KABARANGAY

PAMPULITIKANG SABONG

2011-11-20T18:29:00.001+08:00

KAUGNAY sa hangaring kontrolahin ang pampulitikang pamunuan ng bansa, isang malaki at kumplikadong pagsubok ang ginawang pagsuway ni Secretary Leila Delima sa TRO na pinalabas ng Korte Suprema.

Alam ni Delima at mga kasapakat nito ang limitasyon ng batas. Pero pinilit nilang unatin upang masubukan ang templa ng opinyon publiko. Isang tantiyadong pagsubok kung papaano mag-react ang Hudikatura at Lehislatura sa isang parte. Isa rin itong pagsubok upang matantiya ang pwersang sasagupa sa susunod pang mga gagawin ng Administrayong Noynoy Aquino.

Umigting nga ang sitwasyon. Pero katulad ng isang propesyunal na snayper –epektibong natukoy ngayon ng mga “pwersang kumokontrol” ng Malakanyang ang kanilang mga kalaban.

Sa mga pangyayari, malinaw na lumutang ang batayang problema na bumabagabag sa Lipunang Pilipino –ito ang terorismo! Sistematikong pamamaslang ng komunistang CPP-NPA-NDF at MILF-ASG sa mga militar, pulis at sibilyan. Patuloy na pagsabotahe sa ekonomiya ng bansa upang maging malala ang kahirapan na siyang mitsa ng karagdagang pampulitikang mga bangayan. At sa legal na bahagi, ang lantarang paglapastangan sa Konstitusyon ng Republika sa pamamagitan ng hayagang pagyurak sa desisyon ng Korte Suprema.

Epektibong nabaling ng kalkuladong pagsubok ni Leila Delima ang mga nagbabagang usapin. Natabunan ang hinaing ng hustisya para sa 19 na sundalong pinaslang sa Basilan. Natabunan din ang pagbigay ni P-Noy ng P5milyon sa MILF at P31milyon sa RPA-ABB. Lalong hindi na rin napansin ang ibinubulgar na pagposisyon ng mga komunista sa loob ng Malakanyang at iba pang tanggapan ng pamahalaan. Parang nabale-wala na rin sa publiko ang walang kwentang peace talk sa pagitan ng Gobyerno at mga rebelde.

Ang bumalandra ngayon ay ang umaatikabong banatan sa media at social networks (sa internet) ng dilawang pwersa ni P-Noy at maka-Gloria Arroyo na mga elemento. Dalubhasang nakambyo ng kalkuladong pagsubok ni Leila Delima ang mga usapin na isa lamang bangayan ng mga magkaka-tunggali sa pulitika!

Ang pagkasa ng impeachment complaint laban kay P-Noy ay isang napakatarik na alternatibo. Labanan ito ng numero ng mga magkakampi sa Kongreso. Maliban d’yan, nangangamoy na ang halalan sa 2012 at karamihan sa mga Congressman ay nag-aalinlangan sa takot na maipit ang kanilang priority developments funds (PDAF).

Subalit, ang nagkaligtaan matantya ng kasalukuyang naninirahan sa Malakanyang ay kung ano kalalim ang ugat ng relasyon na napundar ni GMA sa AFP/PNP sa siyam na taon nitong panunungkulan bilang Presidente. Ano ang kahinatnan ng pagkahati ng opinyon ng mga Senador? Wala ngang hayagang nagma-martsa sa kalye laban sa tyopeng sabong ng Administrasyong P-Noy malawakan at malalim naman ang pagkalat ng mga impormasyon upang mamuo ang tunay na diwa laban sa terorismo at para sa responsableng pamumuno.

Sa lahat nang ito, isa lang ang nasisigurado ko –humahagalpak sa tuwa ang teroristang CPP-NPA-NDF at mga legal na prente nito kasama ang MILF-ASG! Ang anumang seryosong kampanya kontra sa Administrasyong P-Noy ay medaling markahan na “binayaran ni Gloria Arroyo”.

Kung pabayaan naman itong mga kapalpakan ng Administrasyon, sigurado – gigising tayo balang araw na mga komunistang terorista na ang may kontrol sa pampulitikang kapangyarihan ng bansa. (email: kadre_porras@yahoo.com url: www.kadreporras.blogspot.com)

PEACETALK: TSOKOLATENG LIPOS NG KAMANDAG

2011-09-24T22:47:00.000+08:00

Usapang pangkapayaan. Peace talk. Mga katagang parang musika pangkaunlaran sa pandinig. Ngunit may pag-asa ba na makamtan ang tunay na kapayapaan tungo sa pagbangon nitong nabulid na sa kahirapan nating bansa sa pag-uusap ng Pamahalaan at CPP-NPA-NDF?

Noong inumpisahan ni Pangulong Cory Aquino ang pakipagdayalogo sa mga komunista bilang bahagi ng kanyang government of peace and reconciliation, tahasang ideneklara ni Luis Jalandoni (Chief Negotiator ng NDF) na ang “…peacetalk is another form of legal struggle that must be utilized to advance the national democratic revolution….”

Nagpalit ang ilang mga Administrasyon hanggang muling naluklok ang isang Aquino muli sa Malakanyang, ganun pa rin ang linyang sinusulong ng CPP-NPA-NDF. At mas kumplikado sapagkat “pumayag” ang mga negosyador ng gobyerno na makipag-usap sa mga komunistang rebelde kahit walang DDR!

Ayon sa United Nations (UN) batay sa karanasan ng mga bansang kasapi nito, ang D-D-R ay disarmament, demobilization at reintegration. Maging matagumpay lamang ang peace talks kung ang mga rebelde ay handang magbaba ng armas upang obhetibo na mapag-usapan ang mga rekisitos tungo sa kapayapaan. Kaagapay dito ang pagtigil ng mga pangangatake at sa tamang proseso at koordinasyon sa gobyerno ang paglatag ng tamang infrastructures upang responsableng makabalik sa mainstream ng lipunan ang mga insurektos.

Subalit, balintuna sa inaasahan - ang Government of the Philippines (GPH) panel sa pamumuno ni Atty. Alex Padilla ay pumayag na manatiling armado ang NPA habang nakikipag-usap! At para malusaw ang mga pambabatikos dahil merong patakaran na “no negotiations with the terrorists” nagawan nang paraan na opisyal nang matanggal ang katawagang terorista sa CPP-NPA-NDF.

Kahit pa man sa mga development na ito, wala pa ring humpay ang armadong pananalakay ng NPA: pag-ambush sa mga sundalo at pulis; pamamaslang sa mga CAFGU at sibilyan; pang-kidnap; pangongolekta ng revolutionary taxations at panununog ng mga taxi, truck at construction equipments sa mga hindi tumalima sa ekstorsyon ng mga rebelde.

Patuloy din ang pagsampa ng CPP-NPA-NDF sa Gobyerno ng mga demands na “palayain” ang mga kasamahan nilang “political prisoners” kahit ang mga ito ay may criminal na mga kaso sa korte. Ayon sa mga komunista, marami sa mga nakukulong na ito ang bahagi ng kanilang negotiating panel bilang consultants at nakalista di-umano sa listahang nakatago sa Netherlands.

Pero noong binuksan ang pinagmamalaking “listahan saved on a diskette” ang lumabas ay machine language and jargons na kahit sino man sa panel ng CPP-NPA-NDF ay walang makaunawa!

Mabilis namang nagpalusot ang mga komunista na “nagkalabu-labo” lang daw ang files kaya bigyan pa sila ng sapat na panahon upang ma-decipher ang laman ng diskette.

Nitong huli, mukhang nagulantang (kuno) mula sa panaginip-habang-gising ang GPH panel na niluluko lamang sila ng CPP-NPA-NDF. Maari daw maantala ang peacetalks dahil sa impossible demands ng mga komunista habang walang humpay sa paglunsad ng mga teroristang gawain.

HABANG inaantabayanan ang open pronouncements hinggil sa developments na ito, sumisingaw naman ang sinyales na may under the table na mga aregluhang nagaganap.

TOTOO BA NA NAKAHANDA NA ANG MGA ISKEMA SA PAGLATAG NG COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH THE CPP-NPA-NDF? Ayon sa mga “usok” may ilang mga elemento mula sa rightist organizations na kasabwat sa balaking ito. The most “un-holy alliance” ba? Gaano ka-totoo na labas-masok sa Palasyo ng Malakanyang ang dalawang kilalang ‘legal personalities’ ng mga komunistang-terorista?

Itong mga paghahabol sa mga korap na kumakulapol sa lahat na media outlets (kasama na dyan ang mga haw shao) ay decoy lang ba sa mas malagim na pakipag-kwalisyon sa mga komunista?

Ano man ang posibleng senaryong magaganap, dapat ang mamamayang nagmamahal para sa progresibo, responsible at organisadong demokrasya ay maging mapagmatyag upang hindi nila maisalaksak sa lalamunan ng republikang ito ang tsokolateng lipos ng kamandag!

KATUPARAN NG PANLILINLANG, DAGDAG NA KAHIRAPAN!

2011-09-24T22:36:00.003+08:00

Ang nakapang-ugat nang panlilinlang ay mahirap ng bakbakin. Minsan ang katotohanan, ang siya pang lumalabas na tsismis at ang makulay na mga lubid ng kasinungalingan ang nangingibabaw. Sa maniobrang ito dalubhasa ang mga komunistang-terorista. 42-taon na itong ginagawa ng CPP-NPA-NDF at patuloy pang yumayabong sa maselang panlipunang istruktura ng bansa.

Naglalaway ang mga komunistang-terorista na maagaw ang pampulitikang kapangyarihan. Nanggigigil na ang mga kampon ni Jose Ma. Sison na maitatag ang “pambansang kwalisyon na gobyerno” na pangungunahan ng Communist Party of the Philipines.

Pero hindi ito sa biglaang proseso. Kaya naging strategy nila ang protracted people’s war. Sa pamamagitan ng gerilyang pakikipagdigma sa Pamahalaan epektibong nasabotahe ng CPP-NPA-NDF ang pang-ekonomiyang gulugod ng bansa. Napahina ang produksyon ng pagkain sa kanayunan. Maraming mga investor ang umalis sa Pilipinas dahil sa matinding revolutionary taxations ng mga terorista.

Gamit ang legal na anyo ng pakikibaka, inorganisa ng Revolutionary Trade Union (RTU ng CPP) na ang hayag na mukha nito ay ang Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) ang mga manggagawa sa mga estratehikong industriya. Puhunan ang workers’ right and welfare –naghain sila ng samu’t saring di makatarungang mga demanda. Resulta: mahigit 3,500 mga kumpanya ang nagsara, milyon-milyong manggagawa ang nawalan ng trabaho!

Kilusang Mambubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) naman ang umo-organisa sa mga magsasaka. Imbes agricultural production, nahatak ang mga mambubukid sa kumplikadong mga rally at mga pampulitikang pagkilos. Resulta: ang Pilipinas na kinikilalang agricultural country kung saan 70% sa kanyang populasyon ay mga mambubukid –nakakaranas na ngayon ng kakulangan sa pagkain!

Ang mga kabataan-estudyante na itinuturing “pag-asa ng bayan” ay prayoridad ngayon sa political organizing ng mga terorista. Sentralisadong ginagabayan ito ng Kabataang Makabayan (KM) na ang legal na mukha ay ang LFS, SAMASA, CEGP at kung anu-ano pang student organizations. Imbes pag-aaral para sa kinabukasan –binababad ng mga kabataan sa mga pampulitikang pagkilos hanggang mahikayat na ang mga ito na tumungo sa kanayunan upang umanib sa NPA para isulong ang armadong rebolusyon.

Bunga ng mga nabanggit, mula 1968 taon na itinatag ang CPP hanggang maagang bahagi ng 1980s mahigit $1.7 trilyon ang nawala sa ekonomiya ng bansa. Inamin din ng National Security Council (NSC) na halos 2% ng taunang Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ang nalulusaw dahil sa insurgency.

Lahat ng mga ito ay nagdulot ng matinding kahirapan sa bansa. Lahat ito ay epekto ng terorismo. At ito rin ang mga usaping ginagamit laban sa Gobyerno. NGUNIT ANG MGA KAGANAPAN KUNG BAKIT LUMALALA ANG KAHIRAPAN AY HINDI NAPAG-USAPAN SA MAINSTREAM MEDIA. Dahil siguro takot ang mga Editor kung hindi man impluwensyado na ang kanilang mga pananaw, o pwede ring kasabwat na sila sa pagpalaganap nitong makamandag na panlilinlang ng mga komunistang-terorista!

SINTONADONG WANG-WANG

2011-07-29T21:11:00.000+08:00

SAMU’T SARING mga reaksyon ang lumutang sa 53 minutos na State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Pangulong Noynoy Aquino.

Kahit na midyo inantok din ako sa pakikinig habang nagsasalita si P-Noy sa pinagsanib na sesyon ng Kongreso, ilang beses ko pa rin itong pinanood sa Youtube. Ang tanging mabigat na marka ng kanyang SONA ay ang “wang-wang attitude”.

Alam naman natin lahat kung ano ang wang-wang. Malakas na sirena ng ambulansya, bombero, sasakyan ng pulis o awtoridad na pinapayagang gumamit nito.

Tuwing makakarinig ka ng wang-wang, ang nasa-isip mo agad ay merong emergency or sunog pero kalimitan lalo na kung galing sa patrol car ng pulis –may mayabang na dadaan! Hindi mo rin masisisi ang ordinaryong tao na mag-iisip nito dahil hanggang sa ngayon may mga tarantado pang mga pulis na kahit walang-sitwasyon gumagamit pa rin ng sirena lamang makalusot sa traffic para mabilis makakarating tungo sa pagkukunan ng delihensya!

AYON SA ilang mambabatas “the speech of P-Noy is only a repetition of his 2010 SONA.” Walang inilahad na kumprehensibong plano para sa kaunlaran ng bansa.

Tama na ang mga korapsyon ng nakaraang Administrasyon ni Gloria Arroyo ay dapat busisiin. Pero bakit tikum ang bibig ni P-Noy sa mga kabulastugang nangyayari ngayon sa Bureau of Customs na siyang ini-imbestigahan ng committee nila Congresswoman Mitos Magsaysay?

Wala ring sinabi si P-Noy hinggil sa talamak na illegal numbers game (jueteng) at illegal drugs. Bakit?

Ang masaklap, WALANG REPORT ang Pangulo kung ano na ang progreso ng pakikipag-usap ng Gobyerno at CPP-NPA-NDF at MILF/MNLF para makamtan na nang bansang ito ang kapayapaan.

May mga tinatakpan ba na usapin? Hindi ba ito nakikita ni Secretary Columa na ayon sa mga impormasyon siya ang gumawa ng final draft ng speech ni P-Noy?

Sa tingin ko may sintonadong ‘wang-wang’ na dapat pihitin.

Ayon sa United Nations (UN) at karanasan ng ibang mga bansa, ang isang peace negotiations ay maging successful lamang kung napaloob sa proseso ang mga ponto ng DDR –disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

Sa kaso ng CPP-NPA-NDF walang disarmament. Mananatili ang kanilang mga armas at sa resumption ng sunod na yugto ng usapan sa Oslo, ang pag-uusapan agad ay ang the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (CASER).

Batay sa mga dokumentong inihain ng mga komunista, ito ang mga gusto nilang mangyari: 1) vetoing foreign capitalist investments in the country; 2) enforcing prohibition against joint-ventures of transnational companies and local capitalists; 3) economic exclusivity or impeding export and import transactions; 4) free land distribution or “Genuine Agrarian Reform”; 5) prohibition against exclusive ownership; and, 6) limiting ownership of land and other State wealth among and between local citizens.

Alam n’yo ba kung ano ang stand ng Alexander A. Padilla, Chairperson ng Government Panel? Halos pag-sang-ayon sa kagustuhan ng mga rebelde!

Pinatunayan ito sa kanyang statement quoted on the January 20, 2011 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer sa kanyang plano na mag-“forge” ng partnership with the NDF in running the country. Nadulas lang kaya si Atty. Padilla? Mis-qouted? Or bahagi na ito ng plano para maitatag ang matagal nang pinaglalawayan na plano ng mga komunista na “coalition government”?

MARAMI ang nagsasabi na “blinded” or “napalambot” si P-Noy hinggil sa communist insurgents dahil sangkatutak na mga makakaliwa ang nakapwesto ngayon sa Malakanyang.

Nakakabahala ang sitwasyong ito. As if na, sinusubo na nang iilang mga kumag sa malansang bunganga ng mga terorista ang ating bansa. Paano uunlad ang Republika ng Pilipinas sa ganitong sitwasyon?

Wala bang umalingawngaw na wang-wang kontra sa reyalidad na ito?

KARAHASAN PARA AGAWIN ANG KAPANGYARIHAN

2011-07-07T20:33:00.000+08:00

Kumalat na parang virus sa lahat na media outlets ang usapin hinggil sa panununtok ni Mayor Inday Sara Duterte kay Shirriff Abe Andres. Pero pahapyaw lamang na nabibigyan ng pansin ang pangangatake ng mga teroristang CPP-NPA-NDF.

Pinasok ng mahigit 20 NPA ang Phelix Mining Company sa Sitio Vista Alegre, Brgy Nabulao, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental. Dinis-armahan ng mga rebelbe ang mga gwardiya, sinunog ang barracks kasama ang isang carrier truck. Ang dahilan: hindi nagbayad ng revolutionary tax ang naturang minahan sa mga komunistang-terorista!

Noong Hunyo 7, 2011 sa terminal ng bus sa Mati, Davao Oriental tinangkang agawin ng mga NPA ang M16 armalite rifle ni PO3 Alfredo Salva. Pero epektibong nakapanlaban ang nabanggit na pulis, isa sa mga suspect (alyas Bunso) ang namatay at ang isa pa ay nasugatan at kinilala ito na si Ariel Manuray. Inamin ni Manuray na sila ay mga kasapi ng NPA. Nasa ospital at pinapagamot pa nga mga otoridad hanggang ngayon ang naturang suspect.

Sa Bayan ng Pamplona, Negros Oriental anim na mga NPA ang nasawi at ilang mga sundalo ang sugatan sa magkakasunod na mga engkwentro. Samantalang sa Omar Hotel, Bacolod City nahuli ng mga militar si Marilyn Badayos isang high ranking officer ng CPP Southeast front sa Negros.

Sa Compostela Valley ang mga tauhan ng 3rd Special Forces Battallion na patungo sa pag-alalay sa mga empleyado ng DENR “to implement the total log ban in the area” inambus ng mga teoristang NPA. Dalawang sundalo ang nasawi at tatlong rebelde ang sugatan.

Marami pang mga indidente ang pwede nating banggitin, mga naganap sa North Cotobato, Agusan del Sur, Ilocus Sur at iba pang mga lugar.

Lahat ito ay mga patunay na patuloy pa ang sistematikong kampanya sa paghasik ng karahasan ng teroristang CPP-NPA-NDF. Dagdag din ito na patunay na ang pagpasok nila sa “peacetalk” ay isa lamang political ploy para isulong ang protracted people’s war sa panibagong yugto!

Noong ika-41 na anibersaryo ng Communist Party of the Philippines magarbong ideklara nang mga terorista na “in five years time its strength and influence will be already at par with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)”. Ito ang tinatawag nilang strategic stalemate – ito ang inaasahang baitang ng mga komunistang terorista kung saan malaya silang makiki-pag-enkwentro sa pwersa ng kasundaluhan at pulis saan mang larangan (sa gusto nilang oras at panahon). Inaasahan din nila, na sa yugtong ito meron nang malawak at nangingibabaw na impluwensya ang komunistang kilusan sa lahat na mga panlipunang usapin.

Nakakabahala ang sitwasyong ito!

Maraming usapin ngayon sa ating lipunan ang lumulutang na sa unang tingin ay mahalaga pero kung masusing pagmuni-munihan, ito ay bahagi lamang nang mas malalaking problema.

Ang kaso ni Mayor Inday Sara D ng Davao City ay dapat imbestigahan to the fullest! Pero huwag nating kaligtaan ang terorismong nanalasa sa lahat na panig ng ating lipunang Pilipino.

Maging mulat tayo sa katotohanan na marami nang mga komunista ang nakapasok sa Gobyerno. Their creeping invasion is a real threat!

Kumilos, habang hindi pa huli ang lahat.

Target: i-knock out ang ekonomiya!

2011-06-27T08:27:00.003+08:00

Mahirap nang matumbasan ang karangalan at lahat na karangyaan sa isang boksengero gaya ni Manny Pacquiao. Hindi lamang pambihirang record ang kanyang accomplishments bagkus ito’y bahagi na ng kasaysayan na patuloy pang umuusad.

Dagdag na pinahanga ako ni Congressman Pacquiao sa kanyang matatag na paninindigan laban sa RH Bill. Isang baguhang mambabatas na ang tanging puhunan ay “boxing title belts” pero matatas na nakipag-debate sa mga beteranong kinatawan gaya ni Congressman Edcel Lagman.

Pero biglang gumuho ang aking pagtingin kay Pacquiao nang ito’y ‘hayagan’ na nagpagamit sa mga militantevat makakaliwang labor organizations sa usapin ng P125-wage increase.

Sang-ayon ako na itaas ang sweldo pero dapat i-akma ito sa tamang konteksto.
Maigting na pang-ekonomiyang krisis ang dinaranas ng ating bansa. Pinalala pa ito ng mga pandaig-digang kaganapan. Pero lalo itong inaagnas ng mga anay na gustong magpabagsak sa ating republika!

Maagang bahagi ng 1970s, kinilala ang Pilipinas bilang “booming tiger economy of Asia”. Pamantay tayo noon sa iba pang umuunlad na bansa. Subalit, ang pagsulong na ito tungo sa pag-unlad ay tahasang naudlot sa pagkatatag ng maoistang CPP-NPA.

Pinakita ng mga pag-aaral, na sa maagang bahagi pa lamang ng 1980s mahigit na 4,000 mga kumpanya at negosyo ang sumara dahil sa welga ng mga militanteng unyon. Dahil din dito, mahigit 1.7 trillion dollars ang nawala sa ating ekonomiya “direct and consequential investments”. Sa panahong nabanggit, inamin ng National Security Council na “2% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP)” ang nalulusaw dahil sa insurgency problem.

Resulta: milyon-milyon na mga Pilipino ang nawalan ng trabaho!

Sa kanayunan, hindi makakausad ang mga development projects dahil sa revolutionary taxation o ekstoryon ng mga teroristang NPA. Karamihan ngayon ng mga apektado ay damagsa sa mga urban centers (Manila, Cebu, Davao at iba pang mga lungsod) sa pag-asa na makahanap ng trabaho. Subalit – balintuna sa inaasahan, naging dagdag lamang sila sa bilang ng mga un-employed, under-employed, dagdag na iskwater at dagdag na kumplikasyon sa halos sasabog na, na lobo ng mga panlipunang suliranin!

Ang “pagbaha” ng mga unemployed at under-employed ang siyang dahilan sa paglaganap ng murang labor force. Ang dahilan: malinaw pa sa sikat ng haring araw ---TERORISMO!

Kaya, ang usapin sa pagpapataas ng sahod ay hindi mabibigyan ng sustainable solution sa pamamagitan ng paghihiyaw ng “P125 wage increase”! Habang ginagawan ng kaparaanan ang usaping ito, dapat tutukan ang pag-resolba sa pinakamatagal nang insurhensiya (42 taon) sa ating bansa.

Matoto sa mga aral ng kasaysayan, hindi na sasakay lamang sa mga maiinit na isyu upang “sumikat” pero tameme sa katotohanang ginagamit lamang kayo ng mga mapanlinlang na pwersang gustong i-knock-out ang ekonomiya upang tahasang masisira ang ating Republika! (kadre_porras@yahoo.com)

39IBs thrust for the Greening Program

2011-06-16T22:21:00.001+08:00

More or less 6,500 trees were planted in a 13-hectare land at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, Davao del Sur during the Provincial launching of the National Greening Program (NGP) last Friday, May 27, 2011. The activity was participated by ninety-seven (97) different government agencies including the 39th Infantry Battalion, religious, academe, private and business sectors from Davao del Sur.

The launching was spearheaded by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Region XI. It was highlighted by the ceremonial planting of trees within the three (3) designated planting sites located at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, Davao del Sur by no less than Cong. Marc Douglas Cagas IV and the different heads of office. Every participant was given atleast ten (10) rubber seedlings, among others, to be planted. It was followed by a short program were words of commitment from collaborators were heard.

“Dinhi sa Davao del Sur, dako-dako ang target for this year muabot sa 1,944 hectares, ug ang pinakadako ini mao ang atong Mt. Apo nga adunay 1,000 hectares na marked for development this year”, according to Mr. Glenn Adonis M. Rico, PENR officer. “All sectors of society ania karon dinhi kay ang counterpart sa katawhan mao ang pagpananum”, he added.

