband Nehemias and RPA-ABB leaders Arturo Tabara and Nilo dela Cruz would benefit from the agreement. The signing of the agreement on December 10 in the town of Salvador Benedicto, said the CPP-Negros, which was witnessed by Cojuangco and Joseph Estrada was a �grand reunion of warlords and gangsters�.
Cojuangco, Tabara�s patron and who mediated in the forging of the agreement, is a notorious warlord and despotic landlord in Negros, while Tabara and dela Cruz are involved in gangster activities such as bank holdups.
The agreement stipulates that the Estrada regime would supposedly allot P500 million for projects to be specified by Tabara and his clique.
NO CEASEFIRE THIS CHRISTMAS -- CPP
Gregorio �Ka Roger� Rosal, national spokesperson of the CPP, stated that the CPP and NPA will not declare a ceasefire this Christmas in accordance with the decision of the leadership of the two revolutionary organizations. Ka Roger said in a press statement on December 4 that all NPA units were ordered to continue and further intensify tactical offensives against the US-Estrada regime as a response to the widespread clamor of the people to intensify all forms of struggle in order to put an end to the despicable government. Red fighters were also ordered to give special attention to punitive actions against the biggest and worst thieves, plunderers and oppressors of the people.
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