Archive of Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson

RPA-ABB long-standing henchmen of the AFP
November 19, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) is blowing its own trumpet in claiming that the 266 Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Bongcayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) members who graduated from their Community Defense Unit training in Camp Macario Peralta at Jamindan, Capiz last November 5 are an addition to its forces. The AFP is lying anew by […]

Culture of killing inherent in Duterte's fascist-terrorist reign
November 12, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  Simultaneous killings and mass arrests in Negros Island extremely alarms Negrosanons especially after Duterte himself gave Police Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido, current Bacolod City Police Office Deputy Director for Operations, his order to freely kill. AFP, PNP elements and other state forces are granted room to ordinarily kill and cause harm. Anti-people policies, such […]

Kultura sa pagpamatay, duna sa pasista-terorista nga paghari ni Duterte
November 12, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

Tuman nga maka-alarma sa mga Negrosanon ang mga dululungan nga pagpatay kag pagpangdakop sa isla sang Negros ilabi pa nga sang nagligad lang nabatian sa baba mismo ni Duterte ang paghatag larga kay Police Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido ang nagatindog nga Deputy Director for Operation sang Bacolod City Police Office nga hilway ini magpatay. Nagahatag […]

Armed revolution has just become most relevant
October 08, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  The US-Duterte regime is running out of tricks in its desperation to force the New People’s Army (NPA) into cooptation and capitulation. The revolutionary movement in Negros is not taking the bait of localized peace talks. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) is humiliated and BGen. Benedict Arevalo […]

The armed movement in Negros remains ablaze following the deafening rage of the people emanating from the injustices perpetrated by the AFP and PNP
October 01, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  Joint Task Force (JTF) – Negros Commander BGen. Eric Vinoya is daydreaming and floating on the air with his statement aiming to convince red fighters of the NPA to abandon armed struggle and return to the fold of government to receive freedom and various services of the reactionary state. The counter-revolutionary campaign’s desperation in […]

303rd Brigade attempt sabotage of ESCAM commemoration, exhibit present-day de facto martial instead
September 20, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  Remembering Marcos’ martial law and its brutality here in Negros highlighted in the Escalante massacre is highly relevant today because Duterte is a worst dictator and the correctness of engaging in protracted people’s war to counter escalating fascism remains. This according to Ka Juanito Magbanua, spokesperson of Apolinario Gatmaitan Command (AGC), regional command of […]

RPA-ABB perfect example of capitulation and collaboration, must be disbanded and condemned
September 12, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  The surrender of firearms of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Bongcayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) to the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (ID) last September 8 is nothing but a farce. The truth of the matter is this: the RPA-ABB has long been co-opted by the reactionary regime and is being used by Duterte’s minions to glamorize […]

NPA punishes perpetrators of Oplan Sauron in Central Negros
July 28, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

  Last July 18, 2019, 2:30 in the afternoon, a unit of the Mount Cansermon Command of the New People’s Army ambushed four intelligence personnel of the 704th Regional Mobile Force Batallion (RMFB), troops of the Philippine National Police Regional Office 7 (PNP-PRO7), at Sitio Yamot, Barangay Mabato, Ayungon, Negros Oriental. True to its nature, […]

Apolinario Gatmaitan Command on the pressing issues affecting Negros Island
June 04, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

After Duterte’s rigging of the midterm elections this May 2019 in favor of his cronies we expect an increase of the Duterte-style deception, maneuvers and attacks against the people. The revolutionary movement must steel itself to confront and defeat the regime’s attacks from Oplan Kapayapaan to Oplan Kapanatagan and Oplan Sauron. The gimmicks of the […]

NPA offensive against RPA-ABB response to the long time demand of the people for justice
May 08, 2019 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | Juanito Magbanua | Spokesperson |

The Apolinario Gatmaitan Command applauds the Red fighters of New People’s Army (NPA) under the Armando Sumayang Jr. Command for their victorious offensive against members of the mercenary bandit terrorist armed group RPA-ABB around 1:30 this morning at Sitio Mambinay, Barangay Locotan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. The Revolutionary Proletarian Army – Alex Bongcayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) […]