Inorder to further contribute in the greening effort and in accordance to the Eastern Mindanao Command directive, the 39th Infantry Battalion will establish its camp nursery. This nursery will keep and protect seedlings for the future tree planting activities of the battalion. Furthermore, a camp environmental officer will also be designated to ensure that the implementation of the project will be supervised and monitored. He will also be responsible for the wider dissemination of the greening program within the line companies. This way, the greening efforts will be brought even to far-flung barangays where most of the troops are stationed.

The 39th Infantry Battalion led by LtC Oliver R Artuz urges everybody to support the National Greening Program. He assured the battalions’ commitment to help in the protection and rehabilitation of the environment as he enjoined his elements to become active in the greening program. LtC Artuz is optimistic that through the collaborative efforts of everyone, we can contribute to a healthy and safe environment for the present and the next generations to come.

The National Greening Program, consolidates and harmonizes all greening efforts such as Upland Development Program, Luntiang Pilipinas, and similar initiatives of the government, civil society and the private sector. It is expounded under Executive Order 26 where it became one of the priority thrusts of the present administration to attain sustainable development for poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. This program targets to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares in community-based forest areas, protected areas, ancestral domains and other suitable lands such as schools, military reservations and urban areas for a period of six years starting 2011 until 2016.

2 soldiers injured in clash with Bandits in Davao Oriental

2011-05-30T10:09:00.002+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City - Two soldiers were wounded following a brief encounter between government troops of 67th Infantry Battalion and Communist Terrorists New People’s Army (NPA) in Sitio Caningag, Barangay Cabasagan, Boston, Davao Oriental on Saturday at about 4:50 in the aftrnoon.

“The troops were on patrol responding to the civilian complaints of the presence of armed bandits roaming around their place when the armed bandits fired upon the troops,” Lt Col Lyndon Paniza said. “These groups of bandit NPAs are the same group responsible in murdering innocent civilians. Last December 2009 an old woman identified as Mrs. Rosalinda Clata, 55 years old and a 13 year-old girl, Memilyn Moreno was also murdered by the NPAs last February 13 2010,”Paniza added.

According to Lt Col Ruben Basiao, Commander of 67th Infantry Battalion, these armed bandits also are the ones roaming around the province of Davao Oriental, and some parts of Monkayo, ComVal Province, not only to harass the military and police camps but also to conduct extensively their extortion activities to small and big business companies, arson of road construction equipments and privately owned trucks last 2009 and 2010.

“We will continue to seize these bandits who were keeping on their atrocities to destroy peace and development efforts in the area because the civilians do not want bandits and criminals in their communities,” Lt Col Ruben Basiao said.

The 30-minute exchange of fire resulted to 2 soldiers slightly injured, treated immediately by the troop’s first aiders. The two are now in Camp Panacan Station Hospital for their recovery.

Heavy Clashes in Davao Oriental; 5 High Powered Firearms Recovered, 5 Wounded

2011-05-30T10:02:00.000+08:00

CATEEL, Davao Oriental---Government troops clashed with an illegal armed group believed to be members of the New People’s Army in two separate encounters over the weekend in Davao Oriental.

On Saturday at 5 p.m., troops of 67th Infantry Battalion, 10th Infantry Division, clashed with the NPAs at Sitio Caningag, Barangay Cabasagan, Boston, Davao Oriental. The encounter lasted for 30 minutes that resulted to the wounding of two soldiers.

According to Colonel Ruben Basiao, Commanding Officer of 67IB, “the Communities’ trust and confidence with the government troops led them to report to the authorities. The massive peace and development efforts through consultation and collaboration with the Local Government Units (LGU) and various communities have been jointly implemented purposely to increase the quality of life of the civilians.”

The two military wounded soldiers are currently receiving medical attention in the military hospital at Camp Panacan, Davao City.

Another 4-hour encounter happened on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in Sitio Carampel, Barangay Aliwagwag, Cateel, Davao Oriental. “Complaints from the civilians of the presence of heavily armed men harrasing the community prompted the troops of 6th Scout Ranger Company of 2nd Scout Ranger Battalion to launch a patrol that led to the heavy firefight against the New People’s Army (NPA), says Lt Col. Gilbert F. Saret, Commanding Officer of the 25th Infantry Battalion of 10th Infantry Division.

As a result of the firefight, recovered were five high powered firearms (HPFAs), improvised landmines, components of explosives, subversive documents, and personal belongings of the NPAs. Three soldiers were wounded while undetermined number of casualties from the NPAs.

The identities of the wounded are being withheld pending the notification of their relatives. Likewise, unconfirmed reports from local residents says that there are at least two NPAs killed during the encounter.

“The reports from the populace is an indicator of their resistance to the criminal acts perpetrated by the NPAs. This led to the series of encounters that prevented the NPAs to plan for the future conduct of atrocities. We thank the government officials and the populace who are determined to pursue genuine peace and development by taking a stand to secure the province from the threat of criminal actions by the NPAs”, said Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, 10th Infantry Division spokesperson.

Lt. Col. Paniza added, “If the NPAs’ intent to commit atrocities was not pre-empted, it could have caused an atmosphere of fear not only to the residents but also to the business sector that are interrested to invest in the area.”

Last week, the NPAs have burned one passenger bus and an elf truck in Sta Cruz, Davao Del Sur and Banay-banay, Davao Oriental, respectively.

“The Armed Forces of the Philippines particularly the 10th Infantry Division, Philippine Army has been genuine in its effort for the implementation of the rules of law, rules of engagement (ROE), International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) especially that peace talk is ongoing. However, these NPAs are continuously and are insisting to defy the peace process. It only shows that the CPP has no control over their illegal armed elements that victimize soft civilian targets,” Paniza said.

Hot pursuit operations by the army and the Philipine National Police (PNP) are still ongoing as of this report.

More help for Pantukan Victims

2011-04-27T08:24:00.000+08:00

As President Noynoy Aquino extends his condolences to the families of victims in the massive landslide in Barangay King-king, Pantukan, Compostela Valley Province, joint efforts both from the national and local government and stakeholders became evident.

In a press conference on Monday, April 25, 2011, National Defense Secretary Voltaire T Gazmin , Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje, ComVal Province Governor Arturo Uy, Pantukan Mayor Celso Sarenas, Commander of Eastern Mindanao Command Lt Gen Artur Tabaquero, 10th Infantry Division Commander MGen Jorge Segovia and 1001st Brigade Commander Col Roberto Domines converge to talk about the recent updates in the retrieval operations and the forced evacuation.

According to Sec. Paje, they were sent by the president to personally verify the situation in the area.

“The president wants to know on how to comprehensively handle the situation”, Paje added. He made sure that the residents will be relocated to ensure their safety especially after the discovery of a 70-meter fissure that could possibly result to another tragedy if rainfalls continue.

Governor Arturo Uy elucidates that he will impose no habitation in the area for the other portion of the mountain may collapse anytime.

“We will continue in searching for the other missing persons. We will not stop unless we find all the victims who might have been buried in mud”, Mayor Celso Sarenas said.

Lt Gen Tabaquero said that they will continue their efforts in assisting the agencies to continue the search and retrieval operations. “Until you need our help, we will help”, he assured.

Sec. Gazmin was pleased with the cooperation among agencies both from the national and local government. “All agencies were involved in helping together for this mission and not just the concerned agencies”, he added.

Locals flooded the area as they also want to extend help in the search and retrieval operations. Although this would hasten the operation, the local government forcibly wants them to evacuate immediately for their own safety.
Meanwhile, MGen Jorge Segovia said that insurgency has been a detriment for the small-scale miners forcing them to rely in mining despite danger just to alleviate their living. He also added that insurgency is formed in mining thru extortion which has been affecting the miners.

“There are NPA units in Pantukan of which three barangays were affected already by them”, Segovia said who was also present in the conference. He added that they will determine this to properly address the matter.

“We will strengthen our Peace and Development Outreach Program to this area as part of our program in winning peace”, he ended.

“WILLING WILLIE”: biktima ng paghihiganti at mapanlinlang na propaganda?

2011-04-17T09:28:00.004+08:00

WALA sa hinagap ko ang magsulat hinggil sa mga dramang sumasalikup sa mapagkunwaring entablado ng showbiz.

Na-obliga lamang akong sumulat, sapagkat halatadong ginagamit lamang na isyu itong di-umano “child abuse” sa isang batang nagnga-ngalang JAN-JAN SUAN na nag-macho dance sa programang ‘Willing Willie’ over Channel 5 noong March 12, 2011 episode.

Ang anumang anyo ng paglabag sa batas, lalo na ang “child abuse” na isang mabigat na kaso ay hindi mapapatunayan sa pamamagitan ng makabag-bag damdamin na opinyon publiko. Ito ay hinu-husgahan ng korte!

Pero wala pa man sa hurisdiksyon ng anumang Korte, meron nang konklusyon at maigting na kondemnasyon ang mga nag-aakusa.

Moral na obligasyon at legal na responsabilidad ng lahat na pangangalagaan ang dangal at kinabukasan ng mga kabataan. Sabi nga ni Doktor Jose P. Rizal, “ang kabataan ay pag-asa ng bayan!”

Subalit, ang obligasyon at responsabilidad na ito ay HINDI DAPAT SELECTIVE. Dapat hindi ito naka-angkla sa mapanirang hidwaan ng mga TV networks na nag-aagawan sa atensyon ng television viewers and advertisers.

Higit sa lahat, ang pagsulong ng kawsa upang pangalagaan ang kapakanan ng mga kabataan ay hindi nakabatay sa opinyon ng mga “Ponso Pilato” na magaling lamang maghugas ng kanilang mga kamay sa publiko (para lumabas na mga champeons) pero mga kasapakat pala ng mapanlinlang at teroristang mga grupo.

Malinaw na binanggit ni UN Special Rapporteur for Children in Armed Conflict (CIAC), Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy na ang “NPA rebels are constant violators of children’s rights.”

TANONG: pinakialaman ba ng mga concerns sa “kapakanan” ni Jan-jan Suan ang mga kaso na ito? Nakaka-binging katahimikan ang kanilang aksyon. Bakit? Bakit?

Noong Oktubre 2010, si Col Antonio Parlade pa noon ang Philippine Army spokesman, kanilang inihayag na mula 1999 hanggang 2010, ang komunistang NPA ay pwersahang nakapag-recruit ng 340 na mga menor-de-edad. Sa kabuuang bilang, 209 ang nag-surender, 119 ang nahuli, at 12 ang namatay sa engkwentro sa mga sundalo ng Pamahalaan.

Ang pag-rekruta ng mga kabataan –menor-de-edad man o mga estudyante, ay bahagi ng protracted people’s war o pangmatagalang digmaan bayan na estratehiya ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF. Bahagi ito ng pagsabotahe ng ekonomiya ng ating bansa upang lalong lumaganap ang kahirapan!

Nilalasing ng mga komunistang-terorista ang mga kabataan-estudyante sa baluktot na pamamaraan ng pagbabago –yan ang pagtahak sa armadong digmaan o rebolusyon. Ang mga kabataan na “sana’y pag-asa ng ating kinabukasan” ay hindi na makapag-atupag ng pag-aaral o anumang produktibong gawain dahil nalulong na sa mga rally at demonstrasyon hanggang tahasang umaanib sa teroristang NPA.

Balikan ko ngayon ang katanungan: bakit ang reyalidad na ito ay hindi kinokondena ng “kuno mga champeons sa kawsa ng kabataan”? Dahil ba hindi nakikita sa telebisyon kung papaano nililinlang ng mga komunistang-terorista ang mga biktima?

Para mapangalagaan ang mga kabataan, at ang marami pang mga Jan-jan Suan, kinakailangang magkaisa tayo laban sa terorismo. Isabuhay natin ang tunay na diwa ng isang progresibo, responsable at organisadong demokrasya!

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THE CPP-NPA-NDF CENTER OF GRAVITY (COG) IN WHITE AREA Based on the SOT-WA Operations at NCR Experience

2011-04-13T19:56:00.003+08:00

THE CPP-NPA-NDF CENTER OF GRAVITY (COG) IN WHITE AREA
Based on the SOT-WA Operations at NCR Experience

by:Cpt Mario Jose M Chico (QMS) PA

Thrust the Dagger Straight to the Dragon’s Heart

In every fantasy movies featuring monstrous dragons as villain, it is but necessary for the hero to strike the sword to the heart of the dragon to kill the menace. For the very reason that in its heart, is where its strength emanates, and once fatally hit, will cause its demise. Hence, in order to put an end to a known enemy, we must be able to locate its heart, its Center of Gravity, and to thrust the dagger to annihilate the dreaded monster.

Militarily, the Center of Gravity (COG) refers to “the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.”[i] It was said that the loss of a center of gravity will ultimately results in defeat. It is therefore a must to identify the COG of the enemy to come up with a precise target where efforts and resources will be focused to achieve the end objective of neutralizing the enemy.

For four decades now, the AFP had launched numerous campaign plans but all failed to end the four decade old insurgency. One glaring fact is that, although we have been hitting the enemy, we failed to hit him where he will suffer the most and will cause his downfall. Hence, there is a need for us to ascertain the center of gravity of the enemy in order for us to craft a campaign strategy that will enable us to ‘thrust our dagger’ and give the enemy the fatal blow.

The SOT-WA Background and Lessons Learned

Prior to the conduct of SOT-WA in the NCR in 2006, we have seen a steady increasing numbers of attendees from various sectoral organizations to anti-government protest actions/mobilizations initiated by the CTM front organizations. This had made us adopt a sense of appreciation that the CTM, through their front organizations, has already gained a stronghold of the different sectoral organizations at the NCR.

However, our experience in the conduct of SOT-WA in the NCR reveals the reality that the grip of the CTM front organizations to the urban poor organizations is not as strong as we have perceived to be. After a series of SOT-WA operations at selected urban poor communities where most of the attendees of CTM initiated protest actions, a continuing decline of attendees to anti-government protest actions/mobilizations by CTM front organizations were noted. Notwithstanding the presence of gargantuan societal issues (ZTE Deal, Fertilizer, etc..), still the CTM failed to mobilize a critical mass to oust the Arroyo administration unlike what they have achieved during the EDSA II. Likewise, we have able to discover that a majority of those who are joining CTM front organization-led mobilizations were being paid for their attendance. Hence, it can be deduced that only a minority from these group joined such mobilizations due to ideological belief.

A deeper scrutiny of the CTM front organizations’ mobilizations reveals the active involvement of the students/youth sector. The following were some of the prominent information observed during CTM initiated mobilizations:

1. There has been no single CTM front organization-initiated mobilization in the NCR conducted without the involvement from the members of Student/Youth Sector (S/YS) whether the issue raised was about land reform, labor concerns, urban poor, human rights, etc.
2. Part of the CTM Recruitment Scheme in the S/YS is the ‘immersion’ phase of their recruits to urban poor communities and workers via what they called ‘Serve The People (STP) teams. These STP teams serve as the CTM machinery operating in the urban poor areas tasked conduct AOM effort.[ii]
3. Exposure to the Countryside (CS) of S/YS recruits from the WA. Undeniably, although we failed to account the actual numbers, the S/YS had been, and still is, the biggest contributor of quality cadres in the Red Area. They play multi-roles that contribute to the eventual growth of the NPA regulars in the RAs. As Joma Sison pointed out, “Alam ko na papalaki ang bilang ng mga kabataan na tumutungo sa kanayunan upang sumapi sa hukbong bayan at gumapan ng gawain sa hanay ng masang magsasaka. Sila ay lumalahok sa iba’t ibang gawain sa hukbong bayan, tulad ng gawain sa edukasyon at kultura, produksyon at pagsasanay militar. Sila ay naglulunsad ng panlipunang pagsisiyasat at gawaing masa. Tumutulong sila sa pagtatayo ng mga organo ng kapangyarihang pampulitika at mga organisasyong masa at nagsusulong ng reporma sa lupa at iba pang kampanyang masa.”[iii]

Center of Gravity as Source of Strength

In the Red Area, the CTM’s Guerilla Fronts establish Guerilla Bases (GB) where they perform their strategic task of preserving and developing their forces in preparation for the General Offensive. It is also where the Center of Gravity (COG) of that particular Guerilla Front is located. In these areas, CTM has been utilizing their operational methodology of Indoctrinalization-Politicalization-Organization (IPO) works. While we have already developed a set of parameters in order to ascertain the COG in the Red Area that we have been using in our planning for clearing of GFs, we still have not come up with a definitive guide to pin point the COG of the CTM in the White Area.

The parameters set in identifying COG in the RA cannot be applied to identify the COG in the WA basically due to the fact that in the WA, CTM adopts the Arouse-Organize-Mobilize (AOM) methodology among the broad masses implemented by their front organizations in order to achieve a critical mass they need to launch the General Uprising that will complement the General Offensive coming from the Red Area. As Joma Sison a.k.a. Amado Guererro said: “We should excel in combining legal, illegal and semi-legal activities through a widespread and stable underground. A revolutionary underground developing beneath democratic and legal or semi-legal activities should promote the well-rounded growth of the revolutionary forces, serve to link otherwise isolated parts of the Party and the people's army at every level and prepare the ground for popular uprisings in the future and for the advance of the people's army”[iv].

Relatedly, this AOM methodology does not conform to ‘territorial boundaries’ but rather by the sectoral organizations they infiltrate and influence. Analyzing their TTPs in the WA, we can deduce that;

A + O = M

Wherein the effectiveness of their ‘A’ (Arouse) and ‘O’ (Organize) efforts can be measured by the number of people they were able to ‘M’ (Mobilize) during mass actions or protest actions against the government.

The question now is where does the CTM derive their moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act in their AOM effort in the WA?

Armed Struggle and Legal Struggle

“Insurgencies are revolutionary wars that are won or lost based on who wins the support of the local population”.[v] Likewise, Mao Zedong told, “Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better.”[vi] The CTM acknowledges the importance of these idioms the very main reason why they are devoting more time and effort on IPO works than conducting tactical offensives in the Red Area.

The same is true in the White Area as the CTM also stressed the fact that they are waging two classes of struggle as part of their tactics to defeat the government; the Armed Struggle (AS) and the Legal Struggle (LS), with the latter as the primary means of struggle. In one of Jose Maria Sison’s writings published in one of the edition of PRAXIS (Theoretical Journal of LFS), he said that: “Papel ng ligal na porma ng pakikibaka sa mga sentrong urban – Bagamat prinsipal at mapagpasyang porma ang armadong pakikibaka para durugin ang kapangyarihang pampulitika ng mga nagsasamantala at para itatag ang bagong demokratikong kapangyarihan ng manggagawa at magsasaka, hindi ito ang tanging porma ng paglaban. Ang mahusay na pagsasalimbayan ng armado at ligal na porma ng pakikibaka ay lahatangpanig nagsusulong ng rebolusyonaryong tunguhin”.[vii]

Understanding the Role of the Student/Youth Sector in the Philippine Insurgency

Historically, the birth of the CPP from the old merger of CP-SP party was greatly attributed to the contribution of the Student/Youth Sector that have initiated the mass protest actions. “The single event that broke the long period of reaction and began to inspire the resurgence of the mass movement was the demonstration of 5000 students, mostly from the state university, to oppose and stop the anti-communist witch-hunt in 1961”.[viii] From then on, we have witnessed the active involvement of the Filipino youth in the CTM front organization-initiated mobilizations as well as the influx of young, idealistic, dynamic youth in the long list of NPA cadres in the countryside. At one point, Joma stressed the importance of the Filipino youth, “The students/youth are an important force assisting the proletariat in the spread or revolutionary propaganda on a nationwide scale. The people’s democratic revolution cannot be advanced without the participation of revolutionary intellectuals. It is important to rely on the youth in a protracted revolutionary struggle. The mobilization of the youth ensures the continuous flow of successors in the revolutionary movement”.

The Student/Youth Sector as the CTM’s Center of Gravity in the WA

A closer look at the group of people that attend anti-government demonstrations initiated by CPP-NPA-NDF front organizations reveals that they have two definitive purposes. One is because of financial promise to be given after joining the mobilization in which the majority of these came from the urban poor sector. The other reason was those who joined because of their belief that what they are doing is just, and majority of these came from the student sector.

The Filipino youth sector provides the CTM with bright, energetic, and dedicated cadres that proven efficient to arouse, organize, and mobilize thousands of peasants, workers, and students to go against the government. The CPP-NPA-NDF has managed to achieve an effective system of recruitment in the S/YS that has been going on for decades and continuously supplying young, idealistic, and dynamic cadres to the countryside. This is the very main reason why the CTM remains vibrant despite numerous AFP campaigns and hundreds of soldiers’ lives sacrificed to end this war.

With these as premises, the writer suggests the idea that the CTM’s source of strength in its White Area operations is being derived from the active participation of the members of the young, progressive, and idealistic Filipino youth. They, the Filipino Youth, had been the center of gravity of the CTM in regards to their WA operations. It is the particular sector of our society that if we will be able to win, will cause the eventual downfall of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

We can therefore conclude that, the CPP-NPA-NDF was comparable to an engine that has been running for over four (4) decades now, with the idealistic minds and active lives of the Filipino youth as its fuel. Now is the time to remove the fuel and make the engine conks out from running.

The CPP-NPA-NDF Deceptive Recruitment in the S/YS

The AOM methodology employed by the CPP-NPA-NDF has been successful in agitating the minds of the Filipino youth, and has made joining the armed struggle as the only solution to solve our societal problems. Utilizing the systematic and deceptive mode of recruitment through their front organizations, and capitalizing on societal issues that affects our way of life, the CPP-NPA-NDF has; by far, mobilized thousand of Filipino youth to join their two forms of struggle, the legal and armed struggles. It is also worthy to note that their recruitment have gone down to the level of high school students as evident by the chapters of LFS and ANAKBAYAN being organized in secondary schools not only in NCR but also in other regions. These developments were even praised by Joma Sison saying, “Ako rin ay nagagalak ay inoorganisa na ang LFS sa mga magaaral sa highschool”.[x]

Common to the basic characteristics of the Filipino youth are their being inquisitive and adventurist. The more intellectually challenging and exciting a thing is, the more they try to engage themselves into.

The deceptive recruitment of the CPP-NPA-NDF in the student/youth sector capitalized in challenging the intellect of the students and by providing an environment of secrecy (e.g. giving of code names, telling them not to tell their parents what they are doing for the ‘kilusan’ because their ‘level of awareness’ are not equal, the books they are reading is way above the average students, among others) as they get engage deeper in the organization. Hence, from being a mere student activists recruited by a CPP-NPA-NDF front organization in their university, the poor victim has become a party member of the CPP. A situation that was never discussed to him/her right at the very start that he/she was recruited by the front organization, a situation that he/she never ever dreamed of the very first day he/she has entered the university.

The Challenge: Rechanneling S/YS Activism to Nation Building

“A victory is that plus the permanent isolation of the insurgent from the population, isolation not enforced upon the population but maintained by and with the population.”[xi]

Since we are dealing with youthful idealism, our actions should start at the point in time where we can best achieve positive effects of channeling these idealism the way we envisioned it to be. There are certain ways that we can address the problem that will help eradicate the menace of our society that has been victimizing the Filipino youth since its inception on 1968, the year the CPP was organized by Jose Maria Sison.

To channel S/YS idealism from negativism to positivism is to create a situation that will challenge the intellect and crave for excitement and thrill of the Filipino youth, in order to capture their interest to participate in worthy societal activities.

There is also a need to formulate a systematic and sustaining awareness campaign exposing the evils of the deceptive recruitment of the CPP-NPA-NDF that will eradicate the thrill and excitement factors and will make such recruitment ineffective to the S/YS.

The challenge for the Philippine Army with its vast resources is to find ways on how to redirect their idealism, since it is not possible to take it away, from the active minds of the Filipino youths. We need to create a systematic approach of channeling youth idealism from a destructive mode of embracing the armed struggle espoused by the CTM, to a productive mode of participating in nation-building activities in partnership with government entities, legitimate peoples/private organizations, and non-governmental organizations.

In order to finally achieve an end to this over four (4) decade-old insurgency problem, we must be able to transform the passive mode of the majority of the Filipino youth to become active catalysts of change. Only by achieving this feat we will have an environment, where the youth themselves, will protect their fellow youth from becoming unknowing victims of the deceptive recruitment of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

The challenges to finally put an end to this insurgency problem are well defined. What we need is to accept to ourselves that the facets of war have drastically changed, and we should not be left behind!

In doing so, bear in mind that…

“No chess player has ever found, nor is any likely to find, a sure way of winning from the first move. The game contains too many variables even for one of today’s nerveless electronic computers to plot out a guaranteed checkmate”.[xii]
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**This article was written by: Cpt Mario Jose M Chico (QMS) PA

The author rose from the ranks and a proud member of OCC Class 20-2000. Prior to his designation as Chief, Combat Service Support Branch at 3rd Army Training Group, TRADOC, Philippine Army based in Cebu City in 2010, he was the Chief, Force Integration Branch of OG3, Philippine Army. He also served as the Intelligence and Operations Officer (S2/S3) of the CMO Battalion, CMOG, PA concurrently as the Operations Officer of the Joint CMO Task Force-NCR, NCRCOM, AFP operating at the National Capital Region. He also served as Public Information Officer and Chief, DPAO, 8ID, PA in Region 8 and Company Commander of Alfa Co., 52IB (CAFGU), 8ID, PA in Samar and Leyte Islands.

