Without any shred of proof, 303rd Brigade commander BGen. Ted Dumosmog, blustered via its online mouthpiece on what he surmised as an alarming trend of “civilian killings” supposedly linked to the NPA.

His overinflated figures of 15 killings turned out to be a hoax, a number of hocus-pocus intended to bamboozle the public into buying the killing spree narrative.

But records bore out that only five individuals, proven as military spies and perpetrators of heinous crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and drug peddling, were punished by Roselyn Jean Pelle Command-New People’s Army (RJPC-NPA) from January to May this year across several Northern Negros towns and cities.

It’s hardly a killing spree by its mere number, frequency and scope. Besides, the said punitive actions were carried out by the NPA in compliance with the order of concerned branches of revolutionary people’s court exercising jurisdiction on these cases.

Thus, Dumosmog’s ranting at the very least is an empty bombast and at most, deception ploy.

Instead of addressing the accuracy of the figure he so ostentatiously flaunt, Dumosmog refused to make the appropriate correction and chose to remain mum on the issue and unleashed its online mouthpiece in a black propaganda campaign to divert the public’s attention from his ineffectuality and deceit.

The said online mouthpiece styled itself as an online “news” organization. But just a cursory review of its Facebook page will reveal a long list of red tagging and military aggrandizement articles and posts. Its journalistic facade is negated by its own action.

It practiced a Trumpian concept of press freedom that centered only on administration/military narrative disregarding the rest. It is akin to the discredited SMNI network of cult leader Quiboloy during Duterte’s administration who attained notoriety in red tagging.

We challenge Dumosmog not to hide behind this online mouthpiece and face the issue.