Archive of Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command)

‘The NPA does not target civilians’: Regional NPA command denies bomb threat in Baybay university
March 28, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army-Eastern Visayas today denied NPA involvement in a bomb threat at the Visayas State University campus in Baybay City, Leyte as claimed by the Philippine National Police in a radio news report today, March 28. “The NPA does not target civilians and will never be involved in […]

Samar residents evacuating because of rights violations including election-related violence by AFP troops
March 28, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

“It is the spate of human rights violations and election-related violence by troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that are terrorizing residents of San Jose de Buan, Samar and forcing them to evacuate their communities – not the New People’s Army (NPA),” said Ka Karlos Manuel, spokesperson for the Efren Martires Command of […]

NPA received three M16 rifles, three pistols from detainees who escaped torture and threats of summary execution at the hands of the Calbiga police
March 27, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army-Eastern Visayas announced today that Rowel Mabahin and his brother, who is a minor, surrendered to the NPA immediately after escaping from detention at the police station in Calbiga, Western Samar last March 15. The brothers voluntarily turned over to the NPA three M16 rifles, two .45 […]

On the 93rd IB’s hallucinations over the revolutionary movement in Leyte
February 23, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

Lt. Col. Roberto Beatisula of the 93rd Infantry Battalion makes feverish speculations on the revolutionary movement in Leyte. We bring to light the following facts: 1. The New People’s Army is bound for victory while the Armed Forces of the Philippines is on a losing course as an oppressive instrument of the reactionary ruling system. […]

NPA claims new victories in Western Samar as AFP turns on civilians over losses
January 25, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | NPA-Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) |

The Arnulfo Ortiz Command (AOC) of the New People’s Army-Western Samar today claimed new victories in guerrilla warfare against the Armed Forces of the Philippines and slammed the Duterte regime’s military for venting its losses on innocent civilians. “Last January 21, Red fighters successfully harassed the paramilitary camp of the 52nd IB CAA in San […]

AFP suffered casualties, NPA unharmed in Jan. 11 ambush by the Arnulfo Ortiz Command in Samar
January 19, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army-Eastern Visayas belies the claims of the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army that the NPA suffered heavy casualties in a battle last January 11 at past 4 p.m. in Barangay Bay-ang, San Jorge, Samar. It was in fact the Armed Forces of the Philippines […]

NPA to government contractuals: You are welcome in the people's army
January 17, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  “To the contractual government workers retrenched due to bickering within the ruling system, you are more than welcome in the people’s army,”said Ka Karlos Manuel, spokesperson of the Eastern Visayas Regional Command of the communist-led New People’s Army. Almost 4,000 contractual workers from the regional office 8 of the public works department alone have […]

Response of NPA-Eastern Visayas to 78th IB commanding officer: Local peace talks a narrow-minded, divide-and-rule tactic of a parochial GRP President
January 14, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The NDFP-GRP peace talks cannot be diminished into localized peace talks. The roots of the armed conflict are national issues. In fact, the very soul of the substantive agenda of the GRP-NDFP talks are the socio-economic reforms tackling genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization, which aim to end the country’s chronic economic crisis and backwardness. […]

2 nga taktikal nga opensiba, madinaugon nga nailansar han BHB-Northern Samar ha pagsalin-urog han ika-50 nga anibersaryo han Partido Komunista han Pilipinas!
January 07, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | NPA-Northern Samar (Rodante Urtal Command) | Amado Pesante | Spokesperson |

  Madinaugon nga nailansar an magkasunod nga duha nga taktikal nga opensiba han Rodante Urtal Command. Ini nga taktikal nga opensiba iginhahampak han Bagong Hukbong Bayan-Northern Samar ha rehimen US-Duterte ha iya plano nga pagpuypoy han rebolusyunaryo nga kagiusan sunod nga tuig 2019. Dida han Disyembre 18, banda alas-dose han udto, gin-ambush han mga Pula […]

No civilians hurt in Catarman raid – NPA
December 25, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  The Efren Martires Command (EMC) of the New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas congratulates anew the Rodante Urtal Command (RUC) in Northern Samar for their successful ambush in Catarman last December 18 at around noon. Based on the latest update from the RUC, there were no civilians hurt in the tactical offensive. Instead, eight […]