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i] 6-35, FM 3-0 Operations Headquarters Department of the Army, 27 February 2008

[ii] LFS Memo “Programang integrasyon sa batayang masa sa bakasyon” dated 17 March 2009

[iii] Task and Prospects of the Filipino Youth, by Jose Maria Sison, LFS Praxis, November, 2005

[iv] Amado Guerrero, Specific Characteristics of our peoples war, December 1, 1971

[v] Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory & Practice by David Galula, 1964

[vi] On the Chungking Negotiations", October 17, 1945, Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 59.

[vii] Praxis:Theoretical Journal of the LFS, Task and Prospects of the Filipino Youth, November, 2005

[viii] The Gestation of the CPP, 1959-68, Armando Liwanag, Chairman, CC-CPP, November 6, 1993

[ix] Philippine Society and Revolution, Amado Guerrero, 1970

[x] Praxis:Theoretical Journal of the LFS, Task and Prospects of the Filipino Youth, November, 2005

[xi] Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory & Practice by David Galula, 1964

[xii] Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory & Practice by David Galula, 1964

NPA post ceasefire attack on civilian authority in Baguio District, Davao City

2011-02-24T07:55:00.000+08:00

Malagos District, Davao City - More than 30 NPA rebels ransacked the house of a Brgy. Captain yesterday, February 22, 2011, at about 3:45 in the afternoon in Baguio District, Davao City.

Police investigation disclosed that Baranggay Captain Alfredo B. Austral of Purok 4, Brgy Carmen, Baguio District was not in his house for he was attending a seminar when the armed rebels, led by a certain a.k.a Bobby, went inside and stole one 12 gauge shotgun issued by the City Government (Davao) to Barangay Captains and forcibly took a cell phone battery from Australs’ son who was there with his siblings during the rummage.

The Barangay Captains’ children who were present in their house were terrified by the rebels’ threats and intimidation.

Lt Col Gabriel C Viray, Commander of the 84th IB, calls the peace loving people to condone the terror acts of the NPA’s against civilians. “Let’s join hands in condemning the rebel NPA’s cowardly act of terrorizing local officials who are not supportive to them”, he said. “Let’s challenge the KARAPATAN to denounce NPA’s human rights violations”, he added.

Terrorizing the people is an act of cowardice involving the innocent civilians who supports the governments’ peace effort and now denies the useless cause of the CPP/NPA. Including the five civilian victims of “Maco Massacre”, on February 13, 2011, they are all victims of the CPP/NPA’s terroristic acts.

The troops from the 84th Infantry Battalion based in Malagos District, Davao City, responded to the incident by deploying soldiers in the area for public security operations.

Families of “Maco Massacre” victims shout for justice

2011-02-23T17:46:00.002+08:00

Maco, Compostela Valley Province – Three of the victims of “Maco Massacre” reposes as the families, friends and relatives bring them to their terminus.

The grieving family shouts for justice and condemn the brutal killing of the CPP/NPA. “They (NPA) are responsible to my husband’s death. If they did not plant a landmine, my husband will still be alive right now”. Mercedita Paquingan, Nicolas’ wife, said putting blame to the godless NPA.

On the other hand, Rosita, Juanitos’ widow, hopes that this kind of tragic incident will not happen anymore. “There are many lives wasted and many families suffered because of their (NPA) brutality”, Rosita Cabarubias said.

A day before Valentines’ eve, a heartless attack of the communist/terrorists NPA to civilians shocked the people of Comval Province after a community peace rally held at the tennis court of the Poblacion of Maco, Compostela Valley Province. The event was participated by 22 Barangays or more than 1,300 civilians coming from different sectors of Maco in cooperation with the Local Government Units, Local Government Agencies, and PNP – Maco. Governor Arturo Uy of ComVal Province was the guest of honour and speaker of the said peace rally.

At about 4:45 in the afternoon, right after the community rally, the people were on their way home on board a military truck, remorselessly attacked by the CPP/NPA by detonating an improvised explosive device at the roadside of Purok 6, Brgy. Libay-libay, Maco, Compostela Valley Province. Five civilians were held casualties.
Nicholas Paquingan (56) and a resident of Brgy Dumlan, Maco was dead on the spot. Four of them were brought to the Davao Regional Hospital in Tagum City.

Unfortunately, on Valentine’s Day, February 14, two of the wounded civilians Juanito Cabarubias (52) and Angelito Cumayas Jr. (42) gave in to their wounds.
On Monday at 2:30 P.M., after the necrology at the Tagum Chapel in Brgy. Conocotan, Tagum, the late Juanito Cabarobias was buried at the La Filipina Cemetery in Tagum City. On their way to the cemetery, the family members and friends call out for justice to the death of their loved ones.

The following day, Tuesday at 2:30 in the afternoon after a necrology with the families, friends and relatives, interment was given to the late Nicolas Paquingan at Brgy. Dumlan, Maco.

Today, at 9 in the morning, the late Angelito Cumayas Jr. is also buried at the estate of Cumaya’s family in Brgy Libay- libay, Maco, Compostela Valley Province.
“Recalling the recent Maco Massacre that resulted to the untimely death of our three fellow Filipinos is very disheartening”, Lt Col Joshua B. Santiago said as he extends his heartfelt condolences to the families of the three victims. “Let’s just pray for their repose and hopes for an exact verdict to the perpetrators. It should be a challenge to the human rights advocates like KARAPATAN to condemn the landmining of the CPP/NPA instead of justifying its terroristic acts”, he added.

Governor Arturo Uy denounced the CPP/NPA’s attack to the civilians who were his audience during the peace rally where he rendered a song entitled “PAGKAKAISA”.
“The CPP/NPA should give justice to their victims, they knew who did it, and they have their Kangaroo Court.” The Governor said over an interview in a local TV network.

The local government units of Maco and the 71st Infantry “Kaibigan” Battalion extended assistance to the families and will continue its mission.

TAMANG IMPORMASYON O TAMANG DELIHENSYA?

2011-02-23T17:33:00.005+08:00

SA MATAGAL nang panahon kinikilala ang media na daluyan ng tamang impormasyon, bantay para kaayusan at tinig ng sambayanan. Walang pader na hindi guguho pag-media na ang kumalampag. Ang kapangyarihang ito, ang siyang naging batayan upang tawagin ang mga mamahayag na the fourth estate.

Napakahalaga ng papel na ginagampanan ng media sa daloy ng pagbabago at kaunlaran ng mga bansa. Nabuo ang malawakang anti-corruption and anti-authoritarian movements sa mga impormasyong isinisiwalat ng media. Afterall, kayang i-counter maneuver ang armadong pag-aaklas pero walang makaka-hadlang sa delubyo ng pagbabago gamit ang opinyon-publiko. Ayon sa Wikepedia, “The concept of the Fourth Estate (or fourth estate) is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. It now most commonly refers to the news media; especially print journalism.”

Noong taong 2000 pilit napa-resign sa pwesto si President Jamil Mahuad Witt ng Ecuador. Sa Argentina napalayas si President Fernando de la Rua dahil sa malawakang pagbubunyag ng mga katiwalian na bumunga ng maigting na financial crisis noong 2001. Ganun din ang nangyari kay President Sanchez de Lozada ng Bolivia noong 2003 at President Carlos Mesa noong 2005.

Opinyon publiko rin ang bumuo ng pwersa ng pagbabago sa Thailand dahil sinalanta ito ng political crisis noong 2006, na humantong sa pag-layas sa pwesto ni Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra makalipas ang ilang buwan na demonstrasyon ng mamamayan at military coup.

Sa Pilipinas, tayong mga Pinoy ay kilalang “mahilig sa mga balita”. Sa mga pilyong isipan “tsismis”. Masdan n’yo na lang kung ano karami ang national broad sheet papers, tabloids, himpilan ng mga radyo, telebisyon at cable-tv channels. Meron pang mga provincial-base media outlets at isama na natin ang SMS or texting na napakabilis magkalat ng impormasyon (mahigit 60% ng ating populasyon ang gumagamit ng cellphones!).

Siempre, aminado tayo na sa pagpapalit-palit ng Administrasyon (mula sa pagbagsak ng rehimeng Marcos hanggang kay PGMA) hindi matatawaran ang naging papel ng media. May mga nagsasabi nga na “malaki ang naging papel ng texting” sa pagbagsak ng Administrasyong Erap. Katunayan, may mga political personalities na ngayon, na pumapasok sa media para sumikat at hindi na mahihirapan sa darating na electoral campaigns.

Ngunit may mga sitwasyong nangyayari na hindi maganda sa medyang pinoy.

Sa nakalipas na 42-taon, matagumpay na nagamit at nasabotahe ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF ang mass media sa Pilipinas. Pinalala pa ang sitwasyong ito mga opurtunistang pulitiko.

Gamit ang pormula ni Mao Tsetung na “in this war - propaganda plays a vital role, whoever wins the propaganda –wins the war!” epektibong nakapalawak ang maoist communist movement sa bansa. Take note: ang unang namumunong mga kasapi ng CPP Central Committee ay mga personalidad na galing sa mainstream media –Sison, Zumel, Ocampo et al.

Ang First Quarter Storm ang nagsilbing hudyat upang isulong ang Pangalawang Bugso ng maoist lead national democratic propaganda movement. Todong nalamutak ng mga komunista (gamit ang national democratic orientation) para mokontrol ang College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP). Mula noong 1970s napakarami na ang naging produkto ng samahang ito at signipikanteng bilang ang naka-pwesto sa mga pangunahing media outlets. Epektibong ‘nakatay’ sa opinyon publiko na bulok ang estado. Pinatunayan pa ito ng talagang mga korap at opurtunista na nakapasok sa gobyerno.
Ang protracted people’s war na pangunahing estratehiya ng CPP-NPA-NDF ay sobra pa sa epektibong sumabotahe ng ekonomiya ng bansa. Maagang bahagi ng 1970s, kinikilala na sana ang Pilipinas bilang “booming tiger economy of Asia” at kahalintulad na sana tayo ng bansang Japan.

Gamit ang Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) naorganisa ng komunistang kilusan ang mga estratehikong kumpanya at industriya. Ang NPA naman ay walang humpay sa paniningil ng revolutionary taxations kahit sa maliliit na mga negosyante. Ang mga power transmission towers at mga tulay na pinonduhan mula sa pangungutang ng Gobyerno ay pinapasabog ng mga teroristang-rebelde. Resulta, sa maagang bahagi ng 1980s tinatantya na mahigit P1.7 trilyon ang nawala sa ekonomiya ng bansa “in the form of direct and consequential investments”. Ang mga power transmission towers at mga tulay na pinonduhan mula sa pangungutang ng Gobyerno ay pinapasabog ng mga teroristang-rebelde. Inamin din ng National Security Council (NSC) na “halos 2% ng taunang Gross National Product” ang nawawala dahil sa pananabotahe ng CPP-NPA-NDF.
Ang social impact ng terorismo ay gutom, kawalan ng trabaho, under-employment at kaugnay pa na mga problema. Itong mga isyu mismo na ito, ang siya ring ginagamit ng mga legal front organizations ng CPP-NPA-NDF laban sa Gobyerno! At media ang pangunahing instrumento!

Ang mga media practitioners na nangahas sa pag-expose ng mga kabalbalan na ito ay walang awang pinagpapaslang ng NPA, gaya ng nangyari kina Jun Porras-Pala ng Davao City; Dr. Ric Nepumuceno ng Bicol; Rino Arcones at Eddie Swede ng DYFM-Bombo Radyo-Iloilo at marami pa.

Bihasa sa paggamit ng panlilinlang at dahas ang mga komunistang-terorista!

Kaya nga, halos hindi natin matutunghayan na pinag-uusapan sa media ang terorismo. Panay na lang negatibong atake laban sa gobyerno o dili kaya hubad na katawan ng mga babae at samu’t saring kriminalidad na headlines sa mga dyaryo.

May mga media practitioners naman na nakontento na lamang sa pag-delihensya gamit ang “press card”. Meron d’yang ginagamit ang pangalan ng kanyang kasamahan upang maningil ng “parating” mula sa jueteng operators pero sinasarili naman ang koleksyon. Meron namang ‘nagpapa-gamit’ na lamang sa pulitiko for survival!

Ang hindi nakikita: terorismo ang ugat ng lahat! Ang manindigan kontra sa mga demonyong ito, ay isang seryoso na hamon para sa malaya at progresibong bukas.

NPA’s Abduct Non Combatants, Stage Highway Robberies

2011-02-08T08:10:00.002+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City- Simultaneous highways robbery and abduction incidents happened early this morning eight days before the resumption of formal peace talks between the government and the CPP/NPA/NDF in Oslo, Norway on February 15, 2011.

The New People’s Army staged highway robbery and abductions at 5:30 this morning, February 7, 2011, in four different areas in Southern Mindanao. These areas were in Sto. Nino, Bansalan; Astorga, Sta. Cruz, both in Davao del Sur; Brgy. Marapat, Compostela, Compostela Valley Province and in Buddha Highway going to Bukidnon.

The armed group robbed one calibre .45 pistol from PO1 Edwin Antipuesto of Philippine National Police (PNP) Magsaysay, Davao del Sur at 5:30 this morning. Based on reports he was onboard a vehicle going to his office when the armed group flagged the vehicle he was riding.

While the calibre .45 pistol of P01 Ace Villapaz who was onboard of a passenger van going to Davao City was also robbed by the armed group clad in black fatigue uniforms. Undetermined numbers of NPA from SECOM 51 Command also blocked the road in Sta Cruz, Davao del Sur Highway and help up a Weena Bus and the passenger van where Villapaz is onboard. Villapaz, from the Regional Monitoring Group 11 (RMG11), was about to report to his station after a week end vacation.

Meanwhile, two military soldiers were abducted. An army trooper driving his motorcycle while on a weekend vacation was flagged down by 30 NPA members who escaped in an elf truck with the victim in Monkayo Comval Province.

A Retired Army soldier was also abducted along Buddha Highway, going to Bukidnon, at around 6:00 am yesterday, February 6, 2011.

LTC JOSHUA SANTIAGO, Spokesperson of 10ID said, “These incidents are clear demonstrations of CPP/NPA’s deceptive nature which is a clear violation of CARHRIHL. The two soldiers are non combatants when they were abducted. We therefore challenge the human rights advocates to look into and act on these violations.”

“The irrational behaviour of the communist terrorists only shows their criminal tendencies and may be seen as acts of desperation. Clearly, they gain nothing from these stunts”, LTC SANTIAGO added.

“TUWID NA LANDAS”: Patungo ba sa kaliwa?

2011-02-04T11:03:00.003+08:00

SANTAMBAK ang mga maseselang usaping kumakaladkad sa sambayanan tungo sa hindi pa siguradong direksyon.

Nakikipag-usap para sa “kapayapaan” ngayon ang Gobyerno sa maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF. Ngunit ang pamamaraan ay balot ng hindi malinaw na mga pamantayan. Ayon kay Cong. Jun Alcover ng ANAD Partylist “kaduda-duda ang mga personalidad na bumubuo ng Government Panel sapagkat gaya ni Atty. Alex Padilla (Chairman) ay galing sa samahan ng mga abogadong nakahanay sa front organizations under the NDF”.

Kasama rin sa pinagdu-dudahan ni Cong. Alcover si Secretary Leila Delima ng Department of Justice na kamag-anak ni Juliet Delima –ang asawa ni Jose Ma. Sison (a.k.a Amado Guerero/Armando Liwanag) na s’yang Chairman ng maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

Tadtad ng mga elemento mula sa “kaliwang pwersa” ang Administrasyong Noynoy Aquino. Nandiyan si Etta Rosales sa Commission on Human Rights (CHR), si Joel Rocamora sa Anti-Poverty Commission. Rolando Llamas bilang Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs at iba pa sa mga hindi gaanong pansinin na mga posisyon.

Ang tatlong nabanggit ay mga pangunahing lider ng AKBAYAN Partylist. Binuo ito noong Enero 1998 mula sa apat na makakaliwang-bloke: Bukluran para sa Ikauunlad ng Sosyalistang Isip at Gawa (BISIG); Christian socialists; social democrat group ng Pandayan, at Siglo ng Paglaya (Siglaya) –mula sa hanay ng mga rejectionist sa diktadurya ni Joma Sison. Itong panhuling grupo ay nagkawatak-watak din at ang pumalit sa loob ng AKBAYAN ay ang grupong tinaguriang Padayon.

Kahit saang anggulo sisilipin, ang mga grupong nabanggit ay panay mga MAKAKALIWA. Bagay na pinagmulan ng pagka-dismaya ng nakakarami, sa loob at labas ng Gobyerno.

Lalong umigting pa ang mga pagdududa kung saan ang tungo ng “tuwid na landas” noong pinalaya ni P-Noy ang ‘Morong 43’. Kumprehensibo ang datus ng AFP/PNP na ang mga ito ay kasapi at aktibong mga kadre sa National Health Staff ng NPA. Pinagtibay pa ito ng lima (5) sa 43 na nahuli sa pamamagitan ng boluntaryong paglagda sa affidavits na nagpapatunay na sila ay bahagi ng armadong pwersa ng teroristang NPA.

SA LAHAT ng mga “makakaliwang elemento” na ito, ang pinaka-organisado, brutal at well finance ay ang maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF. Nakalatag sa mga estratehikong sector ang kanilang mga sectoral at multi-sectoral front organizations. Ang kanilang goons (NPA) ay may kakayahang maglunsad ng kahit anumang-karahasan sa lahat ng oras.

ANG MALAKING pinagtatakahan ko ngayon ay ang “timing” ng mga pangyayari. Sabi ko nga kanina, ang pagpasok nila sa Administrasyong P-Noy ay pinagmulan ng pagka-dismaya ng nakakarami, sa loob at labas ng Gobyerno. Pero noong nag-umpisang lumutang na ang mga usapin hinggil sa infiltration ng mga makakaliwang ito in the key government positions bigla namang umiba ang senaryo sa opinyon publiko.

Naganap ang sunod-sunod na mga brutal kidnappings/carnappings. Nabunyag ang pagbili ni P-Noy ng Porsche. Binomba ang isang bus sa EDSA kung saan lima (5) ang patay at 15 ang sugatan. Sumabog ang “paba-on scandal” sangkot ang mga matataas na opisyal ng militar. Tumaas ang flag-down rate sa taxi ganun din ang presyo ng petroleum products at mga toll gate fees sa SLEX at NLEX.

Natabunan ng mga ‘headlines’ ang usapin hinggil sa pag-posisyon ng mga kaliwete sa Pamahalaan!

Ang tanong: meron bang sistematikong ‘smoke screening’ activity ang mga MAKAKALIWANG PWERSA para sa mas malaki pa nilang maniobra? O sadyang nagka-timing lamang ang mga kaganapan batay sa mas malawak na desenyo ng mga maoistang-terorista sa pag-agaw ng pampulitikang kapangyarihan?

Maging mapag-masid, baka ang “tuwid na landas” ay mahatak ng mga makakaliwa at mai-biglang liko sa komunistang komunoy!

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CONGRATULATIONS kay Congressman Jun Alcover ng ANAD Partylist, nominated by GNN/Congress Magazine as one of the 30 Outstanding Congressmen of 2010. Awarding: February 16, 2011 sa Manila Garden Hotel

MALINAMNAM NA PANLILINLANG!

2011-01-30T14:33:00.001+08:00

Kinondena ng Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) ang pambobomba ng pampasaherong bus sa EDSA noong Enero 25, 2011. Sa naturang insidente limang (5) na ang namatay at 15 ang sugatan. With reference to Marco Balbuena sinabi ng CPP na “The NPA does not engage in such senseless acts of violence that cause death and injury to ordinary people….” (www.philippinerevolution.net, Jan 27, 2011)

Deklarasyong ala-Ponso Pilato. Nakakapang-akit na parang katotohanan!

Yan din ang awtomatikong tono ni Jose Ma. Sison (a.ka. Amado Guerero/Armando Liwanag) noong may sumabog na bomba sa rally ng Liberal Party (Agosto 21, 1971) sa Plaza Miranda. Mabilis nilang isiniwalat na ang pambobomba ay pakana ng Diktadurang Rehimen ni Marcos.

Sa ngayon, parang mga ibong loro at kalusasising naghihiyawan sa iba’t ibang nota ang makinarya ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF at mga legal na prenteng organisasyon nito upang ibunyag ang mga pagdududa na “…the bombing was carried out just a few days before the scheduled Strategic Dialogue between top security and defense officials of the Philippine and US governments. The bombing is now being portrayed as a confirmation of a recent US advisory about an imminent terrorist attack in the country…”

Ayon pa rin sa naturang Website ng CPP, “It is also curious that the bombing was carried out amidst some positive developments in the realm of peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the NDFP, which fascists and ultra-reactionaries have been trying to scuttle and saddle with difficulties. Preliminary consultations for the resumption of peace talks between the Philippine government and the MILF are also about to begin. These dark forces operating in the defense and security agencies have gone to great lengths to hinder progress in political negotiations and assert the primacy of the military in the counterrevolutionary war effort and in the so-called "maintenance of peace and order."

Naala-ala ko tuloy ang mga katagang laging binibitawan ni Bal Domingo, sa kanyang programa sa DZRB-Radyo ng Bayan, “…itong mga komunistang-terorista kung mananalita ay parang katabi nila ang mga nagplano sa kung anumang karahasan!”

Ang Plaza Miranda Bombing ay naging ‘kagagawan ni Diktadurya’ resulta ng masinop na propaganda ng mga komunistang-terorista. Sinamantala nila ang “mabaho na reputasyon” ni Marcos upang gatungan ang oposisyon na tumahak sa landas ng rebolusyonaryo at armadong pakikibaka para mabago ang sistema.

Ngunit pagkalipas ng ilang taon, lumabas ang katotohan. Ang nagpa-bomba ng Liberal Party Rally sa Plaza Miranda ay hindi si Marcos bagkus kauutusan ni Jose Ma. Sison “to create a quantum leap in the revolutionary situation” (Building a Better Nation by Jovito R. Salonga, page 65). Pinagtibay din ang rebelasyong ito ng mga dating kasapi ng CPP-NPA na bumalik-loob na sa Pamahalaan.

Ang kasinungalingan ay hindi pwedeng gawing pantabun upang lumabas na parang katotohanan ang isang mapanlinlang at demonyong adhikain! Naukit na sa mga pahina ng kasaysayan ng bansa ang pagkadalubhasa ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF sa paggamit ng dahas.

PEACETALK. Mula pa noong Administrasyong Cory Aquino walang humpay na kinakausap ng Pamahalaan itong mga komunistang-terorista. Seryoso ang Gobyerno na bigyan na ng tuldok ang insurgency para magkaroon ng kapayapaan at kaunlaran. Subalit, sa mahigit 22 taon nang patigil-tigil na negosasyon walang matinong nangyayari.

Ngayon naglalaway na naman ang maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF sa usaping ito sapagkat “friendly” sa kanila ang komposisyon ng Government Peace Panel. Ayon kay Cong. Jun Alcover (ng ANAD Partylist) “kaduda-duda ang mga personalidad nitong mga bumubuo ng ating panel dahil sa kanilang background galing sa kaliwang kilusan….”

Hindi pakay ng CPP-NPA-NDF na makamit ang “kapayapaan at kaunlaran”. Itinuturing nila ito na isang pagkakataon at instrumento upang medaling maagaw ang pampulitikang kapangyarihan. Ayon kay Luis Jalandoni, “..peacetalk is another form of legal struggle” na kinakailangang gamitin upang isulong ang rebolusyon.

Ano ngayon ang maasahan ng sambayan sa mga teroristang ito? Isa lang ang masisigurado ko, ang malinamnam na panlilinlang!

“GOOD VERSUS EVIL”: SAAN PATUTUNGO?

2011-01-23T10:18:00.002+08:00

Naala-ala n’yo ba yong yugto na ikinakasa pa lamang ang kandidatura ni Noynoy Aquino para Pangulo? Iba’t-ibang mga grupo noon ang nananawagan ng pagbabago. Naging sandalan pa ang pagpanaw ni dating-Pangulong Cory Aquino para mabuo ang nagkakaisang pwersa laban sa pangkat ng Lakas-NUCD-KAMPI ng Administrasyong Arroyo.
Kanya-kanya sila sa pag-agaw ng pampublikong atensyon. Maniobrahan sa poll survey at mga opinyon, higit sa lahat pagandahan sa pormulasyon ng mga islogan para makahatak ng malawak na suporta.

Naging paborable sa oposisyon ang klema ng kampanya hanggang pumasok na sa 90 days official campaign period. Pumatok ang taktika na “this is a fight between good and evil”. Ang kampo ng pagbabago ay “good” at ang sinumang haharang ay kampon ng “evil”. Kinakailangang tahakin ang “tuwid na landas”.

Hindi kampo ni Noynoy ang nauna sa kampanyang “good and evil tactics”. Una itong ginamit ni George Bush para maipinta ang sarili “as the only moralist alternative with broad ethical personality to solve the crucial crisis plaguing the American people”. Pero natapos lang ang Administrasyong Bush, hindi naibsan bagkus mas tumindi ang economic crisis sa Estados Unidos. Ang patakarang “good versus evil” ay walang nagawa para magkaroon ng matatag na estabilidad sa Afghanistan at Iraq.

Dalubhasang sinakyan lamang ng kampo ni Bush (noong ito ay nangangampanya) ang “emosyon” ng mga Amerikanong sensitibo para sa pagbabago at manalo sa eleksyon. At ‘yan din ang nangyari dito sa ating bansa!

Parang tele-serye, pero taal sa kaugaliang Pilipino ang pagka-emosyunal. Kung ihalintulad sa isang piging –napanis ang inihain na “galling at talino”, “ibalik ang pwersa ng masa”, “sipag at tyaga” at mas nangulelat ang “pagbabago, ngayon na - batay sa pananampalataya”.

Sa masinop na kumbinasyon ng mga pulpito (ng Simbahang Katoliko) at media, tumimo sa emosyon at damdamin ng nakakarami ang panawagan para sa “tuwid na landas”. At kahit walang klarong direksyon kung saan susuong ang paglalakbay, nanalo si Noynoy Aquino bilang Pangulo ng Republika.

Poko-mas o menus walong buwan matapos ang May 10, 2010 national and local elections, umiba na naman ngayon ang pihit-ng-hangin. Muli ang target: emosyon at damdamin ng sambayanang Pilipino para makabuo ng malawak na pwersang pam-presyur upang maisaktuparan ang mga pangakong napaloob sa panawagang “tuwid na landas”.

Sabi ng isang Arsobisbo kay Pres. Noynoy, “…wag patakbuhin ang bansang ito sa pamamagitan ng Gabinete na parang Student Council”. Tumbok din ng mga pambabatikos ng tri-media ang mga personalidad na pumasok sa bagong Administrasyon, lalo na ‘yong mayayabang-na-tirador na sa maiksing panahon ay nagmamay-ari na ng mga magagarang sasakyan at sa mamahaling condominium na lumipat.

Sa isang tabloid minsan, tono ng kanilang headline na “playboy” ang Pangulo. At ngayon maanghang na pulutan ang pagbili ni P-Noy ng porche.

Ang nakikita ko dito ay isang sistematikong smokescreen. Sekondaryong mga usapin ang pinagkakaguluhan sa media. Mga paraan ito para hindi mapapansin ang unti-unting pagposisyon ng mga makakaliwang-pwersa sa loob ng Administrasyon at gobyerno.
Nakaligtaan na, ng mga kinauukulan ang batayang ugali ng mga komunistang-terorista. Ayon kay Lenin “use democracy to destroy democracy, join the government to destroy the government”. At ‘yan ang maniobra nila sa ngayon.

Resulta, maraming kaganapan na naging dehado ang gobyerno at lalong nagpa-igting ng mga pampulitikang bangayan.

Pinalaya ang “Morong 43” kahit ang mga ito ay kumpirmado ng military “na mga aktibong kasapi at kadre sa National Health Staff ng NPA”. Papasok sa peacetalk ang Administrasyong Aquino kahit na napatunayan na, batay sa 22 taon nang pakikipag-usap sa maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF na wala itong patutunguhan. Ayon kay Cong. Jun Alcover (ANAD Partylist) “…dehado ang gobyerno sa sitwasyong ito kasi binibigyan lamang ng pagkakataon ang CPP-NPA-NDF na makapag-konsolida ng kanilang hanay at malawak na entablado sa propaganda….” Nakapagtataka din na isang masugid na galling sa kaliwa ang ginawang political affairs adviser ng Pangulo.

Bahagi pa rin ba ito lahat ng “good and evil” tactics? Baka darating ang oras na paglalaruan na lamang tayo ng mga “evil” dahil ito ay “good” strategy!

Soldiers for peace and development murdered

2011-01-06T22:43:00.003+08:00

Three Army soldiers deployed for peace and development outreach program were murdered on Thursday morning, January 6, 2011 in Southern Mindanao. The soldiers belong to the Peace and Development Team 905 of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Special Forces Battalion.

The three soldiers were riding a motorcycle heading towards Purok 4, Barangay Magdum, Tagum City when they were fired upon by suspected members of the New People’s Army belonging to Guerilla Front 33. Two of the soldiers died instantly while the third casualty expired while being treated at the Davao Regional Hospital in Tagum City.

“This is a case of murder,” said Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Napuli, Commander of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion. “Our soldiers were there for community works but the assailants want to destroy the peace that the soldiers are offering to the people,” he added. With the heavy downpour of rain in 10ID AOR, the soldiers were also alerted for the conduct of needs assessment and disaster response operations.

Implementation of the peace and development outreach program started in September last year. This program has resulted to the implementation of various humanitarian assistance programs including dengue prevention, clean up drives, blood letting, medical and dental mission, book distribution, supplemental feeding and gift giving. The program also resulted to the surrender of hundreds of former NPA members and supporters.

Major General Jorge Segovia, Commander of the 10th Infantry Division based in Davao City condemned the killing as a cowardly act of peace saboteurs. He said that the peace and development outreach program which is being implemented under the AFP’s Campaign Plan “Bayanihan” will continue to contribute in solving the root causes of insurgency. “The CPP plan to divert our attention away from community works will fail,” he said.

Nevertheless, he reminded his field commanders to be on the alert to prevent the recurrence of similar incident.

(As emailed by LTC MEDEL M AGUILAR PA. 10ID Public Information Officer)

THE ROLES OF PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE REPUBLIC IN SEARCH FOR LASTING PEACE (1st of 5 parts)

2011-01-04T07:37:00.002+08:00

The time of the late-President Corazon Cojuanco-Aquino (1986-1992)

Former President Corazon C. Aquino carved out her own niche in Philippine history when she claimed the presidency through the peaceful People Power I known as the EDSA People’s Revolution in February of 1986.

She tried to heal the wounds of a divided nation when she announced her policy of reconciliation through peace negotiations with the communist insurgents and the Muslim secessionists. For a start, and as a showcase of her sincerity, she issued an executive clemency to political detainees that included Joma Sison. On top of this, she repealed all oppressive martial law decrees of her immediate predecessor, former President Marcos. And on April 20, 1986 she issued her clarion call for an indefinite ceasefire to clear the path for the peace talks.

In May 1986, preliminary negotiations between the government and the NDF began with a focus on possible cessation of hostilities; her government also provided safety guarantees for communist and Muslim representatives to the peace talks. Between the Muslims and the communists, the first to come to the peace talk were the latter. On June 26, 1986 the first three-man GRP Peace Panel was constituted with the following as members: then Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights Jose Diokno (who was later replaced by Ma. Serena Diokno when he fell ill and could no longer perform his duties); then Agriculture Sec. Ramon Mitra, Jr.; and Commission on Audit Chairman Teofisto Guingona. The NDF Panel was made up of four-person team consisting of Antonio Zumel, Satur Ocampo, Rafael Salas and Carolina Malay.

For reasons that were not made clear, the initial negotiations were held in secret before the ceasefire agreement of November 27, 1986 and then openly during the 60-day ceasefire that followed. On December 5, 1986 a five-member National Ceasefire Committee was formed to supervise the ceasefire; it was headed by Bishop Antonio Fortich of Bacolod City.

On December 10, 1986 a nationwide ceasefire took effect. In a joint statement, the government and NDF panels affirmed their commitments to uphold the ceasefire and asked for full cooperation from all sides to support the peace effort. During this period, the government proposed a P1-Billion program for the rehabilitation of rebels but the NDF insisted on a radical land reform to be implemented instead.

On December 23, 1986 the NDF panel submitted a counter-proposal for a negotiated settlement outlining “basic premises and objectives.” The NDF Paper define the roots on insurgency as “poverty, violation of civil liberties, lack of participation of the working classes, and the continued US domination” even as it sought the creation of a new coalition government and the calling of a constituent assembly. The government panel presented its proposal untitled, “Proposal of the government of the Republic of the Philippines to the NDF” with the general goals of alleviating poverty, generate productive employment, and promoting equity and social justice. The government proposed socio-economic programs as starting points, but the NDF wanted too begin with human rights issues. From the very start, both Panels were “clawing at each other.”

A compromise formula was proposed by the GRP panel head, the former Senator Jose Diokno which was “Food and Freedom, Jobs and Justice” in an attempt at a compromise but to no avail. In January 1987, the first formal peace negotiations dealing with substantive issues took place but it was short-lived. The differences between the frameworks presented by both sides to address socio-economic and political issues proved to be huge hurdles.

On January 22, 1987 the NDF walked out of the negotiations in the Netherlands after farmers and demonstrators threw stones at anti-riot police in Manila. The demonstrators tried to enter the area near Malacanang (official residence of Philippine President) but were prevented from doing so by the anti-riot police in a bloody clash. The NDF and GRP decided to suspend the negotiations while keeping ceasefire in effect. And down south Philippines in Mindanao Island many families were displaced in the barangays of Kiwalan and Dalipuga, all of Iligan City when army troopers continued to clash with the NPAs who were extorting money or harassing the people in the area. It could be gleaned that the communists, right from the very start of the peace talks, were using violent means as possible bargaining chips but the government refused to be intimidated and pursued the peace process, through a clear and defined path, instead.

After this sad episode, the government changed strategy: pursue peace talks through dialogues with the regional leaders of the CPP-NPA-NDF. A news set of government peace negotiators was created headed by then Senator Teofisto Guingona, Jr. as the GRP panel chairman with Jaime Guerrero and Alice Villadolid as members. Guingona appointed regional peace negotiators in all 12 regions of the country. He appointed the Roman Catholic Bishops, who also served in the ceasefire committees, as regional negotiators.

In 1987, President Cory Aquino created the Office of the Peace Commissioner (OPC), forerunner of the OPAPP, under Administrative Order No. 30, “Defining the Systematic Approach and Administrative Frame work for the Government’s Peace Effort” under the join Executive-Legislative Peace Council. She also appointed then Health Secretary Alfredo Bengson as Peace Commissioner. While the government was pursuing peace for the people it swore to protect, the CPP-NPA-NDF refused to condescend to peace for the sake of the Filipino people.

Notorious bandit-turned-NPA leader and followers apprehended in Sarangani

2010-12-22T22:49:00.002+08:00

Soldiers belonging to the Army’s peace and development team (PDT) apprehended a notorious bandit-turned-NPA leader and his four followers in Sarangani Province on Tuesday morning, December 14, 2010.

Arrested by PDT members of 73rd Infantry Battalion, 10th Infantry Division, Philippine Army were Toning Mungkil, a.k.a. “Kumander Monkey”. Mungkil, the leader of the “Yunit Milisya” (YUMIL) of the NPA Platoon Mazda under Guerilla Front 71, is wanted for cattle rustling, frustrated murder and other criminal cased and his four companions identified as Joel Mungkil, a.k.a. Joe; Benito Balbino, a.k.a. Ben; Ricky Mungkil, a.k.a. Muril; and Anthony Salway, a.k.a. Gusting.

Responding to the information about the presence of the wanted suspect, Lieutenant B-Jay Ursua led the PDT in serving the arrest against Mungkil. Despite of the resistance offered by the rebels, members of the arresting team maneuvered to vantage positions forcing the suspects to surrender. Recovered from the group of “Kumander Monkey” were two rifles (one M16 and one Garand). No one was wounded or injured on the government side.

The communists in Sarangani Province continue to lose its strength and influence with the series of surrender and arrest of many of its NPA members. The peace and development outreach program of the 73rd Infantry Battalion succeeded on getting the support and cooperation of the local residents from whom the NPA previously sourced its food and logistics.

The suspects thereafter were turned over to the PNP for proper disposition.

MALING IMPORMASYON, ALANGANING DESISYON

2010-12-21T12:48:00.003+08:00

Napalaya na ang “Morong 43”. Dumadagongdong ngayon ang pagbubunyi ng CPP-NPA-NDF at mga legal na prente nito. Ito’y nagpapatunay na umabot na sa panibagong antas, ang legal na pakikibaka ng maoistang kilusan. Kaya na nilang i-presyur kung hindi man paikutin-sa-palad ng kasinungalingan ang publiko at pamahalaan!

Ang 43 ka-tao na hinuli ng magkatuwang na pwersa ng Philippine Army at pulis sa Morong, Rizal ay hindi mga “inosente”. Lima sa mga ito ang boluntaryong lumagda sa affidavit na nagpapatunay na sila ay “mga aktibong kasapi at kadre ng CPP-NPA-NDF na nagsasanay bilang bahagi ng pang-organisasyong konsolidasyon ng National Medical Staff ng NPA”.

Subalit, ang mga affidavit na nabanggit ay nabale-wala. Nabasura din ang after operation report ng militar at pulisya na nagpapakita kung bakit ni-reyd, papaano at kung anu-ano ang mga nakumpiska at natuklasan sa naturang operasyon.

Gamit ang white paper theory ni Mao Zedong, epektibong nailihis ng mga komunistang nakatago sa saya ng mga katawagang “militante at progresibo” ang tunay na mga usapin. Dahil noon pa man, pinturado na -na mga “sinungaling at berdugo na bahagi ng makinarya ng estado” ang mga sundalo at kapulisan –napalutang nila na ang mga nahuli ay mga “health workers”.

At dahil mga health workers, kinakailangang palayain sapagkat ang search warrant ay depektibo! Ito rin ang batayan ng kautusan ni Pangulong Noynoy.
Pero sa kaso na isinampa nagdesisyon ang Court of Appeals na “…imprisonment is by virtue of a valid court process….”

Malinaw na itinadhana ng Konstitusyon na magkahiway na lalawigan ang Ehekutibo at Hudikatura. Nalusaw na ba ang panuntunag ito sa administrasyon ni Pangulong Noynoy?
Maliban sa mga nabanggit, hindi lamang sa pagpapalaya (ng Morong 43) ang kapanalunan ng CPP-NPA-NDF at mga legal na galamay nito. Ang epekto ng pagpapalaya sa hanay ng AFP at PNP ang s’yang hindi pa natin masusukat. Dagdag na kumplikasyon dito ang panawagan ng Minority Group (oposisyon) sa Kongreso na imbestigahan ang naturang desisyon.

Panlilinlang at pagpapa-igting ng bangayan sa pulitika ang pinaka-tumbok na adhikain ng mga komunista. Mas magulo ang sitwasyon, mas pabor sa teroristang kilusan. Kaya ang “peacetalk” na ninanais para ‘ma-resolba ang rebelyon’ ay walang patutunguhan. Ayon kay Luis Jalandoni, “…peace talk is another form of legal struggle that must be utilized to advance the national democratic revolution…..”

Asahan natin, kung mananatiling nasa bingit lagi ng pag-alinlangan ang Pamahalaan sa kampanya laban sa mga komunistang-terorista, hindi lamang sa usapin –kagaya ng Morong 43, masalikupan ng kasinungalingan ang sambayan.

Can we trust the NPA to adhere to a unilateral Cessation of Hostilities in Region 6?

2010-08-17T19:18:00.000+08:00

A reaction to NDF-Panay’s August 2, 2010 statement

Division Public Affairs Office, Camp Peralta, Jamindan, Capiz— A statement intended for both local and national Media was released by the Communist Terrorist Movement’s Propaganda Bureau in Panay Island dated August 2, 2010 and undersigned by Concha Araneta who identified herself with the National Democratic Front – Panay Island. In it they presented their position justifying their most recent criminal acts and at the same time defending their actions as pursuant to their desire for the resumption of peace talks with our National Government. (their statement may be accessed here http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/statements/stmts.pl?author=ndfpp;date=100802;lang=eng)

However, it is our opinon in the 3ID that this most recent statement by the NDF-Panay was meant not only to re-assure their dwindling ranks but is also their attempt to destroy the credibility of the 3ID spokesman. The CPP-NPA-NDF thru Concha Araneta is attempting to win public sympathy for their cause by personally attacking the messenger and not the message in their statement. Your AFP does not resort to such elementary tactics and will only stick to the issues presented. It is by reporting truthfully, being accessible, and being accountable to the public that your Army has won the trust of our people. This reaction by the Revolutionary movement in Panay alone merits the strength of the AFP’s message as the vox populi in Region 6 over their own. Since they are having difficulty attacking the message they attack the messenger.

NDF-Panay: More than anyone, it is the revolutionary movement that desires peace as long as it is based on justice. In a climate of peace, the revolutionary government can step up even more its ongoing education, health and production campaigns in the guerilla bases, pursue land reform, advance environmental protection and enhance cooperativity in production that actualize genuine people’s empowerment.

If they sincerely desire peace so much then why do they continue their campaign of terrorism not only in the country-side but also in the urbanized areas? They claim to desire peace as long as it is based on justice but their brand of justice is the kind that is devoid of due process by not even giving the accused a chance to defend themselves via a fair and impartial trial. Their Kangaroo courts do away with due process and take justice in their own hands by meting out their own brand of revolutionary justice to those who go against their beliefs or those that oppose them.

Who gave them the right to arbitrarily take lives away? They continue to kill even civilians who they suspect of being a counter-revolutionary and sometimes even their own members are unjustly killed for fear of being a mole and a traitor. For Concha Araneta and her ilk to speak so righteously about “justice” is like the pot calling the kettle black. Our challenge to them is to put your money where your mouth is and not just pay lip service and spout out propaganda. The public doesn’t buy it.

NDF-Panay: The tactical offensives that the NPA launched this July, such as the ambush in Pontevedra, Capiz, and harassment in Osorio I, San Remigio, Antique, are merely responses to the military’s continued violation of the people’s rights and defense of the revolutionary government’s territory.

It is the NPA that continues to violate People’s rights especially in the hinterlands. The CPP-NPA-NDF are deluding themselves into thinking that they are still welcome in these communities. What have they given back to the people except fear and terror? Our AFP has continued to be the bridge between the communities and our Government, the NPA in turn threaten the people and steal from them and stands in the way of progress. And by championing these attacks, they are admitting their true nature of being above the law while the majority of our citizens in Panay would just derisively shake their head at this barbaric display of tomfoolery while the remaining few will continue to live in fear of them. Truth be told, some of our communities have gone a step further and have denounced the NPA’s presence in their villages; notable examples are the communities of Linantuyan in Negros Oriental, some communities in Igbaras, Iloilo, and some villages in Tapaz, Capiz who were once NPA sympathizers but are now empowered.

NDF-Panay: Their lack of intelligence that gave advantage to the NPA’s tactical offensives can be forgiven considering the capacity for secrecy of the revolutionary underground, but to be ignorant of open processes and papers that their own government itself has co-signed is dowright shameful to taxpayer whose money they appropriate in such large quantities.

The CPP-NPA-NDF in Panay is in near collapse and as a matter of survival and to reassure their diminishing ranks they would want to continue to project an image of strength. The indicators of an upward trend in regional stability are observed in that increased activity in economy, business, tourism, and education, have shown that the insurgents in Panay have very limited capabilities and are now localized in a few barrios within each province; all thanks to greater strides in convergence with local agencies. If we compare the number of times these trouble-makers were discovered, captured, and sent to jail by our soldiers for the past year alone to these most recent acts of aggression then we see that our soldiers have far exceeded their claims of success in this conflict.

The issue being argued by the Communist Terrorist movement in Panay is the Army’s declaration that they are rejecting the government’s call for peace and our call for a unilateral ceasefire before proceeding with peace talks. Then they resort to calling us names in a weak attempt to strengthen their position. They then assert that The NDF-Panay abides by the NDFP National Council’s proposed Concise Agreement to End Civil War and Achieve Just Peace Immediately put forth last 2005 and provides us with a copy of said document. Now, item 10 of their ten-point agreement proposal states:

10. Inaugurate a truce between the warring forces of the GRP and NDFP for the purpose of alliance and other constructive purposes as stated above.

Whereas this item was the last thing on their agenda, we believe that this should be the first thing that needs to be tackled in ours, which is why we agree with our President’s stance that peace talks will only resume once a unilateral ceasefire is in effect. A “truce” while our leaders discuss how we can achieve and agree on a just peace for our Nation. Your AFP is ready, willing, and able to adhere to this truce. It is the NPA’s sincerity in this matter that comes into question. Our President extended a hand in peace during his first State of the Nation address but the NPA openly spurned it by commencing these most recent series of attacks.

We hope they will have a change of heart because we are ready to talk peace. But if the attacks keep coming as they claim then of course we will not stand idly by and do nothing.

The public has more confidence in the AFP to strictly adhere to a ceasefire; it is the NPA that the people do not trust to uphold their word. The CPP-NPA-NDF constantly lie through their teeth and have been for so long that they start believing their own lies as gospel truth.

as posted in:
http://spearheadtroopers.com/?p=430

AN APPEAL TO THE COMELEC TO IMMEDIATELY PROCLAIM 11 PARTY LIST GROUPS AS WINNERS IN THE MAY 10, 2010 ELECTIONS

2010-06-23T09:53:00.009+08:00

FACTS

On May 31, 2010 the COMELEC, sitting en banc as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) determined that 39 out of the 179 party lists groups may be allotted with party list seats. However, only 28 party lists groups were proclaimed, in view of the fact that the proclamation of 11 out of the first 39 party list groups was deferred “until final resolution of their respective cases, in order not to render the proceedings therein moot and academic”. Said party list groups have either pending petitions filed against them either for cancellation of registration or disqualification of their nominees. The party list groups whose proclamations have been deferred are the following:

Rank:
01 - Ako Bicol Partylist (3 seats, 1,522,986 votes)
03 - Buhay (2 seats, 1,249,555 votes)
07 - 1-Care (2 seats; 768,829 votes)
11 - Cibac (1 seat; 647,483 votes)
12 - A Teacher (1 seat; 614,725 votes)
14 - Butil (1 seat; 506,703 votes)
18 - LPGMA (1 seat; 417,600 votes)
21 - AAMBIS-OWA (1 seat; 357,009 votes)
23 - APEC (1 seat; 313,359 votes)
26 - ANAD (1 seat; 292,057 votes)
37 - 1-Utak (1 seat; 220,002 votes)
TOTAL: 6,910,308 VOTES

As of the present date, the said party lists have not been proclaimed by the NBOC.

OBSERVATIONS

DEFERRAL OF PROCLAMATION IS A DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF 6,910,308 VOTERS

The bedrock of democracy is an honest, fair, clean, orderly elections. The 11 party list groups whose proclamations were deferred were elected by a total of 6,910,308 Filipinos whose votes were validly and legitimately casted during the May 10 elections. The essence of democracy frowns upon any action or interpretation of the law that would hinder the free and intelligent casting and appreciation of the votes in an election. The NBOC has to respect the will of the electorate and adhere to the democratic foundations of our nation by proclaiming the 11 party list groups the soonest possible.

DEFERRAL OF PROCLAMATION IS A BAD PRECEDENT

The cases filed against the 11 party list groups are either petitions for cancellation of registration or for disqualification of party list nominee. Majority of the petitions were only filed after the May 10 elections. In fact, a significant number of the cases were filed on May 29, 2010, or a mere 2 days before the ruling of the NBOC. This decision to defer proclamation has set for all an extremely bad precedent. The NBOC has left the door wide open to harassment suits that may be filed by the not so fortunate party-list groups, who knows not the meaning of the word “concede”, thereby creating a mockery of the will of the Filipino people.

DEFERRAL OF PROCLAMATION IS UNREASONABLE

Legally, suspension of a proclamation is usually allowed when there is a pre-proclamation controversy, which may only be raised due to illegal proceedings of the board of canvassers, irregularity of the election returns, or similar cases questioning the regularity of the canvassing of votes. Questions concerning the party list registration or the qualification of nominees are clearly NOT questions related to the canvassing. Hence, the NBOC should not have deferred the proclamations since the petitions against the 11 party list groups are not pre-proclamation controversies.

DEFERRAL OF PROCLAMATION IS UNFAIR

All party list groups underwent an accreditation procedure set by the COMELEC, including publication thereof in 2 newspapers of general circulation and a period to file oppositions thereto. It is unfair that after diligently complying with the registration procedure, then rigorously campaigning on a national level and finally garnering sufficient votes to be declared winners, the 11 party lists were not proclaimed due to petitions belatedly filed beyond the period allowed and even after the votes were already casted and counted. It is likewise unfair that only the petitions filed against the 11 party list groups were recognized as valid bases to defer proclamations. Party list Ang Tambay filed a petition for the disqualification of 133 party list groups but the party lists included therein were proclaimed nonetheless. In fact, it is public knowledge that Ang Galing Pinoy has a pending case for the disqualification of their nominees but it was proclaimed on May 31, 2010 in the same resolution issued by the NBOC.

APPEAL

The Filipino people have made known their choice of the party-list groups that would be their voice in the House of Representatives. That choice must be respected. Time is of the essence and there is now an urgent need to proclaim the 11 party list groups as a winning party list groups. Right or title to elective office must not be left long under cloud otherwise public administration will suffer.

We therefore appeal to the COMELEC, as the NBOC, to IMMEDIATELY PROCLAIM AAMBIS-OWA, AKB, ANAD, APEC, ATEACHER, BUHAY, BUTIL, CIBAC, LPGMA, 1-CARE and 1-UTAK as party list winners in the May 10, 2010 elections.

IBASURA ANG MGA MAPAGKUNWARI

2010-04-30T21:24:00.007+08:00

Pagkatapos ng Mayo 10, 2010 na hahalalan, mabibigyang wakas na ba ang kahirapan? Masasawata na ba ang mga magnanakaw sa lipunan? Maging makabuluhan na ba ang ‘kapangyarihan’ ng ordinaryong mamamayan? Abot kamay na lang ba ang ‘bagong pag-asa’?

Marami pang mga katanungan ang maaaring ipukol. At sigurado naman ako na ang lahat na kasagutan ay hindi pwedeng i-asa na lamang sa pangako ng mga pulitiko. Ang desaysibong kapangyarihan pa rin ay ang pagpapasya ng mga botanteng Pilipino.

Ngunit, gaano na ka-mature ang mga botanteng Pilipino? Lahat ba na mga usaping-panlipunan kaugnay sa hinaharap na halalan ay nahima-himay na sa mga botante para magkaroon ng responsible at makatarungang pag-desisyon kung sino ang iluloklok sa pwesto?

Ang batohan ng ‘putik’ ng mga estabilisadong pangalang kumakampanya ngayon ay hindi batayan na napag-usapan na ang mga malalalim na isyu sa lipunang Pilipino. Kung tutuusin, ito ay nagsisilbing tabon na lalong nagpapa-igting ng mga tunggalian sa pulitika. Ang kahinatnan nito’y hindi solusyon bagkus dagdag pang mga bangayan! Sitwasyon na naglalaway-pang-ninanais ng mga pwersang ibig sumira sa ating demokratikong sistema.

Hindi maipagkaila na ang korapsyon ay isa sa mga sanhi ng kahirapan. Ngunit, bakit habang lumalaon ay lalong lumalala ang korapsyon at kahirapan?

Ang usaping ito ay napagkaloob sa maniobrang denisenyo ng mga teroristang-komunista. Ayon kay Mao Tsetung (ang sinasambang lider ng CPP-NPA-NDF) “….poverty is bad but it is good for the revolution!” Kaya’t kung nakikita ninyo, walang patumanggang sinasabotahe ng mga grupong ito ang ekonomiya ng ating bansa para lalong malugmok sa kahirapan ang mamamayang Pilipino at umalsa laban sa gobyerno.

Pangunahing halimbawa dito ang sinapit ng Atlas Mining sa Lalawigan ng Cebu. Noong kasiglahan pa ng naturang kumpanya, meron itong 33,000 workers at nagbabayad ng halos P54M na buwis bawat taon. Pagkatapos ma-organisa ng Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) na naglunsad ng sunod-sunod na mga welga –napilitang magsara ang minahan. Hindi lamang mga minero ang naapektuhan kungdi lakip na ang mga may maliliit na negosyo sa palibot ng Atlas Mining. Ano karami ang nawalan ng mapagkitaan?

Sa Bataan Export Processing Zone (BEPZ) na noo’y merong mahigit 300 kumpanya. Iilan na lamang ngayon ang nag-o-operate matapos din ang serye ng mga strikes ng KMU.

Sa kanayunan, walang proyekto na pinapatupad ang gobyerno at pribadong sector na hindi kinukutungan ng ‘revolutionary tax’ ng CPP-NPA-NDF. Sinusunog ang mga equipments kung hindi man pinagpapatay ang mga hindi bumabayad!

Simula 1996 hanggang 2006 ang mga teroristang-komunista ay responsible sa pagsira ng mahigit 316 na estabilisadong negosyo, pagsusunog ng cell phone transmission sites, makinarya sa konstruksyon, mga bus at marami pa. Tinatayang sa 30 taon na nabanggit, trilyones ang nawala sa ekonomiya ng ating bansa.

Ito ang dahilan na maraming taga-probinsya ang tumutungo sa mga lungsod para maghanap ng trabaho. Subalit, pagdating sa syudad naging dagdag lamang sila sa halos puputok-na na lobo ng kawalan at kakulangan ng mapagtrabahuan. Dagdag na problema sa pabahay, basura at iba pang mga panlipunang suliranin.

Ito rin ang mga lehitimong social concerns ang ginagamit ng mga prenteng organisasyon ng CPP-NPA-NDF laban sa gobyerno. At sa pamamagitan ng masinop na paglubid ng mapanlinlang na mga propaganda –tuluyang discredited ang pamahalaan.

Ngayong eleksyon, karamihan sa mga kumakandidato mula konsehal ng bayan hanggang pagka-pangulo ng bansa ay kinukutungan ng NPA (sa iba’t ibang anyo) ng “permit to campaign fees”. Hayagang ekstorsyon na noong 2001, 2004 at 2007 na mga halalan tinatayang nakaipon ang CPP-NPA-NDF ng mahigit P2 bilyon na koleksyon.

Kung manatiling ganito ang sitwasyon, kahit sinuman ang uopo sa Malakanyang –manatiling mahirap umusad tungo sa makabuluhang kaunlaran ang bansang Pilipinas. Lalo na kung ang makakahawak sa renda n gating pambansang pamahalaan ay ‘kaibigan’ ng mga teroristang-komunista.

Kinakailangan ang kapayapaan para mailatag ang tamang mga imprastruktura ng pagsulong. Sa puntong ito tama ang sinasabi ni Cong. Bongbong Marcos na “…ang tuloy-tuloy na asenso ay makakamtan lamang sa determinadong pamumuno at lubos na pagkilala sa mga suliranin ng bayan….” May paala-ala naman si Cong. Jun Alcover ng ANAD Partylist “terorismo ang dahilan kung bakit lumalaganap ang kahirapan”.

Kaya’t sa eleksyong ito, hindi masasarap pakinggan na mga slogan ang kailangan. Kilatisin kung sino ang nararapat na lider at ibasura ang mga nagtatago lamang sa anino ng demokrasya para sirain ang mismong demokratikong sistemang ating kinagisnan.

Maoist terrorist’s “United Front” at play!

2010-02-12T10:24:00.003+08:00

“LUMANG TUGTUGIN!” Obviously visible now is the protective mantle thrown by Maoist terrorists’ legal and sectoral front organizations on the 43 NPA personalities cum medical workers arrested in Morong, Rizal, last week.

The cortège of sectoral front organizations, all under BAYAN, are drumming up and stirring the front pages of media black propaganda with their cohorts in media vigorously at work. All these are designed to put the government and its judicial processes under serious threat.

Expected are the actions of Karapatan whose avowed mission is to protect the rights (sic!) of Maoist terrorists personalities arrested by government security forces or killed during encounters. The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist is fully aware of the pompous milieu of highly questionable and suspect actions expediently thrown by these self-righteous sectoral Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF organizations to rescue the so-called “Morong 43” our of detention. Again, the sets of pre-planned mass actions, e.g. black propaganda, mass actions in the streets and other government institutions and facilities, and insidious moves against government personalities and functionaries, are tailored-cut to destroy government.

ANAD Partylist strongly points out the following:

a) Using the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to gain entry into the Camp Capinpin, in Tanay, Rizal. ANAD is aware of the fact that when CHR chair Leila de Lima entered Camp Capinpin this week, she was accompanied by a retinue number of media personalities. Quite a number of these so-called mediamen, were fake as they were known to ANAD as active operators of the National United Front Commission (NUFC) of Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF. Yet, when Ms. Lima was told by the soldiers, manning the entry gates, that they should undergo strict identity check, after the military found earlier that media organizations were used by the Maoist terrorists legal and sectoral front organizations to gain entry, to the camp to pass to and gain information on the detainees’ situations and conditions, her response to the guard was – “Pagusapan natin yan mamaya {We’ll discuss it later).” This is highly questionable and suspect! This is plain and unequivocal act of exerting the authority of her office and completely disregarding the policies and security measures imposed inside the military camp. What inappropriate statement from a Head of a government office, especially one who is sworn to uphold justice, fairness, and the rule of law in our country, did she make!

For fairness, we would like to ask this question: Was Ms. de Lima aware that she was with a group of impostors? If the answer is NO, then she should not have protested and arrogantly forced her way inside the camp after the soldiers, manning the entry gate, explained these things to her.

b) Many, if not all, of those arrested were identified members of the NPA operating in the areas of Southern Luzon, Bicol, Central, and even from Mindanao. Indeed it was one of the biggest single arrests ever made by the security forces of the state. Admittedly, some of those arrested has acknowledged that they are members of the New Peoples Army in their respective areas, and pointed to other personalities in the group as also NPA members but chose to be silent about it with the hope that the United Front effort will spring them out of detention.

Why are the groups Karapatan, Bayan, even Satur Ocampo ( a known Maoist terrorist pseudo Partylist personality but chose to be silent about his membership in the terrorist organization) persistent in using constitutional provisions, bill of rights of individuals, and other legal remedies available; yet insists on their silence regarding the membership of these personalities in the NPA as mentioned by Valentino Paulino a.k.a. Ka Beloy, one of those arrested, admitted being a member of the NPA in Bulacan, and chose to return to the folds of the law; and PNP Inspector Rex Cuntapay’s positive identification of Linda Otañez and Pearl Irene Martinez (among those arrested) as one of those in the NPA group that held him captive for 83 days after his group was ambushed in Barangay Mabacud, Rodriguez, Rizal last January 3, 2009. These are only a few of the revelations that some of the “Morong 43” made. Yet, the statements of Karapatan, Bayan, National Union of People’s Lawyers, even Satur Ocampo does not bear any reaction or clarification to the statements of Ka Beloy and Inspector Cuntapay! This is blatant deception that is the usual “flavor of the month” of Maoist terrorist personalities. Too obvious is the fact that they always resort to use and exploit all legal remedies afforded by the constitution and international conventions on human rights made available by the government that they themselves abhor and seek to destroy.

c) Insisting on the rights of those arrested yet silent and has done nothing to uphold the rights of innocent Filipinos mercilessly murdered, extorted money, harassed, intimidated by their comrades in the Maoist terrorist NPA. While CHR Chairperson Leila de Lima’s sworn duty is to ensure that all people’s human rights are upheld and protected, the truth has revealed the opposite. CHR Chair de Lima immediately springs into action to check on allegations hurled by Maoist terrorist sectoral front and pseudo Partylist organizations against government agencies, especially security forces. Yet, she has not moved a finger on reports of NPA atrocities, e.g. murders, extortions, intimidations, and harassments, which have been noticed and received by her office.

One must not disregard the rule of law and the equal protection guaranteed by our Constitutions, and international conventions. ANAD strongly supports the move to let the wheels of justice and the rule of law turn along its due course.
The cries and protestations made by Maoist terrorist legal front and sectoral organizations must not lord over the wheels of justice and rule of law. Government must perform its constitutionally mandated task, and must not give way to the machinations and manipulations orchestrated by the organizations of doom and venom whose ultimate result would be to sow anarchy, in this country.
Finally, ANAD Partylist call on CHR Chair Lila de Lima, to fairly enforce her office’s mandate and should not allow, willfully or otherwise, any individual or organization to use the Commission on Human Rights to their benefit and gains.
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Reference: Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

ANAD BATS FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

2010-02-08T22:14:00.000+08:00

Davao City – ANAD Partylist bats for the strengthening of the criminal justice system in Davao City and elsewhere as a way to curb extra-judicial killings.

“The four main pillars of our criminal justice system must be made to function properly in relation to each other and the community at large if we have to stop some people from taking the law into their hands,” said ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman.

The four pillars of the criminal justice system are the law enforcement, the prosecution, the judiciary and the penology.

“For the state or any of its subdivisions to encourage, if not to sponsor, summary killings to arrest growing criminality in its midst is unthinkable, uncivilized, undemocratic and inhuman,” added Tariman.

In making our criminal justice system works, according to Tariman, we follow the principle of making the offenders pay for their crimes while allowing him a chance to reform and to reintegrate into the mainstream of the society.

“We follow the pattern of ‘from cradle to court’ and not ‘from cradle to grave,” Tariman pointed out, adding that ANAD Partylist supports the “rule of law” first and always as a way to achieve lasting, authentic and sustainable peace.

This explains ANAD’s call for an honest-to-goodness enforcement of laws to have order and ultimately peace in our society.

“There is no order in lawlessness. If there is no order at home or in the community, then there is no peace at all,” commented Tariman, saying that “peace is not just the temporary absence of direct or physical violence but also the absence of social and cultural violence. One commits violence if he discriminates against the poor and the members of the cultural minority.”

The Dirty Harry tactic of using terror against terror to achieve peace is only a temporary solution. It does not address the root causes of criminality and insurgency but rather perpetuates the subjective condition resulting to a never ending vicious cycle of injustices and violence.

As such, ANAD Partylist challenges the Dabawenyos to make Davao City an epitome of law and order and not just of “peace and order” as the Duterte administration insisted. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

The fluke of deception!

2010-02-08T12:45:00.003+08:00

ONCE AGAIN, the expertise of Maoist terrorist sectoral front organizations is at play! This is reminiscent of the many instances when known Maoist terrorist personalities, e.g. politico/legal (NDF), armed (NPA), or top officials of the Maoist terrorist CPP, are arrested by government security forces. Immediately, the mantle of protection, seeking judicial relief and skilled use of black propaganda, is thrown by Maoist sectoral front groups like Karapatan, Flag, Bayan, Anakbayan, and others.

“The united front effort of the Maoist terrorist groups, especially the sectoral front groups under BAYAN, to use all legal avenues afforded by the government that they themselves have subverted and wanted to destroy, is vigorously at play,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to published reports that the families and relatives of the 43 persons, including 2 doctors, a nurse, and a midwife, suspected members or new recruits of the New People’s Army cum health workers arrested by a joint military and police teams, last week in Morong, Rizal, would seek judicial relief through their filing of petitions for Writ of Amparo and Habeas Corpus with the Supreme Court.

ANAD Partylist documents shows that these sectoral front organizations act swiftly to protect the Maoist terrorist organization when their peers are arrested or when a cover-up is laid-out on their highly condemnable actions against the people. “ANAD does not question the arrested families’ and relatives’ seeking judicial relief. But it is the swiftness of the action that has caught us by surprise. Definitely, this is the handiwork of Karapatan, Flag, and other sectoral front organizations of the Maoist terrorist group, who customarily intervenes in such situations. This is what happened in Southern Tagalog, Bicol Region, the Visayas, and Mindanao,” said Rep. Alcover as he pointed to Roneo Clamor, husband of one of the arrested doctors, is the deputy secretary-general of Karapatan, a Maoist terrorist human rights sectoral front organization.

“As ever, their actions are in direct contrast to the groups’ damning and deafening silence on the many murders of innocent Filipinos, extortions, harassments in the countryside, perpetrated by the Maoist terrorist New Peoples Army. This is their fluke of deception,” said Rep. Alcover as he exhorted peace-loving Filipinos to condemn these highly despicable and blatant acts against humanity.

The case of Melissa Roxas is one of the Maoist terrorist’s glaring and skillful manipulations and lies. “They designed the issue as a bombshell when they resorted to mass actions in the streets and heightened black propaganda operations to hit hard on the government. They even wanted to parade Melissa in Washington DC during PGMA’s 2009 visit. But it turned out to be a dud for reasons that they know but decided to keep it among themselves,” Alcover said.

Rep. Alcover chided these groups’ intentional, brazen, and sustained actions to deceive the Filipino people. “Their callousness is openly manifest in their actions. Now is the time for the Filipinos people to realize that the once loud cry against corruption, human rights violations, poverty and others boomingly expressed then by Maoist terrorist sectoral front organizations is a halo tube of emptiness for their aspirations are really not for the best of the country and people but in furtherance to their violent and inhuman ideological aspirations,” Alcover stressed.

ANAD OFFERS HELP TO KA JINGGOY IF HE DECIDES TO CHANGE HEART

2010-02-06T10:52:00.002+08:00

Davao City – ANAD Partylist expresses willingness to help arrested NPA leader Elizalde Canete, alias Ka Jinggoy of Local Terrorist Front 3, CPP-NPA-NDF Southern Mindanao Region should he decides to return to the folds of the law.

ANAD Partylist counts among its ranks several former NPA and MILF rebels who chose to reintegrate into and work within the mainstream of the society.

According to ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman, ANAD could help find ways to support the rehabilitation and retraining of the young rebel leader who was wounded during the encounter with the Army’s 8th Special Forces Company, 3rd SF Battalion on Jan. 30 afternoon.

On the other hand, ANAD also supports the call of Chief Supt Pedro Tango, Police Regional Office XI director, to let the court decide on the custody issue over Ka Jinggoy.

Partisan groups and individuals such as Karapatan and some bishops of the Philippine Independent Church (PIC) should refrain from muddling the custody issue as it is the exclusive domain of the court that has jurisdiction over Ka Jinggoy.

“They don’t have personality on the criminal cases Ka Jinggoy is facing in court, lest they are his lawyers, which is not the case. Their over eagerness on the issue only exposes their true color – that they belonged to the same organization which is the CPP-NPA-NDF,” Tariman stressed.

Reports showed that the court has already designated the military as temporary custodian of Ka Jinggoy while recuperating from his wounds at the military hospital in Camp Apolinario in Panacan here.

This early, Ka Jinggoy already showed sign that he would change heart and cooperate with the government. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

for more, here's the link to GMA News:
http://www.gmanews.tv/video/54650/soldiers-donate-blood-for-wounded-npa-leader-in-davao

ANAD BACKS GONZALES’ CALL FOR POLITICAL ACTION VS CPP-NPA-NDF

2010-02-04T07:36:00.002+08:00

Davao City – The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist in Mindanao supports the call of Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales for the government to shift from military to political action in order to finish off the country’s communist insurgency.

ANAD has been advocating increased political action and reduced military presence in NPA-infested areas, with local government officials playing the lead role.

“Instead of merely sitting in the backseat, local officials should instead be asked to take the lead role as the communist insurgency problem is not military but political in nature,” ANAD Partylist Mindanao Spokesman Arthur Tariman stressed.

According to Tariman, the four component responses of the government’s National Internal Security Plan (NISP) includes Political/Legal/Diplomatic that seeks to tap the full cooperation of LGUs and civil society to promote good governance and citizen’s participation in the implementation of the plan. It also highlights the legal and diplomatic responses to insurgency; develops and propagates the democratic tenets to confront communist ideology; and prescribe the political offensives necessary to deal with the insurgent party and its mass organizations.

The other three component responses are Information, Socio-Economic/Psycho-Social, and Peace and Order/Security. The component responses are customized, need-based, site-specific, and strategy-driven actions to address a particular threat.
Military action is only part of the Peace and Order/Security component response that also includes law enforcement.

The Political Offensive under the enhanced NISP seeks a political solution to insurgency and applies the rule of law at all times. It also tries to correct the notion that insurgency can be solved by the military solution alone, by increasing the role of the civilian sector and the civilian agencies of government.

The political offensive will also focus on a national campaign that will be founded on a rejection of all forms of armed rebellion and the promotion of culture of peace.

“Overcoming insurgency is not within the core competence of any single government entity because it requires a highly coordinated and integrated multi-disciplinary approach. Alone and by itself, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) cannot defeat the intricate web of communist insurgency,” Tariman pointed out.

This is the rationale behind ANAD’s counter-insurgency legislative agenda, to wit:
•Categorical designation of the CPP-NPA-NDF as a terrorist organization;
•Designation of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) as lead agency in the counter-agency campaign;
•Reorganization of the government information bureaucracy with the abolition of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) and in its stead, established a cabinet-level Public Information Department that would spearhead the Strategic Communication Offensive as prescribed under the enhanced NISP.

Tariman clarified that ANAD’s participation in the partylist election is in support to the government’s political offensive against the communist terrorists which the military cannot do by itself. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

ANAD CALLS FOR RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM AMID ELECTION FERVOR

2010-01-30T16:50:00.002+08:00

Davao City – The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) calls for responsible journalism amid the increasingly heating local election debates.

ANAD Partylist strongly criticized irresponsible commentaries in the radio like the malicious broadcast of an indecent and provocative text death threat against ANAD Partylist Representative Jun Alcover and its Mindanao Coordinator-Spokesman Arthur Tariman that was supposedly sent in by a listener of DYAB ABS-CBN’s “Hugoy-hugoy” public affairs program hosted by Jun Bersamin on 26 January 2010.

Alcover viewed the actuation as highly irresponsible and very unprofessional considering that the texter is suggesting something very sinister, that is the murder of fellow human beings.

Acting in behalf of Representative Alcover and the whole ANAD, Tariman immediately filed a formal complaint against Bersamin before the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Regional Office XI for airing such threatening message.
In his letter-complaint to NTC RO XI Regional Director Josue de Villa Go, D.P.A., Tariman reported: “In the course of his regular public affairs program, “Hugoy-hugoy,” from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on 26 January 2010, Mr. Bersamin read a purported text message from an alleged listener saying in effect that, ‘Maayo pa ana ni Cong. Jun Alcover ug Art Tariman ipapatay.’”

He further stressed that “We honestly believed that the reading on air of a derogatory, provocative and sinister text message such as death threat in Mr. Bersamin’s radio program is uncalled for, malicious, indecent, very unprofessional and a violation of the broadcasting standard and ethics.”
In response, RD De Villa Go ordered the management of DXAB ABS-CBN to preserve the tape-on-air of the questioned episode of Bersamin’s program and to answer the complaint.

Rep. Alcover and Tariman, both veteran broadcasters themselves, welcome the open, objective and healthy discussion on the law and order condition of the city and the performance of the administration of City Mayor Rody Duterte lest the character assassination and uncalled for remarks both by the opinion makers and the public.
Alcover is the incumbent president of the Cebu Association of Media Practitioners (CAMP), while Tariman, a freelance print and broadcast journalist, is the chief executive officer of Task Force Salaam Federation, the Philippine Army’s most outstanding NGO of the Year (2007).

Alcover founded the Kapunongan Alang sa Demokratikanhong Reporma (KADRE), while Tariman formed the Kontra Komunismo (KOKO) and the Baryohanon Alang sa Kalinaw ug Demokrasya (BAKUD) in the early ‘80s in Cebu. They were both founding leaders of the Federation of Anti-Communism Movements in Cebu (FACOM-CEBU) and the National Alliance for Democracy (NAD) – the forerunner of ANAD Partylist. NAD was formed in Davao City in 1988. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

ANAD hits Satur’s continued double-talk!

2010-01-29T16:32:00.002+08:00

HOW CAN one be true, even to himself, when he has been used to spread deception and lies to advance their violent and inhuman ideology? This question always hangs over the heads of Maoist terrorist personalities, especially those seeking political and elective position in government.

ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover slammed Makabayan senatorial bet Satur Ocampo for issuing dubious statements designed to ultimately break and destroy his benefactor’s presidential ambitions.

This is Rep. Alcover’s reaction to Ocampo’s recent statement urging Senator Manny Villar to face his colleagues in the Senate and explain his side on the C-5 controversy.

“This is Ocampo’s vaunted double-talk! But now, it is leveled against Villar purposely to destroy the latter’s presidential aspirations and the political party that Villar heads. This is typical Maoist communist maneuver or manipulation of situations and conditions,” said Alcover.

Ocampo was recently quoted, in several national newspapers, urging Villar to face the music and the Senate. “What he did was well planned to stir-up and muddle the already volatile political landscape of the country with the hope that in the end mainstream political parties and candidates shall be decimated and banished,” said Rep. Alcover.

Rep. Alcover slammed the insatiable appetite and thirst for political power vociferously shown by Ocampo and company saying, “With their ulterior motive always in tow, not only would they use mainstream partisan political machinery as a vehicle to gain entry into our government’s important political and elective positions, but to advance the grand and insidious plan of their Maoist communist CPP-NPA-NDF against government and the Filipino people.”

“Until now, I cannot understand why quite a number of mainstream political personalities chose to ‘dance the tango’ with known communist terrorists masquerading as pro-people and protectors of human rights and pseudo political parties,” Rep. Alcover pointed out.

Citing Makabayan party as nothing but a political paper tiger, Rep. Alcover said, “What is happening now is tailor-made to serve, at all cost, the devious and malicious ends of their Maoist communist masters,” he added.
“It is high time for our brother Filipinos to come forward, be counted and united to overwhelmingly deny their callous, violent, and inhuman intention against our free country and people,” stressed Rep. Alcover.

ANAD PARTY REP. JUN ALCOVER RECEIVES WARNING ON DEATH THREAT

2010-01-26T13:19:00.001+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) confirmed the text intelligence report regarding a threat on the life of ANAD Partylist Representative Jun Alcover.

“It’s true and reliable. We got an intelligence report from a trusted source within the Philippine National Police that somebody who identified himself with the camp of Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte had asked the help of a police officer in Cebu to hire someone to assassinate Congressman Alcover right in Cebu supposedly to avoid Mayor Duterte from being implicated,” admitted ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman.

Tariman added that possibly the PNP officer concerned who is close to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena must have leaked the plan to fellow cops that the information eventually reached the police intelligence community.

“There is however no indication if Mayor Duterte is aware or has authorized the purported sinister plot,” Tariman clarified.

“True or not, ANAD is taking the threat seriously. We have been very careful with our moves considering that we are waging war with two ruthless private armies that are linked to Mayor Duterte – the so-called Davao Death Squad or DDS and the communist terrorist NPA,” Tariman disclosed.

ANAD Partylist allied groups in Davao and surrounding areas have offered to help protect Cong. Alcover if ever he would go on campaign sorties in their respective areas. ANAD welcome such move but preferred to abide with the COMELEC stringent regulation on the employment of armed bodyguards. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

PANICKY REACTION AND MYOPIC REASONING CAN'T HIDE THE TRUTH

2010-01-25T12:56:00.003+08:00

Davao City - No amount of badmouthing, character assassination and myopic reasoning can hide the truth about the world-famous wickedness of the Davao Death Squad and the communist terrorists.

This is the reaction of the Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist to a well-orchestrated tirades by media paid hacks of the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod after the debacle created by the misguided privilege speech of City Councilor Nilo Abellera last Tuesday in reaction to ANAD's claim that Davao City is not really peaceful and in fact a dangerous place.

“The more Mayor Rody Duterte's Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod thru its paidf media mouthpieces would defend the peace and order issue, the more they would expose the naked truth behind the Davao Death Squad and the alliance of Hugpong with the CPP-NPA-NDF,” said ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman.

According to Tariman, the reaction of Hugpong councilors and its paid media mouthpieces is “very panicky” that they entirely missed the points raised by ANAD Partylist about the fragile and temporary peace condition of the city.

“In their futile efforts to hide the truth, both the Hugpong councilors and their media protectors looked and sounded like the apologists and defenders of the motorcycle-riding assassins in the urban areas and the marauding communist terrorists in the hinterlands of the city,” the ANAD Partylist-Mindanao spokesman commented.

Tariman reiterated that Hugpong's and its media spokespersons' claim that ANAD Partylist has no right to question the city's state of affairs especially on peace and order only reflects the ignorance of these people on the nature of a duly-registered Partylist Group (PLG) and the scope of its activities and concerns.
“ANAD, like the Hugpong-backed CPP-NPA-NDF-affiliated PLGs such as Bayan Muna, Anak Pawis, Gabriela, Kabataan, ACT, AKAP-BATA and Katribu, are national in scope that they can campaign anywhere in country. ANAD's advocacy includes peace and order, communist insurgency and terrorism that is why it strongly denounced the LGU-sponsored summary killings and the local officials' open and blatant collusion with communist terrorists,” emphasized Tariman.

ANAD Partylist bats for “law and order” and not merely “peace and order.” Meaning the full, consistent and fair enforcement of laws, and the prosecution, conviction and subsequent rehabilitation of the criminal offenders with the active participation of the community.

“If you truly and honestly implement the laws you would have order in the society, and if you have order in the society then you would have authentic and enduring peace. A positive peace,” Tariman explained.

In the countrary, the prevailing peace in Davao City is not principled and lasting as it has been secured through sheer brute force and it did not address the root causes of criminality and insurgency. It is a negative and temporary peace..
In view of the situation, ANAD Partylist calls for the strengthening of the criminal justice system in this party of the country. It calls for the law enforcement agencies especially the Philippine National Police, the prosecution service, the court and the penology to work together with the community to address the root causes of criminality.

“In civilized societies, citizens are not taking the law into their hands. As part of the community, citizens work with the government in enforcing the laws and not breaking it. Therefore, vigilantism has no place in a civilized and democratic society like Davao City, Tariman concluded. (ANAD PARTYLIST-MINDANAO NEWS AND INFO BUREAU)

DAVAO CITY: FROM NICARAGDAO TO NEPALDAO

2010-01-24T11:22:00.001+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist is an aggrupation of Filipino people who stand for peace, justice, freedom, equality, nationalism and democracy. ANAD fights for the people’s rights and respects every human being’s right to life and liberty.

It upholds every citizen’s constitutional right to due process. It advocates the strengthening of the country’s criminal justice system as a means to attain a lasting and principled peace and stability.

As such, ANAD Partylist strongly condemns any act by any individual, the state or any of its instrumentalities to deny a person’s right to life and to stifle his liberties both as a human being and a citizen of this country. It denounces terrorism, anarchism, communism and other forms of extremism.

ANAD Partylist therefore abhors the use of force and violence to compel obedience and compliance from anyone, no less the citizens of this country. Forcing one’s will and belief on another is naked terrorism that ANAD would always oppose albeit peacefully.

It is in this context that ANAD exposes the murders perpetrated by the so-called Davao Death Squad (DDS), the Maoist terrorist Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and other armed groups.
The employment of DDS and similar Private Armed Groups (PAGs) by the state or any of its subdivisions or groups or individuals bespeaks of vigilantism which is a stigma of a democratic society like ours.

In the same breath that the Maoist CPP’s use of the NPA to terrorize the Filipino people in order to force Communism is symptomatic of a rotten ideology.
It is ANAD’s belief that to resort to violence is a sign of incompetence. In such a way that extra-judicial killings in the fashion of the DDS and NPA is a sign of a weak criminal justice system.

In the ‘80s, the CPP-NPA-NDF experimented the Nicaraguan-style “urban insurrectionism” in Davao City that resulted to the death of hundreds of people, many of them were innocent civilians, when they employed the Armed City Partisan Units, otherwise known as Sparrow Unit. Hence, Davao was then called as NICARAGDAO.
The situation in Davao changed tide only when the people rose up to form the famous “Alsa Masa” movement. It was the Dabawenyos – the people’s movement – and not the politicians that eventually defeated the inroads of Communism in Davao City and region.

In recent years, the Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF with the help of opportunist politicians like Mayor Rody Duterte made an alarming comeback by effectively combining the armed (“bala”) and legal-electoral (“balota”) struggles.

Inspired by the “Nepal experience” where the Maoist Communists have been able to seize state power by participating in the electoral processes while maintaining a private armed group, the Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF has decided to expand its electoral struggle this coming national and local elections beyond the Party-List System.
And like the ‘80s, the CPP-NPA-NDF chose to make Davao City and the Southern Mindanao Region as its laboratory. The Local Communist Terrorists aim to transform Davao from NICARAGDAO to NEPALDAO.

This is the very reason why ANAD Partylist has decided to come to Davao to thwart this deceptive effort of the Maoist Communists and their anarchist patrons in and out of the present administration of the City Government of Davao.
Our campaign will go beyond the May 10, 2010 elections. Our fight is beyond partisan politics. Ours is an ideological-political struggle. We are together in this fight!

HUGPONG SHOULD STOP ACTING AS DDS AND NPA APOLOGISTS

2010-01-24T11:18:00.003+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist exhorts local candidates under the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod to stop acting as apologists for the so-called Davao Death Squad (DDS) and the CPP-NPA-NDF in their efforts to defend the claim of the Duterte administration that Davao City is really peaceful.

ANAD Partylist made the call after Councilor Nilo Abellera stood up during Tuesday’s regular session to question the “intention” of ANAD Partylist Representative Jun Alcover and BANTAY Partylist Representative Jun Palparan in making public statements that Davao City is a “dangerous place.” He was joined in in his tirades by Councilors Danilo Dayanghirang, Conrado Baluran, Vic Advincula and Leonardo Avila.
“Hugpong candidates cannot hide the fact that about a thousand people were summarily killed in Davao City since 1995 and almost all of them including the cases of radiomen Jun Pala and Ferdie Lintuan, who happened to be critics of City Mayor Rody Duterte, remained unsolved until today,” said ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman, adding that the killings continued despite the New York-based Human Rights Watch report and Commission on Human Rights (CHR) investigation on DDS last year.

Tariman also pointed out that on the other hand, the Maoist terrorist NPA murdered 29 persons – 23 of them were innocent civilians – and exploded at least six improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that killed two and injured 22 including two civilians in Davao City in 2009 alone. IED is the favorite weapon of choice of modern-day terrorists. Police arrested no suspect so far in all these terrorism incidents in the city.

According to Tariman, these are facts that cannot just be glossed over easily. These are undeniable indicators of the true state of the city’s “peace and order condition.”

In a live studio interview with Jun Bersamin over station DXAB-ABS-CBN Wednesday afternoon, Hugpong Councilor Peter Lavilla admitted that Mayor Duterte accommodated three MAKABAYAN candidates into Hugpong’s official line up for this year’s local election to improve their chances of winning.

Lavilla also reechoed Councilor Nilo Abellera’s concern that ANAD and BANTAY Partylist Groups have painted a not so good picture of the city with their claim that it is not really peaceful contrary to the claim of Mayor Duterte.
Tariman stressed that Gen. Santos City that is used to be known alternately as “boom town” and “bombing city” because of its fast economic growth and the many deadly explosions in the past, respectively, is a lot peaceful than Davao today.
Gensan experienced only one terrorism attack in 2009 when suspected MILF rebels blasted down a power tower at the boundary with Sarangani Province.
There was not a single NPA atrocity committed in Gensan during the last few years except for the murder of a soldier last Dec. 5 that was suspected to be a handiwork of NPA SPARU hitmen.

There was no encounter between government and MILF forces in the city even at the height of last year’s war over the ancestral domain issue.
There was not a pattern of summary killings in Gensan the last 12 months, unlike before when suspected DDS hitmen “invaded” the city.

“The more Hugpong candidates would insist that the city is truly peaceful, the more they would appear and sound as the criminals’ and the terrorists’ apologists and defenders. If they would walk like a duck and quack like a duck, what are they? Pigs? No, they must be ducks, and such is the case of the Hugpong candidates on the issue,” Tariman concluded.#

ANAD PARTYLIST STANDS PAT THAT DAVAO CITY IS NOT PEACEFUL

2010-01-20T08:51:00.002+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist laughed off the action of City Councilor Nilo Abellera reportedly denouncing its efforts as well as those of BANTAY Partylist to expose the real state of the law and order situation of Davao City even as it expressed willingness to face the entire City Council on the issue.

“Who is he (Abellera) questioning our presence in Davao City. He does not owned the city. ANAD’s constituency is nationwide and therefore we have every right to challenge the claim of the Duterte administration and his Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod party that Davao City is “peaceful,” ANAD Partylist Representative Jun Alcover declared in a live phone-patch interview in the “Alsa” radio program over DXIP Bantay Radyo-Davao hosted by Manny Autida and James Pala from 12 to 1 p.m. yesterday.
During the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod yesterday morning, Abellera delivered a privilege speech questioning the intention of Cong. Alcover and Cong. Jovito Palparan, Jr. of BANTAY on exposing the tenuous law and order condition of the city.

Abellera, chairman of the SP Committee on Peace and Order, reportedly claimed that Cong. Alcover’s and Cong. Palparan’s expose projected a “negative” image of the city.
In response, Alcover stressed that contrary to Mayor Rody Duterte’s claim, Davao City is not and has not been as “peaceful, lawful and orderly” as he wanted the people to believe.

“The fact that more than 952 people, mostly from the lowly class of the society, were summarily killed in the city during Mayor Duterte’s 20-year administration and none was hauled to court to answer the murders proves that criminal justice system is not really working in Mindanao’s prime city,” Alcover commented, adding that “it is a blow to the image of law enforcement agencies particularly the PNP, the prosecution, the court, the penal institutions and the community at large.”
Compared to Gen. Santos City that has zero explosive incident in 2009, the Maoist NPA blasted at least six improvised explosive devices and killed at least 28 persons, 13 of them happened in Paquibato District, last year, ANAD Partylist-Mindanao records showed.

For his part, ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Arthur J. Tariman pointed out that the prevailing “peace” in Davao City is not “authentic and enduring” but a negative one. This kind of peace is short-term, fragile and unstable.
“What we in ANAD Partylist aspire to bring about is a peace that is characterized by the absence of direct or personal violence, structural violence, and cultural violence. A positive peace,” Tariman explained.

According to Tariman, “what we have in Davao City is a temporary peace because we never have addressed the rootcause of the problem despite the P800-million peace and order discretionary fund of the hizzoner.”
“The law must be fully implemented without fear or favor in order to have real peace and order in Davao City,” Tariman concluded. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

Maoist terrorists’ devious propaganda!

2010-01-16T12:43:00.006+08:00

The malicious and crooked minds of Maoist terrorists propagandists are once again busy and at play solely to confuse and deceive our people, and to sow hate against the government that have been constantly touching base with its constituency and seeking ways to improve our well-being under the atmosphere of free and democratic yet republican governance.

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist is a confluence of former Maoist communist rebels; victims of Maoist terrorist murders, forcible collections, intimidation and other forms of harassment; and plain and simple civilians with unwavering patriotism and boundless love of country.
ANAD Partylist is no military or government hound dog, as what the demented minds of Maoist terrorist propagandist oftentimes has said, but of Filipinos’ pure and genuine zeal to protect and preserve the democratic ideals and institutions vigorously sought and achieved by our forebears.

If indeed we are a creation of and supported by government and the military, we should now be far stronger and visible compared to what we are today. ANAD should have made it with three (3) slots since the 2004 and 2007 elections. But such is not the case. As clear as everybody could see and feel, we struggled very hard to reach the state of what we are today. It is our people’s strong push to move forward so that the flames of deception, lies, murders, and extortions, perpetrated with impunity by the Maoist terrorist’s CPP-NPA-NDF together with their sectoral front and pseudo Partylist organizations, could ably be addressed and eventually extinguished.

Marco Valbuena and Rubi del Mundo, both glib-tongued specialists of the Central Committee and the Southern Mindanao Revolutionary Committee, all of the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF, respectively, is no different from their masters in the movement, namely: Jose Ma. Sison, Luis Jalandoni, Fidel Agcaoili, Jorge Madlos, Satur Ocampo, Renato Reyes, Liza Maza, Teddy Casiño, Rafael Mariano, Joel Maglungsod, Joel Virador, Raymond Palatino, and others. They spew lies to deceive our people.

They make not only one extra step but go out of their way to cover the grizzly murders and heartless extortions committed by the New People’s Army, throughout the country. The Filipino people never heard them acknowledge responsibility on the murders of tens of thousands of Filipinos in the l980’s to the present. Their insidious lies, have been slapped hardly their faces when their allegations of the military’s responsibility in the murder of Evelyn Pitao, sister of Leoncio Pitao aka Parago, were clearly overturned by unequivocal facts and evidences, as bared out by witnesses in the Davao region, showing the NPA’s dirty hands behind it!

If indeed they are strongly against extra-judicial killings, Rubi del Mundo should have opened his mouth when the Maoist terrorists mercilessly murdered 83 persons, mostly lumads, elderly, and unarmed civilians, in the Davao region during 2009. Our heart cries when these self-professed human rights protectors and advocates never cried for justice when: a) about 35 lumads in Sitio Rano, Barangay Binaton, Digos, Davao del Sur were annihilated inside a UCCP church by the group of aka Benzar in June 25, 1989; b) more than remains of about 300 persons, discovered in “The Garden”, in Inopacan, Southern Leyte where Satur Ocampo is one of those named in the charge sheet now before the courts; and c) when more than 3 people, including as 14-year old innocent girl, were killed in the gruesome ambush in Toboso, Negros Occidental, last July 23, 2009! These are but a few of the so many incidents perpetrated by the Maoist terrorists, as revealed by residents and witnesses, in their 41-years of insurgency against the Filipino people.

They, including Satur Ocampo et.al., chose to remain silent for how can they antagonize and disobey the order of their masters, who wields far more heavy carrot sticks ready to swing and inflict damage against anyone who disobey terrorist party lines and discipline!

Yet they have the temerity to twist facts, fabricate informations, shout innuendoes, and even liquidate people, for no other logical reason but to enhance their devious and violent Maoist terrorist ideology at the expense of our innocent and helpless people.

In stark contrast to their allegations, ANAD did not demonize Satur Ocampo and his ilks. We just bared the facts, the real character and persona of those seeking public office, abusing and manipulating opportunities under the aegis of democracy and freedom that we savor today.
How can anyone demonize already wild DEMONS sworn to spread terror and destruction on the once peaceful and stable Filipino community and country! Rubi del Mundo and others are glaring examples of what character and mind a Maoist terrorist is molded and now at play.

Truly, we advocate the strengthening of our government institutions, especially our security forces, e.g. Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, to be of better service to our people and adequately extinguish the damning notion and belief still being possessed by DEMONS, like self-proclaimed Maoist messiah Joma Sison et.al. so obsessed in destroying the very fibers of our country’s economy, freedom, and democracy.

This does not make us hound dogs but a stimulus for those in government to do better for our country and people. In contrast, Rubi del Mundo and others are indeed lapdogs who cannot distinguish right from wrong but only mouth what their masters would want them to do!
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Reference:
Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

CPP DOES NOT ALTER ITS IDEOLOGICAL LINES EVEN IF IT JOINS POLLS

2010-01-13T22:39:00.002+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist warns that the Communist Party of the Philippines’ participation in the forthcoming elections thru the newly-formed Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamayan (MAKABAYAN) does not in any way alter its ideological lines.

“It just simply complemented the revolutionary struggle by widening its mass base, enabling it to achieve its tactical and long term objectives, building up its arsenal, and enhancing its united front efforts courtesy of their fielded and supported political candidates,” said ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Spokesman Arthur Tariman in a statement.

According to Tariman, the CPP, in the past and under the present circumstances, has never believed in the merit of the electoral process as a means of achieving the desired reforms in society.

“An ANAD Partylist study shows that the CPP continuously participates in the electoral exercise in order to weaken and undermine the government, and as a convenient way of rectifying its boycott errors in the 1978 and 1986 elections,” emphasized Tariman, a long time anti-communism activist who hailed from Cebu.
Tariman observed that the CPP leadership has realized that should the Party decide to boycott the future political exercises it could be facing a more damaging dissension that may lead to another split like what happened in early ‘90s.
ANAD Partylist is however aware of the ongoing internal debates over political lines and revolutionary direction of the Party.

“The Nepal experience was said to have provided new revolutionary insights for the Party on how to possibly achieve a ‘qualitative leap’ of the revolutionary struggle,” stressed Tariman.

The aging but ambitious CPP Founding Chairman Jose Ma. Sison is said to be giving more focus on electoral struggle despite some internal opposition.
The hardline Maoist couple Benito and Wilma Tiamzon is reportedly opposed to the shift of the primary focus from armed struggle to legal struggle to seize state power in much shorter time.

Encourage by the electoral gains of Bayan Muna and other CPP-affiliated partylist groups in the past, “Sison seriously considered the Nepal experience as an alternative strategic option,” said Tariman, adding that Sison subscribes to the idea of “exploring the arena of the electoral struggle.”

The ANAD Partylist spokesman in Mindanao further contend that the establishment of the MAKABAYAN is a manifestation of the CPP’s serious intention to win as many seats in the Senate, Congress and the local elective posts.

MAKABAYAN’s promotional activities have not been limited to popular mass support, but rather extend to known political personalities, especially opposition leaders as in the case of Davao City where three of its candidates to the City Council have found their way into the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod party of City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. They are Joel Virador, Lea Librado and Ariel Casilao.

Hugpong also backs all partylist groups identified with the Maoist MAKABAYAN like Bayan Muna, Anak Pawis, Gabriela, Kabataan, ACT, COURAGE, KATRIBU and Akap Bata.
During the 2001 elections, Alvin Luque, Bayan-Southern Mindanao Region secretary-general-turned-NPA-SMR spokesman, also ran under Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod but lost.
(ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

MAOIST CPP-NPA-NDF IS DESTROYING THE FUTURE OF FILIPINO YOUTHS

2010-01-12T14:01:00.000+08:00

ANAD Partylist blames the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF for destroying the future of thousands of Filipino youths by luring them into a violent revolution.

“The death of Kemberly Jul Luna, a campus-beauty-and-brain-turned-NPA-terrorist, is just a tip of the iceberg of the ominous situation where Maoist communist agents are deceiving many of our idealistic youths today with the promise of serving the people and the country,” declared ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Spokesman Arthur Tariman.
According to Tariman, the death of the 21-year old Luna, a member of the CPP-NPA-NDF front League of Filipino Students (LFS), during the encounter between the 8IB PA and a group of NPA terrorists in the mountains of Valencia City, Bukidnon Province last Dec. 15 is just one case in the long list of incidents involving young and children warriors.

Sometime last March, student leader Esmael Magbanua, Jr. was also slain when he joined a band of communist terrorists who attacked the Zamboanguita Patrol Base in Bukidnon.

With the request of his parents, Army soldiers exhumed Magbanua’s remains from a shallow grave somewhere in Bukidnon on Sept. 22.
Magbanua, a resident of Barangay Gusa, Cagayan de Oro and student of Xavier University of Cagayan de Oro, was the spokesman of the Supreme Student Council in Xavier University and an active officer of the former Anak Bayan Partylist, now known as Kabataan Partylist.

Less than two years ago, a bright and promising Rachael Mae Palang was also killed in an encounter with soldiers also in Zamboanguita town in Negros Oriental.
Palang, a daughter of a municipal councilor in Consolacion town, Cebu, was the regional chairperson of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) in Central Visayas at the time of her death.

Last Oct. 18, a young NPA terrorist was killed when his group of student activists from Cebu City shot it out with Army soldiers manning at checkpoint at Sitio Pulang Yuta, Barangay Mayabon, Zamboanguita town in Negros Oriental.
Rodel Carpentero of Cebu City was slain but three of his companions were nabbed. They were identified as Maria Carla Alvarico, a licensed nurse who graduated from Velez College; Carlo Hernandez Cabahug, who finished computer technology from the University of San Carlos; and Absin Glenn Filamer, a political science graduate from the University of Cebu.

Alvarico replaced Palang, a best friend, as CEGP-Central Visayas regional chairperson after her death in an encounter with the military a year ago then.
In Metro Manila, two students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP)-Sta. Mesa, Manila campus are yet to return to their respective families after they went to the hills with local communist terrorists mid last year.
The parents of 19-year old Albert Estrada, a 1st year BS Journalism student; and 18-year old Regina Obiso, a 1st year BS Broadcast Communications student, both in the College of Communications of PUP, have been pleading for the return of their children.

Albert and Regina were members of the PUP Kabataang Makabayan – Charlie del Rosario Chapter which recruited them to join the NPA.

In Davao, the media appearance of former BAYAN-Southern Mindanao secretary-general Alvin Luque in a local NPA camp during the 41st anniversary celebration of the CPP dramatized the transformation of an idealistic student leader into a militant street parliamentarian and later as a ruthless communist terrorist.

“There are thousands of Luque, Luna, Magbanua, Palang, Estrada and Obiso in the making, unless the Filipino people would take collective steps to frustrate the sinister design of the CPP-NPA-NDF,” Tariman concluded. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

ANAD strongly warn candidates and voters against Maoist terrorists “PTW”

2010-01-11T21:08:00.002+08:00

From their dismal “Permit to Campaign” (PTC) scheme in the past, the Maoist terrorist are now into hard-selling their newly “Permit to Win” (PTW) commodity on candidates, especially in local government units, throughout the country.

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist strongly warns the Filipino electorate and those seeking elective positions, in the 2010 national elections, that the Maoist terrorists have shifted their devious methods from merely extorting Permit to Campaign money towards demanding political aspirants to shell out sizeable amount of money, from Php 200 to 500 thousand for those aspiring for local elective positions; and higher for those seeking congressional and gubernatorial positions.

“Our sources in the countryside told us that the Maoist terrorist are hard-selling this to lure candidates into giving out money in exchange for an insurance of winning which the terrorists are not capable of,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover as he pointed to the new mode of extortion in the run-up towards the 2010 polls.

Records showed that in past political exercises, there never was a sizeable bloc number of vote’s equivalent to 3 million votes that Satur Ocampo and company has been boasting and brandishing in the past months. “The people, especially in the countryside, are now wary and have altogether repudiated Maoist terrorist presence and influence in their areas,” said Alcover. Reliable sources told ANAD that Maoist terrorist organizations have bought there way into the House of Representatives using coercion and the “color of money.”

Rep. Alcover describes the PTW scheme as simple yet blatant blackmailing by Maoist terrorist groups and personalities. “Their only motive is to secure the victory for Satur and Liza Maza for the Senate, and their own candidates in the local levels. In fact they have no intention, whatsoever, to comply with their end of the deal, if there is any, as they surely knew that they don’t have the capability and capacity of ensuring victory for those who may have given money to them,” said Rep. Alcover.

“They simply coerce, harass, and intimidate our people to vote for their chosen candidates. In this glaring anti-people scheme, our people must respond by putting up a bastion of defense to protect their sacred votes,” said Rep. Alcover as he called on all candidates, in all levels not to give even a penny to the Maoist terrorist as they will only use the same money against our people and government.
Alcover’s warning is explicitly defined when he said, “A vote for any of the candidates pushed and supported by identified Maoist terrorist personalities is a vote for the NPA and the Maoist terrorist organization itself.”

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Reference: Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

ANAD PARTYLIST DENOUNCES MILITANT GROUPS’ DECEPTIVE METHODS

2010-01-09T13:07:00.000+08:00

DAVAO CITY – ANAD Partylist denounces leaders of so-called militant organizations affiliated with BAYAN and MAKABAYAN for continuously deceiving the people on their real ideological and political agenda.

“We don’t begrudge BAYAN, MAKABAYAN and their affiliates for embracing communism if they believed that is best for the country but we abhorred their deceptive and misleading methods,” ANAD Partylist Mindanao Coordinator and Spokesman Arthur Tariman said in a press release.

BAYAN, MAKABAYAN and their affiliate organizations like GABRIELA, KABATAAN, ANAK-PAWIS, LFS, ACT, COURAGE, MIGRANTE and KATRIBU recruit members into their folds without telling the subjects the real nature of the so-called progressive or militant organizations they are representing.

The future of thousands of bright and promising young students all over the country are wasted because of the very deceptive recruitment method used by LFS, CEGP, KABATAAN and other campus-based front groups.

According to Tariman, the case of Alvin Luque is one good example of this deceptive method. Luque first joined LFS while he was still a student of Ateneo de Davao University in the ‘90s but without any inkling of the real design of the people who recruited him.

The intelligent Luque rose from being a mass member to a full-pledge party member, became BAYAN-Southern Mindanao chairman, and in between ran for the city council during the 2001 elections.

Until Luque’s media appearance at a NPA camp in a hinterland somewhere in the Davao Region during the 41st anniversary of the CPP, Luque never admitted his active involvement in the armed revolution.

“Luque always maintained that he was just a plain leader of BAYAN even in the face of evidence brought forward by the military that filed arson and rebellion charges against him in 2002. When the court issued the warrant for his arrest, he simply vanished and reappeared only last Dec. 26 as spokesman for the CPP-NPA-NDF in Southern Mindanao,” Tariman pointed out.

Luque’s case is not the first and the last. There are thousands of other “Luques” in other communist sectoral front organizations. They are victims-in-process of the CPP-NPA-NDF deceptive recruitment machinery.

It is not far-pitched that it would also happened to MAKABAYAN’s Joel Virador, Ariel Casilao and Lea Librado, all aspiring for seats in the city council under the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod ticket of Mayor Rody Duterte in this year’s simultaneous national and local elections.

In view of the situation, ANAD Partylist urges the public to be wary and watchful in joining with so-called militant organizations as they might be communist fronts.
“Be very selective and inquisitive before joining any group presenting themselves as militant and progressive as they might take you to hell,” Tariman concluded. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

Another life wasted! – Rep. Alcover

2010-01-08T10:25:00.000+08:00

“Another life has gone and wasted. She should have used her brains and beauty to the fore and along the parameters of a truly free and democratic process. What happened to Kemberly deeply saddens me because her young life was abused and cut-short by the violent and Godless Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF whose penchant for exploitation and manipulation of our youth’s idealism remains unabated and with stinging impunity,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to Kemberly “Kimay: Jul Luna’s death in Sitio Bulacao, Barangay Concepcion, City of Valencia, last Dec 15, 2009.

Contrary to what the article “Brainy beauty joins NPA, dies in Bukidnon” (pp1, PDI, January 8, 2010) hardly wanted to immortalize Kimay’s involvement in the terrorist underground activities, “Tributes mean nothing when one’s life is gone. Adulations ad memoriam for a supposedly noble endeavor is meaningless and does not serve anyone when one’s vision and idealism were purposely twisted and manipulated with so much calumny against the people they themselves vowed to serve without knowing that they are mere pawns to foster the inhuman and violent advocacies of Maoist terrorism resulting in their untimely demise,” Rep. Alcover retorted.

Kemberly, a student of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City, is one of the many youths that the Maoist terrorists duped all in the name of fighting for a people that they themselves manipulated and exploited. “Many of them are still in the mountains and with them not for anything else but because of fear of being liquidated once they shy away from the movement,” Rep. Alcover added.

Rep. Alcover further explained that he himself, in the mid-‘70’s, was duped by glib-tongued political officers of the Maoist CPP into believing that theirs was a worthy and noble cause to protect and serve the Filipino people from the fangs of a corrupt and abusive government system. “No one in the top leadership of the CPP told us that we were to embrace and promote the Maoist communist ideology! Indeed a brazen act of deception and lie that they have mastered in duping our youth with impunity until today,” said Rep. Alcover.

“This is what happened to Kemberly, whose body was found along with seven other guerrillas, dumped by their comrades deep in the forest of Concepcion, days after the Dec. 15 encounter,” Rep. Alcover said.

“Kemberly’s fate should serve as a stinging lesson for all our youths. Idealism and patriotism is what we should encourage our youth but all these must be along the parameters of a real and true democracy and freedom that our forebears have fought and shed their lives for,” Rep. Alcover noted.

Terrorist NPA should be dismantled first! – ANAD

2010-01-08T10:23:00.000+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist calls on the government to primarily dismantle the Maoist terrorist New Peoples Army (NPA) and not only the fidgety ones. ANAD issued this call as it strongly supports the move to cleanse the country of private armies as a means toward achieving clean, honest, and credible elections in May 2010.

ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover said that the NPA has already shown its tenacity to sow terror by the many merciless murders and harassments they premeditatedly committed in the countryside for their continued extortion activities against businesses and individuals; and victory for their candidates in the national and local levels, throughout the country.

“The NPAs are bunch of hooligans preying on helpless Filipinos and forcibly telling them to vote for their candidates like Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza, eyeing Senatorial seats, and those seeking elective positions in the different local government units, in the country,” said Rep. Alcover as he called on the recently organized special Presidential Commission Against Private Armies to focus more on the dismantling of the Maoist terrorists NPA.

“Other so-called private armies could easily be addressed by the military and the police after the NPA’s are immobilized and rendered incapable to terrorize our rural folks,” said Alcover. He described the NPA as a private army of the Maoist terrorists Communist Party of the Philippines, the sectoral front and pseudo Partylist organizations under the National Democratic Front (NDF) and Bagong Alyansa Makabayan or Bayan.

“The NPAs are no different from the so-called private armies that are now the target of the commission. Their actions are the same as they coerce, intimidate, and harass ordinary and helpless Filipinos to support their candidates and forcibly extort money from them. But the NPAs needs immediate attention as they are widespread and had been on this terrorist trade for over 41 years already,” Rep. Alcover pointed out.

Rep. Alcover disclosed that reports from the field showed that the NPAs have now issued strong warning on our brother Filipinos, especially in the countryside, to vote and support the Senatorial bids of Ocampo, Maza, and candidates supported by the Maoist terrorist CPP-NDF, throughout the country.

“This is undeniable and flagrant hooliganism against our people’s true will and choice,” said Rep. Alcover. “Government should act now in the light of the blatant deceptions and manipulations currently waged by Godless, inhuman, and violent CPP-NPA-NDF that seeks to subvert and supplant the sovereign will of our people,” Rep. Alcover added.

BRUTAL NA KAHIBANGAN: 'sorry' nagkamali lang sa pagpaslang!

2010-01-01T15:03:00.005+08:00

Noong Disyembre 13, 2009 sa pangunguna nina MANUEL FERNANDEZ alyas “Ka Bobo” at NOEL LEGAZPI alyas “Ka Jeffrey” Secretary ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF Guerilla Front 56 sa Far South Mindanao Region (GF56-FSMR) mga 30 armadong teroristang ang namataan sa Sityo Bantog sakup ng Barangay Telafas, Munisipalidad ng Columbo, Sultan Kudarat.

Pakay ng mga komunistang-terorista sa nabanggit na lugar na kausapin ang mga kamag-anakan ni SINDO AWING. Si Awing ay naparusahan kaya pinatay batay sa paghuhokom ng CPP-NPA-NDF “Kangaroo Court”.

Ngunit, sa imbestigasyon matapos paslangin si SINDO AWING -natuklasan na isang malaking pagkakamali ang pagpataw ng parusang kamatayan sapagkat walang kasalanan si Sindo Awing. Kaya't sumadya sa nabanggit na lugar sila Ka Bobo at Ka Jeffrey para "humingi ng despensa at kapatawaran sa kanilang pagkakamali".

Ang insidenteng ito ay hindi nag-iisang kaso! Sa buong bansa, libu-libo na ang walang awang pinagpapatay ng maoistang teroristang CPP-NPA-NDF. Sa mga komunista "ang suspetsado ay deklarado nang may-sala, maliban lamang kung mapatunayan itong inosente matapos masentensyahan!"

Sa mga pagkakamaling ito, mabilis ang mga komunistang-terorista sa paghingi ng "sorry sapagkat nagkamali ang rebolusyonaryong hukuman".

Kaya't matapos ang assessment sa pagpapatupad ng malawakang 'paglilinis' (purging operations) laban sa "mga ahente ng kaaway na nakapasok sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan" (Oplan Ahos, Oplan Kadena-de-Amor, Oplan Zombie, Oplan Tide Bar, Oplan Takip-Silim at marami pa)apuradong inilathala ng Komiteng Tagapaganap ng Komite Sentral (KT-KS) ng maoist CPP ang Memorandum na may pamagat "Sobarang Kahibangan.....!" Sa dokumentong ito tahasang inamin ng CPP-NPA-NDF "ang mga kalabisan sa pagpapahirap at pamamaslang sa mga suspetsado na karamihan dito ay mga inosente sa ipinaratang na mga kaso....."

"Sorry sa mga napatay," at dugtong pa ng nabanggit na dokumento "...pagpulutan natin ng aral ang mga pangyayari para lubos pang isulong ang digmaang bayan...."

Ganun lang ka simple ang pagkitil ng buhay sa mga komunista! Sorry lang ang katapat! Kaya, sa mahigit 10,000 na biktima ng purging operations --tapos na ang kaso sapagkat humingi na ng 'sorry' ang CPP-NPA-NDF!

Marami din sa mga pinagpapaslang ng maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF ay ipinagbunton na kagagawan ng AFP/PNP. Gamit ang kumplikadong eskema sa propaganda, nilulugaw din ng mga prenteng organisasyon ng mga komunista (katulad ng Karapatan, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, PCPR, LFS at iba pa) ang mga isyu. Maglulunsad ng mga rally/demostrasyon ang mga ito at manawagan ng "hustisya para sa mga biktima ng pasistang estado" --paulit-ulit nila itong gagawin sa malawak na entablado ng opinyon publiko kasabwat ang mga galamay ng komunistang organisasyon sa tri-media. Hanggang tumimo sa isipan ng publiko na "AFP-PNP talaga ang may kagagawan!"

Katulad sa kaso ni KAT-KAT RAMOS. Pinalabas ng mga prenteng organisasyon ng CPP na si Kat-kat ay kinidnap at sinalbeyds ng militar. Pero makalipas ang ilang panahon, nabuking ang kanilang kahibangan. Itinuro ng mga sumurender na NPA ang pinaglibingan ni Kat-kat matapos ito patayin ng mga berdugong komunista. Pinaslang ang biktima sapagkat pinagdudahan itong "depenetration agent dahil ang ama ay kasapi ng militar".

Katulad ng sinapit ng libu-libong biktima ng berdugong CPP-NPA-NDF, marami pang mga SINDO AWING at mga KAT-KAT RAMOS ang kanilang ibabaon batay sa kahibangan ng idolohiyang walang diyos at walang pagtalima sa dignidad ng tao!

Kung hindi tayo kikilos laban sa maoistang teroristang CPP-NPA-NDF at mga prenteng organisasyon nito, maaaring kamag-anak o kayo na mismo ang susunod na biktima!

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sundan ang mga links na ito:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hla2lLthroM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1dp95xlC4&feature=related

ANAD CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOR SLAIN RADIOMAN FERDIE LINTUAN

2009-12-24T12:32:00.000+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist joins local media groups in calling for justice for slain Davao City-based broadcaster Ferdie “Batman” Lintuan two years ago tomorrow, Dec. 24.

ANAD Partylist reechoed the call for law authorities to bear all the results of their investigation into the killing of Lintuan, Juan “Jun” Pala, Jr. and other media personalities in the region and to speed up the prosecution of suspects.
“Justice delayed is justice denied,” said ANAD Partylist Representative Jun Alcover, also a broadcaster and president of the Cebu Association of Media Practitioners (CAMP).

To commemorate the second death anniversary of Lintuan, the Tri-Media Organization for Peace and Alliance in Mindanao (TROPA) led by broadcaster Manny Autida is sponsoring a high noon holy mass on Dec. 24 at the St. Peter Parish in Davao City.
A wreath-laying would follow at 2 p.m. at the crime scene in the corner of R. Castillo and San Antonio Sts., Brgy. Agdao. A merienda and media fellowship would cap the event at Kane Restaurant on Magallanes st. from 3 to 4 p.m.
ANAD Partylist-Mindanao Coordinator Arthur Tariman said his group is actively supporting the events.

WHITEWASH

There have been suspicions of whitewash in the investigation into the killing of Lintuan and Pala, both broadcasters of radio station DXGO in Davao City.
Ferdie was aboard his Volkswagen car with broadcasters Lucio Ceniza and Edgar Banzon when shot dead by a motorcycle assassin after his morning radio show on Dec. 24, 2007 few meters from DXGO broadcast studios.

Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle shot Pala while he was walking home with a bodyguard and a friend in Davao City early dawn on Sept. 6, 2003.
Lintuan and Pala’s killings had the mark of extra-judicial executions carried out by the shadowy Davao Death Squad (DDS), believed to be behind the spate of unsolved summary killings in the city.

Since the Duterte administration started, 952 persons including Lintuan and Pala were killed in Davao City by suspected DDS gunmen.

Lintuan, an anti-communism broadcaster, survived the communist terrorists’ bloody attack on radio station DXRA on Magallanes st. in Davao City on August 27, 1987 where nine people were killed including anti-communism crusader Leo Palo, former radio public affairs host-tandem of Pala at DXOW.

Pala, spokesman of the Alsa Masa anti-communism movement in the ‘80s, survived at least two previous attacks. His murder prompted the creation of an inter-agency Task Force Usig that looks into media killings.

They were both known for their stingy criticisms on City Hall and government anomalies and malpractices. They did not even spare the tough-talking Mayor Rody Duterte in their fearless tirades.

Lintuan was accusing anomalies on Mayor Duterte’s P71-million People’s Park project before his murder, while Pala was harshly critical of the Duterte administration for years preceeding his killing.

Investigators however arrested and filed charges against fellow DXGO broadcaster Nilo Larosa for the killing of Lintuan. There has been no news on the progress of the case.(ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

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for reference:

ARTHUR J. TARIMAN
Spokesman, ANAD Partylist-Mindanao

Ocampo et. al. should bare themselves out and must show their sincerity

2009-12-22T23:10:00.001+08:00

“THEY MUST show to the Filipino people their true colors, so to speak,” said ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover as he challenged all Maoist terrorist pseudo politicians, seeking elective positions during the 2010 elections, to call on their Maoist terrorist comrades in the New Peoples Army to immediately cease and desist from committing anti-people and anti-Filipino activities.

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist decried the continued lies and deception of Maoist terrorist legal and underground political wannabes, especially those in its sectoral front and pseudo political organizations to fully show their wares, as they professed and claimed to be pro-people and pro-Filipino advocates, by strongly calling on their comrades in the armed-terrorist NPA to stop their harassments, intimidations, and murders of innocent civilians in the countryside; and extortion activities against small and big businesses and industries to fuel their political obsession of establishing a government under a communist dictatorship.

Rep. Alcover noted that the senatorial bids of Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza; their continued interest to seats in the Lower House of Congress, and the CPP Central Committee marching orders for their minions in the provinces to seek positions in the local government units of the country, “are serious indications and hard evidence of their grand design to incessantly stir and eventually control most, if not all, political and elective positions in the country, which is a prelude to their taking over of government,” Rep. Alcover added.

Rep. Alcover slammed Ocampo, Maza, Bayan Muna’s Teddy Casino and others for their continued double talk. “These people are of no conscience and dismally lack honesty in what they do and say. While they strongly vilify the sitting administration’s 2010 intentions through innuendoes like using the AFP and PNP to ensure the victory of the administration’s bets, they have their own armed goons, in the NPA, that is responsible in many incidences of murder and extortion in all parts of the country and without let up,” Alcover added.

“They have their own goons, in the NPAs, to ensure their victory. The harassments and intimidations in the countryside have now intensified in the run-up towards the 2010 polls,” Alcover pointed out.

In calling Ocampo et. al. to show sincerity in their avowals as protectors of the rights of the poor and underprivileged Filipinos, “now must they openly call on the NPAs to stop all of their anti-Filipino and anti-people activities. Much of life has been wasted in their altar of Maoist terrorist insurgency. They cannot deny their connections and relation with the NPAs. Satur Ocampo continues to wield authority over the Maoist terrorist organization in the country. As comrades in the violent and Godless Maoist terrorist organization, Casino, Maza, Bayan Muna’s Atty. Neri Colmenares, Kabataan Partylist’s Raymond Palatino, Anakpawis’ Rafael Mariano and Joel Maglungsod have their own respective channels and ways to send their messages through to the NPA,” Rep. Alcover explained.

“How can one be serious in calling for a clean and honest election when his own hands are full of bad blood of Filipinos whose lives were snapped by Maoist terrorist guns and bullets, who continues to live a life constantly harassed and intimidated by the same goons of Ocampo et. al.?” Alcover quipped.

ANAD PARTYLIST ASKS DABAWEÑOS TO STAND UP VS. TERRORISM

2009-12-22T12:34:00.000+08:00

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist challenges the Dabaweños to stand up and fight against all forms of terrorism and anarchism especially those perpetrated by the CPP-NPA-NDF and heartless politicians.

“People must stand united against terrorism and anarchism including those committed by anarchist politicians and political groups on hapless civilians just to perpetuate in power as in the case of the so-called Davao Death Squad in Davao City,” declared ANAD Partylist Congressman Pastor M. Alcover, Jr.

ANAD Partylist made the call as the CPP-NPA-NDF heightened its terroristic activities while approaching the party’s 41st founding anniversary celebration on Dec. 26.

The CPP-NPA-NDF killed at least 79 persons in Davao or Southern Mindanao Region alone this year. Of the figure, 54 were civilians, 13 were soldiers and policemen, and 12 were CAFGU members.

MURDEROUS WEEK
Last week, five innocent persons were killed and two were wounded in a string of atrocities perpetrated by local communist terrorists (LCTs) in Davao region.

The victims were identified as Fernando Timbal of Panabo City, Davao del Norte; Efren Sindaton Obaton of Sitio Barobo, Brgy. Dagohoy, Talaingod town, Davao del Norte; Rosalinda Ponciano Clata, Virgilio Arciana and Roderick Guba, all of Cateel town in Davao Oriental. Wounded were Jaymar Gulane and Rey Genabe, also of Cateel.

A certain Ka Simon Santiago, the self-proclaimed “political director” of the NPA Southern Mindanao Regional Command, admitted that NPA SPARU hitmen murdered the 48-year old Timbal at Brgy. Gredu, Panabo City, Davao del Norte early morning last Dec. 13 on the belief that he was a soldier.

Sadly however, Timbal was just an innocent driver of the Land Bank of the Philippines-Tagum Branch.

The repenting Ka Simon, who bragged the murder when he reported it to the media even without checking the identity of the victim yet, vainly tried to appease the angry Dabaweños when he said that the NPA-SMR is investigating the incident.

Dabaweños are further angered when terrorists under the Local Terrorist Front (LTF) 35, NPA-SMRC led by alias Kumander Ian mercilessly killed the 32-year old Obaton infront of his three children inside their home at Sitio Barobo, Brgy. Dagohoy, Talaingod town, also in Davao del Norte early afternoon last Dec. 17.

Obaton was a former NPA who returned to the folds of the law few years ago and took a quite life until he was murdered by his former comrades.

The morning on that day, Dec. 17, bullets from a group of more than 20 terrorists killed the innocent 55-year old Clata whose home happened to be located near a major road project linking Davao Oriental and Surigao del Sur provinces that was sabotaged by LTF 20 led by Eufemio Ombaogan.

CAFGU Active Auxiliary Members Arciana and Guba were also killed and Gulane and Genabe were wounded while heroically defending from terrorist sabotage a section of the Surigao-Cateel road project that has been undertaken by Sebastian Construction at Sitio Talisay, Brgy. Sibahay, Cateel town, Davao Oriental.

12 IED BLASTS
In the afternoon of the following day, Dec. 18, four motorcycle-riding communist terrorists laid down in-a-series two Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) along the national highway in Banay-banay town in Davao Oriental.

If not for the timely tip off from a concerned citizen who witnessed the sinister act, the two roadside IEDs could have harmed civilian travelers like what happened at Sitio Malikong, Brgy Suawan, Marilog District in Davao City mid-morning last Sept. 08 where Ronald Sayan, a motorcycle-for-hire or “habal-habal” driver, was seriously wounded.

Last Nov. 23 afternoon, the 66-year old Rosario Balisda was seriously wounded along with four soldiers when local communist terrorists remotely detonated an IED at the village of Fatima in Paquibato District in Davao City.

Since May, the CPP-NPA-NDF exploded at least 12 IEDs – sometimes called by the soldiers as improvised “landmines” – in the Davao region alone, six of which in Davao City.
IED is the weapon choice of many terrorists worldwide including Osama Ben Ladin’s Al Qaeda and East Asia’s Jemaah Islamiyah terror networks.

ANAD TO SPEARHEAD

In view of the situation, ANAD Partylist decided to spearhead the citizens’ non-violent campaign against terrorism in Davao City and surrounding areas.

Initially, it calls the Dabaweños not to support politicians who are themselves part of terrorist-anarchist gangs or in cahoots with them.

ANAD Partylist also entered into alliance with other pro-democracy and pro-peace organizations in Davao City and region to put up a common front against terrorism and anarchism. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)

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For reference:
ARTHUR J. TARIMAN
Spokesman, ANAD Partylist-Mindanao

ANAD hails lifting of martial law in Maguindanao

2009-12-14T12:32:00.000+08:00

“THE LIFTING of Presidential Proclamation 1959 is a manifestation of government’s sensitivities and full reliance on factual developments on the ground,” said ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to the lifting of martial law in the province of Maguindanao, in the evening of Saturday (December 12, 2009).

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist supports PP 1959’s imposition in the face of the so-called looming rebellion brought about by the total collapse in the delivery of basic and judicial services by the local government of that province, and the continued resistance by thousands of armed supporters of the Ampatuan family, a known political warlord in the area.

“We, in ANAD, were all out in support of government’s initiative to restore public order, return of the delivery of basic services by government, and the justiciable resolution of the Nov. 22 massacre of 57 hapless civilians, including 30 media personalities, in Masalay, Maguindanao,” Rep. Alcover pointed out.

“The lifting of PP 1959 or its imposition was a prerogative solely vested by the constitution on the country’s Chief Executive,” said Rep. Alcover even as he describes the petitioners against PP 1959 before the Supreme Court and the number of mass protest actions as grandstanding and hallowed noise.

Rep. Alcover cited the fact that the short-lived martial rule, in Maguindanao, “clearly shows President Macapagal-Arroyo’s adeptness to the rule of law and resiliency towards factual happenings in the field. Here, the President has made an unequivocal statement of her commitment towards justice and truth which is directly in contrast to what her detractors had been saying, time and again,” Alcover added.

On the continued tirades by Maoist terrorist sectoral front and pseudo partylist personalities even with the lifting of martial law, with a shrug of a shoulder, Alcover said, “What can we expect from these people? They always take up and make use of any issue against government to advance their lost cause. Maka-libre sila ng exposure, di ba?” Alcover quipped.

“With the lifting of martial law, Congress should now focus on a number of vital bills, like the 2010 national budget and other pro-people measures, which our people needs,” he stressed.

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Reference: Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

TODAY’S ‘INTERNATIONAL DAY OF POLITICAL PRISONERS’ IS BOGUS

2009-12-04T08:32:00.004+08:00

DAVAO CITY – Today’s sixth commemoration of the so-called International Day of Political Prisoners is bogus.

The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist in Mindanao made the declaration in view of the reported plan by the communist front Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya (SELDA) to hold early this afternoon a picket rally infront of Davao City’s First Congressional District Office on Quirino Ave. here.

ANAD Partylist-Mindanao pointed out that the self-anointed International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) that supposedly declared the celebration on Dec. 3, 2003 is nothing but another creation of Communist Party of the Philippines Chairman Jose Ma. Sison to implement the party’s international solidarity works as required in its Protracted People’s War (PPW).

In relation to the PPW, ILPS also supports to CPP-NPA-NDF’s “machinery build-up, general offensive and general uprising,” ANAD Partylist exposed in a press release sent out by its Mindanao Spokesman Art Tariman.

Jose Ma. Sison continues to hold the ILPS chairmanship since its founding on May 25, 2001 in Zutphen, The Netherlands.

The other ILPS founding officers were the late Anak Pawis Partylist Congressman Crispin Beltran as Chairman of the International Coordinating Group, Cherry Clemente as ICC First Deputy, former Anak Pawis Partylist Congressman Rafael Mariano as ICC Member and ILPS-Philippines Head, and Gabriela Partylist Congresswoman Liza Maza as ICC Member.

According to ANAD Partylist, ILPS aims to exploit the following 18 subjective concerns and issues to help attain the objective condition of the revolution: national liberation, socio-economic development, human rights, just peace, independent trade union and workers' rights, agrarian reform women's rights, youths’ right to education and employment, children's rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, teachers and educators’ rights, people’s right to health, science & technology, and environmental protection, arts and culture and free flow of information, justice for the victims of illegal arrest and detention, rights of the homeless, migrants and refugees, rights of the elderly, and rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and trans-gendered.

The activities of ILPS revolves around the stimulation, facilitation and coordination of common lines of action, the undertaking of definitive actions on its 18 concerns and issues, the cooperation with all possible organizations, institutions and personalities to attain the ILPS aims and purposes, explained ANAD Partylist, adding that ILPS’ current tasks include the following:
• Express solidarity and support whenever necessary;
• Double efforts to establish national chapters;
• Take political initiative to promote anti-imperialist and democratic lines;
• Consult and seek drafts from participating organizations and study commissions;
• Attract participating organizations belonging to countries where anti-imperialist and democratic struggles of the people are intense; and
Cooperate with other anti-imperialist coordinating centers and frameworks to gain access to and cooperate with other mass formations that are not yet within the ILPS. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU email: anadpartylist_mindanao@yahoo.com)

Indolent passiveness against humanity

2009-11-28T10:24:00.001+08:00

THE GRUESOME murder of more than 50 civilians, mostly women, including more than a dozen media personalities in Maguindanao easily draws us to some parallels in two different yet similar situations that dispassionately abounds in our country.
As the whole civilized world was saddened, angered, and has strongly condemned the Maguindanao incident, one cannot easily turn his head away from the realities that happened and is still happening, with more brutality, intensity, and viciousness, in other parts of the country .

While partisan politics may have fueled some to employ brute and overwhelming force against hapless civilians, one cannot deny the succinct tale of tens of thousands of Filipinos whose lives were snapped not only by brute force but by deceit, trumped-up charges, and blatant lies wrought about by a violent and inhuman ideology.
Evident is on the manner and treatment given to these two incidents: one with passivity, while the other with overwhelming open denunciation and grief. Surprising is the way media personalities and organizations manifest reactions to these two different incidents.

The mass purging of the 80’s, within the Maoist terrorist organization, resulting to the deaths of tens of thousands of Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF cadres and political officers never gained attention of media organizations by way of banner stories decrying and condemning the inhuman and brutal slaying of Filipinos by Maoist terrorist henchmen, upon orders of the CPP’s Central Committee leadership, that even our fingers and toes couldn’t bear in numbers.

The Inopacan massacre in Southern Leyte and the Digos massacre in Davao del Sur are far more horrible than the barefaced violence that Maguindanao massacre has shown us.
Why was media silent on the Maoist terrorist mass purging, from the 80’s and is still continuing today, perpetrated blatantly and without mercy; yet the same media are now up in arms with black armed bands and candle lighting ceremonies in open denunciation of the Maguindanao massacre.

What difference in life does the two incidents have, both brazen and despicable affront against humanity, to merit some sort of “double standard” among us?
Do we have to have media personalities as victims of violence and perfidy to cause media organizations to go out of their own shell and self-imposed selective isolation so that they would speak out loud for the protection and preservation of human life; and the inviolable right to life?

Indeed, parallels on incidents could easily be drawn but no one can ever forget that sickening passiveness yet indolent and selective treatment purposely committed by some of us.

RA 9745 hailed; Maoist’s urged to uphold the rule of law

2009-11-22T14:52:00.001+08:00

THE ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist is in full support of Republic Act 9745, otherwise known as the Anti-Torture Act of 2009 signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last Nov. 10. ANAD strongly believes that the enactment of RA 9745 shows government’s commitment towards the protection of the rights of Filipinos, especially against harassments, intimidation, and more importantly her peoples’ right to life and liberty.

“ANAD hopes that the implementation and compliance of the provisions of RA 9745 must not only bear upon government but on all Filipinos, especially the Maoist terrorist Communist Party of the Philippines-New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA), whose penchant for violence and disrespect towards the rights of peoples are insurmountable and remarkable, until today,” said Rey Salas, ANAD secretary general and national spokesman.

On the issue of extra-judicial killings in the country, “What is reported and given publicity by Maoist communist lapdogs in media represents only a miniscule part compared to the total transgressions and human rights abuses committed by the Maoist terrorists that never saw the pages of national newspapers’ or the airlanes of radio and television media,” Salas explained.

Salas challenged Karapatan, Task Force Detainees-Philippines, SELDA, and other Maoist terrorist sectoral front and pseudo partylist organizations to be circumspect, honest, sincere, and transparent in the documentation and reporting of alleged human rights violation cases. “Black propaganda is their main weapon while pursuing vilification and hate campaign against government. If they are sincere in upholding and protecting our peoples’ rights, RA 9745 should change their ways. RA 9745 should cause their transformation towards transparency, honesty, and true commitment towards the protection of our peoples’ rights,” Salas said.

While ANAD calls for a full and sincere compliance of the law by government agencies and functionaries, the same is demanded from other sectors of the Filipino community particularly the Maoist terrorists whose more than 40-years of insurgency has caused the enforced disappearances and deaths of tens of thousands of Filipinos.

“No one, even if one is a member of a self-proclaimed revolutionary organization, is exempted or excluded from liability if he violates the law. More so, if one is a terrorist,” Salas said.

“The goals and intentions of the law could not be achieved if stakeholders in the community, not only government, refuse to do their share in upholding the rule of law, especially RA 9745,” Salas stressed.

ANAD hits continued CPP-NDF recruitment of Filipino youth and students

2009-10-28T15:41:00.001+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist denounce and condemn, in strongest terms, the unabated use of the youth and minors, especially students, by the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF against the duly constituted democratic and free government of the Republic of the Philippines.

Rep. Jun Alcover of ANAD Partylist describes as outrageous and highly condemnable the CPP-NPA-NDF’S utter disregard of the international conventions and the laws of our country on the protection of the rights of the youth that would ensure a better future of our youth in the community of free and democratic nations of the world.

This is Rep. Alcover’s reaction to the arrest of Maria Carla Alvarico, a licensed nurse, graduate of Velez College; Carlo Hernandez Cabahug, a graduate of computer technology at the University of San Carlos; and Absin Glenn Filamer, a political science student of the University of Cebu, after shooting it out against elements of the 79th IB, PA, last Sunday (October 18) in Sitio Pulang Yuta, Barangay Mayabon, Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental. During the same incident, one of their companion identified as Reden Carpentero, aka Rodel, 20 yrs old, was found dead, beside a creek, some 200 meters from the encounter site.

“This is horrible considering their continued avowals as protectors of our youth’s political and human rights and ensuring better future to our young, the Maoist communists incessantly are manipulating and abusing the idealism of our youth by inculcating on them the demonic Maoist communist ideology whose obsession is violence and destruction of human life and that of our country,” Rep. Alcover explained.

He pointed to the two PUP students: Albert Estrada and Regina Obiso, who were duped by the sweet-talking and glib-tongued Maoist communist recruitment specialists into joining the armed communist-terrorist, New Peoples Army, in the Southern Tagalog area.

“ANAD strongly warns all freedom and democratic loving Filipinos, especially parents whose children are subjected to recruitment by CPP political operatives, to be always on the wary and be on guard to safeguard their children,” Alcover said.

“What happened to the three arrested NPAs, former leaders of the College Editors Guild of the Philippine (CEGP), could very well happen to your children if we remain complacent and defy the call of the times to be on guard against Maoist communist-terrorist influence whose penchant for deception and lies continues to hold sway,” Alcover stressed.

VICTIM CALLS ON CHR TO PROBE NPA ATROCITIES IN DAVAO

2009-10-14T13:34:00.000+08:00

DAVAO CITY, 13 October 2009 – The Victims of Injustice, Communism and Terrorism in Mindanao (VICTIM) challenges the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the human rights abuses committed by local communist terrorists especially the Pulang Bagani Company 1 of the CPP-NPA-NDF Southern Mindanao Region.

In a press release, VICTIM pointed out that no less than Ka Simon Santiago, political director of the NPA in Southern Mindanao, admitted to the local media that the NPA units tasked to execute the “death sentence orders” of their so-called “People’s Court,” otherwise known as “Kangaroo Court,” have committed “errors” and “excesses” even as he tried to gloss over the killings by saying that the victims were criminals.

“Ka Simon Santiago’s open admission of their men’s errors and excesses in carrying out the killings is a good cue for the CHR to come into the picture and investigate the atrocities,” said VICTIM, adding that the CHR had been quick to grab the limelight in other high profile cases such as the alleged abduction of NPA member Melissa Roxas and the Tiongson-Singson wife-beating scandal.

The CHR’s constitutional mandate is to investigate all human rights violations in the country irrespective of the offending parties.

Once and for all, the CHR under Chairman Leila de Lima should prove to the taxpayers who funded the office that it is not subservient to the CPP-NPA-NDF whose overall evil master, Jose Ma. Sison, is the husband of her cousin Juliet de Lima, said VICTIM.

According to VICTIM, “Chair De Lima must take the occasion that the CHR is investigating the so-called Davao Death Squad to also look into the excesses of the Sparrow Death Squad that made Davao City as its laboratory since early ‘80s.”

“Who knows that the alleged DDS and the NPA Special Partisan Unit (SPARU) shared some common resources and interests? There have been persistent rumors that some former SPARU members in Davao City have turned themselves into DDS members or even started the group.

Earlier, VICTIM vehemently denounced the series of atrocities committed by local communist terrorists against members and leaders of the indigenous cultural communities in Southern Mindanao Region.

VICTIM’s own probe tend to show that the CPP-NPA-NDF authorized the recent spate of killings of the “Lumad” to discourage members of the local indigenous cultural communities from supporting the government drive against all illegal armed groups in the region’s hinterlands that disrupted the indigenous people’s peaceful living.

VICTIM is a new group composed of surviving victims and families of the victims of injustice, communism and terrorism in Mindanao. Its growing membership includes those who survived persecutions, ambushes, assassinations, bombings, human right abuses and other infractions against humanity.

It was secretly founded at the eve of the 20th commemoration of the infamous Digos Massacre last June 25.

ANAD chides Maoist CPP’s slant as mere propaganda and lies

2009-10-04T12:59:00.000+08:00

by:Mharlon Borja
as posted in http://anadpartylist.wordpress.com/

“THIS is part of the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF’s malicious propaganda scheme,” said Tito Porras, national vice president of the Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) Partylist, in reaction to the recent statements of the Maoist communist group saying that US forces are exploiting the calamitous conditions to send in more “interventionist” troops into the country.

“In fact, a day or two after Typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila and ravaged the cities of Marikina, Pasig, Antipolo, the municipalities of Cainta and outlying provinces, calls had been made by practically all sectors of the Filipino community seeking US government’s assistance in the rescue and relief operations to supplement government’s effort,” said Porras.

He chided some quarters, especially those in the sectoral front organizations of the NDF, for making a fuzz of the US assistance saying, “Instead of injecting malice to highlight the arrival of US forces as a bane to Philippine sovereignty, Filipinos must welcome them in the spirit of humane accommodation as they are here for humanitarian consideration amidst the calamity that struck us,” explained Porras.

Returning to the Maoist CPP to a more profound question on what have they done to the Filipinos in the light of “Ondoy” and “Pepeng’s wrath, Porras slammed the Maoist communist leadership for issuing statements that are not only meaningless amid the hardship faced by our people but are clearly propaganda full of malice and ill-will, “ They continue to hit on the efforts of government with them showing not even a cinch of what they have been professing, for the past 40 years, as protectors of our people,” Porras stressed.

“In this time, where our brother Filipinos in the areas of Bicol, Southern Tagalog, Eastern and Northern Luzon areas needs whatever assistance possible, I challenge the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF to openly show the care and concern towards the Filipino people that you have been advocating in the past,” Porras said.

“Lip service and press statements on your website and to your minions in media outfits is the least wanted and are nothing. You should make good of what you’ve been saying all along, and put an end to your savagery and inhuman acts committed against the people,” said Porras.

ANAD downplays Joma’s delisting from world’s “Terrorist” list

2009-10-01T14:02:00.000+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist describe the recent European Union (EU) court’s ruling, taking-off Maoist messiah and CPP founder Jose Ma. Sison from the list of “terrorist” personalities in the world, as a simple “palliative pill” to assuage the aging 70-year old founder of the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF.

“The decision does not make him a non-Maoist communist believer or would altogether change the very persona of Joma Sison who is deeply committed to pursue his vow of using violence as a means in achieving the goals and objectives of his organization,” said Rey Salas, ANAD Partylist national spokesman, today.
“The EU court’s edict was only to stop the use of the word - - terrorist as a label against Sison. Definitely, it does not change the character and intentions of Joma,” Salas added.

Even the unfreezing of his assets by the same EU court does not give a new Jose Ma. Sison to the community of free and democratic nations of the world, said Salas as he called on all peace loving Filipinos to constantly be wary and on-guard against the surging and unflinching deception and lies spread by the sectoral front and pseudo partylist organizations, in the country.

On whether this development could spell and cause some improvement in putting an end to the country’s 40-year CPP-NPA-NDF insurgency, Salas explained, “It is only our hope but facts covering the same period unequivocally show that Joma and his peers has no intention, whatsoever, of reaching out for peace. Instead, ANAD Partylist sees the upsurge in the NDF’s malicious and venomous propaganda campaigns against government and stepped-up NPA guerilla attacks, in the countryside.”

“Our brother Filipinos, especially those who continually are victims of Maoist communist manipulation and those in the less privileged sector, must always be on-guard against the onslaught of black propaganda as a result of Sison’s delisting from the terrorist list,” Salas explained.

On the other hand, ANAD Partylist welcomed the EU court’s ruling with the hope that it will cause Joma Sison to get-out of his “protective shell” and pretensions and shall play a more active role towards the resumption of the oftenly stalled peace-talks with the government.

“Rather than going to the US not only to do some lectures but to taunt American authorities for labeling him as a terrorist, it is best for Joma to come back to the Philippines and seriously work for the resumption of the peace talks,” Salas added.

NDF Spokesperson’s Claim of Rights Violations – A Pure Lie…

2009-09-23T10:31:00.000+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City- The statement made (on Sunday, September 20, 2009 thru an emailed statement and published by Sun Star Davao on September 21, 2009 ) by Rubi Del Mundo, the spokesperson of the National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao, that more human rights violations will be committed by the military is a pure lie and tainted with deceit and pretense. The claim was made to discredit the successes the military, as a whole, had against the local terrorists in the Davao Region. They are using the recent designation of Col. Eduardo Del Rosario as Commander of the 1003rd Infantry Brigade to malign his person and leadership in view of Col Del Rosario’s successes in addressing the threats of terrorism exuded by the armed group from the NPA during his past stints as Commander of Task Force Davao and Commander of 73rd Infantry Battalion a few years back.

These terrorists fear, more than anything else, their nefarious activities, such as extortion activities, murder, grave threats against innocent civilians and other forms of crimes against public order, will be exposed before the public, curtailed if not stopped drastically, and the perpetrators of these heinous acts be put before the bar of justice. These violent acts, for all intents and purposes, are actually the violations of human rights and they themselves are the violators. The public, therefore, should be warned against the CPP/NPA/NDF so that they will not be victims of these treacherous acts and, thus, must be vigilant in order not to fall prey to their deception.

The killings perpetrated by them against innocent civilians and soldiers, they claim to a be sentence handed down by their “kangaroo court”, is merciless in nature and the alleged “conviction” is just an excuse for them to do it. In actuality, there is no legal or judicial basis for these and these are the clear violations of human rights.

Hence, what they are saying about the military, in general, and the 1003rd Infantry Brigade, in particular, is just but a façade of what the NPA are a doing. What they are afraid of is their illegal acts will be uncovered and put out in the open for the people of Davao to know. As this truth is revealed, they fear that the support or influence they have over the masses are lessened. As they thrive in areas where the local populace is supportive of them, either because they under duress or have been fooled of a false cause they are alleging, they may loose this influence and therefore be susceptible to arrest or capture. We cannot be-fault these people because they were deceived into believing that the armed group is fighting for the cause. In truth, their actions are all for their personal gain and benefit.

We have heard also of the many atrocities they have committed, such as, grave threats against those who do not want to cooperate with them; arson or bombing of cell sites, construction equipment and many more against those who do not pay them extorted money; kidnapping of civilians for the payment of ransom; and even robbery of personal belongings for their own personal use, are the violations of human right.

On the other hand, they fear also that many among their regular cadres may lay down their arms, return to mainstream society, and avail of the livelihood package the government is offering thru the Social Integration Program or SIP. The social interventions are so lucrative in view of the many opportunities it offers notwithstanding the chance for them to live a normal life with their respective families and a chance for them to productive in the community they choose to live.

The allegations of Del Mundo against Col. Del Rosario, with regard to the alleged “divide-and-rule tactics”, atrocities of a military-backed “Alamara”, coddling of a criminal, and human rights violations, are products of his imagination and are all baseless. He is making these false allegations to slander Col. Del Rosario so that his concept of operations against the terrorists will be hindered or hampered. They simply afraid that the Brigade’s ISO efforts will doubly gain ground and be a success in attaining an insurgency-free Davao Region in the near future. These will definitely hurt their illegal activities for personal gain and benefit.

Upon the assumption of command by Col. Del Rosario, he immediately pronounced the focus of the current Internal Security Operations. These are:

1) Peace and development efforts, thru the Brigade’s Civil-Military Operations, must be enhanced in order to win the hearts and minds, and confidence of the people towards government.

2) All units under the operational control of the Brigade must partner themselves with all sectors and stakeholders to be able to attain a confluence of efforts to address the threats posed by the terrorists/armed groups and, in so doing, also address the roots causes of insurgency.

3) Combat operations must be directly against the armed groups and such operations must strictly be in accordance with existing rules of engagement, policies and regulations, and with utmost regard for the respect of human rights, most especially women and children and non-combatants, and properties. Each soldier, from him and all the officers up to most junior enlisted personnel of the command, must commit himself/herself to the strict adherence to protect the people and respect their rights regardless of one’s political belief, religion, gender, age, culture, social status, and ethnic group. The concept of “Command Responsibility” shall be exercised at all levels of command. There shall be no compromise against those who violate such as all violators, if any, will be charged before a military and/or civilian court.

4) All members of the armed group/NPA, who surrender, are captured or arrested, are wounded, or are killed during operations, must be treated humanely and accorded their rights. Legal assistance will provided of them at all times.

5) Cultural traditions and customs of all peoples, IPs, Lumads, Muslims and all others alike, must be clearly understood by the troops to avoid differences and thereby avert conflicts.

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NPA MASSACRE CIVILIANS IN AMBUSH

2009-09-20T13:34:00.001+08:00

Eight-year old girl, two civilians killed in NPA ambush in Surigao del Sur
BUTUAN CITY

An eight-year old girl and two other civilians aboard a logging truck were killed after some 50 heavily armed communist-New People’s Army (NPA) rebels ambushed them along Km. 9, Barangay Pakwan, Lanuza, Surigao del Sur Friday morning.

The regional police headquarters and advance command post of the Army’s Fourth Infantry (Diamond) Division here said the victims were on board a logging truck of Surigao Development Corp. (SUDECOR) when waylaid at 6:45 a.m. today.

The ambush also resulted in the wounding critically of another civilian.

Combat troops of the 401st Infantry (Unite n’ Fight) Brigade and the Surigao del Sur provincial police mobile force had launched a hot pursuit operation against the ambushers, who were members of the CPP-NPA Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee (NEMRC).

Killed on the spot were Junnie Montinegro, 32; Paterno Iting, 30 and an 8-year old girl Christine Salahay.

The wounded was identified as Gaudencio Ablog.

All the victims were reportedly dependents of SUDECOR.

Initial report said the logging truck of SUDECOR was on its way to their logging area when the rebels waylaid them in a curve and hilly portion of the road.

After the ambush, the rebels immediately fled to nearby mountains.

Brig. Gen. Mario F. Chan, commanding general of the 4th ID and Chief Supt. Lino D. Calingasan, regional director of Police Regional Office 13 deployed their respective combat units for a wide pursuit operations against the rebels in Lanuza.

“We condemned this kind of acts because the victims were all civilians,” said Gen. Chan, adding “we will pursue them to answer this inhuman behaviour,” added Gen. Chan.

As of press time, massive pursuit operation is still going on. (PNA)

Deafening silence is loudest!

2009-09-20T11:02:00.000+08:00

TRUE to their vow of silence, the Maoist communist’s CPP-NPA-NDF refused to respond to the challenge raised by the ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM and DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist to turnover their comrades who were responsible in the ambush-killing of 3 innocent civilians and the wounding of 3 others in the town of Toboso, Negros Occidental, last July 13.

Calls not only by ANAD but the residents of Toboso and the provincial government of Negros Occidental remained unheeded despite NDF-Negros spokesman Frank Fernandez and the head of the NPA’s Guerrilla Front’s admission of their personnel’s responsibility to the incident.

ANAD, through House Resolution No. 1367 filed before with the House of Representatives dated Sept. 1, issued a strong condemnation of that gory incident and called the CPP-NPA-NDF to turnover their men to the government even as it urged the Lower House and the members of the Maoist communist pseudo partylist groups, e.g. Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Anakpawis, and Kabataan to issue the same sentiment of denouncing and condemnation.

“With Fernandez and the alleged leader of the NPA’s guerrilla front’s admission they have shed all what is left of their “masks” and must turnover their men, perpetrators of that incident, to the government for appropriate judicial proceedings before the country’s courts of law,” said Alcover.
However, Alcover said that despite the several calls and challenges made, “the Maoist communists’ character show that they would pursue giving out deafening silence with the hope that the issue would die down and thrown to oblivion,” he added.

He expressed sadness to the fact that despite several urgings by the people, “pseudo partylist members of Bayan Muna and others had forsaken them by playing the same way as what their cohorts in the Maoist communist organization do - - silence,” Alcover said.

“One cannot expect something good to come out when all of these are displayed with malice and ill-will,” Alcover explained.

“Sincerity, transparency, and honesty is what the Maoist communist sordidly lacks as they continuously seek the destruction of our country’s democratic institutions and freedoms,” Alcover pointed out.

Anakpawis Maglungsod’s cunning and distorted views hit

2009-09-09T12:00:00.002+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist described Anakpawis Rep. Joel Maglungsod’s recent statement as nuisance and malicious propaganda in reaction to the recent Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. News reports quoted Maglungsod as saying that the MOA would convert MMDA into a bunch of “armed and authorized thugs.”

ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover said that it is a normal reaction for Maoist communists, especially pseudo partylist groups like Anakpawis, “to issue such kind of rhetoric because they are only expressing a line of thought of their venerable idol – Mao Tse Tung who said: Oppose what the government does, and support what the government opposes.”

Rep. Alcover explained that this kind of posturing is common among Maoist communist sectoral front and pseudo partylist organizations and is maliciously designed to create confusion, infuse misconception, and ultimately sow hate and chaos among Filipinos against government.

It can be recalled that, last September 3, MMDA and the AFP signed a MOA making MMDA one of the reserve units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and to appropriately respond to emergencies, calamities, and national security concerns.
“As Filipinos and under the l987 constitution, aren’t we mandated to protect our country from all threats? So why is Maglungsod, like a wild animal, crying in the wilderness over an issue that he, as member of the Lower House, is duty bound to uphold and serve,” said Alcover.

Reiterating ANAD Partylist’s strong support to the peaceful campaign against all forms of threats against the freedoms and democratic ideals of our country, Alcover stressed saying, “It is our duty to rise up and be counted in defense and protection of our country and people. It is incumbent for Maglungsod, Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, and their ilk to throw away violence by sowing confusion and misunderstanding among our people.”

“The MOA does not make the MMDA an institution as what Maglungsod’s demented understanding expresses. In this trying time, especially with the peace negotiation still hanging, it would be for the best interest of our country if Maglungsod and his cohorts, in the Maoist communist pseudo partylist groups, refrain from making statements that would inflame our emotions, cause misunderstanding and confusion among our people,” Alcover pointed out.

Media want Palparan, Alcover to probe police on results of newsmen's killing

2009-09-01T11:25:00.002+08:00

DAVAO CITY – 28 Aug. 2009 - The head of a government information agency in the Davao Region on Thursday said police need to bare results of its investigation into media killings in Davao City .

Efren Elbanbuena, regional director of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), jested police probe on the killing of local journalists have been summed up in the acronym “DNA.” DNA is the medical process of identifying bodies through gene-matching with close relatives.

Elbanbuena sparked guffaws from local journalists attending a forum on press freedom in Davao City on Thursday when he spelled out DNA as “Di Namin Alam “(We don’t know).

The PIA director was one of resource speakers at the forum organized by the Tri-Media Organization for Peace and Alliance in Mindanao (Tropa) which spearheaded the 22nd anniversary of the August 27, 1987 bombing of radio station DXRA. Four radio broadcasters, including anti-communist crusader Leo Palo, were killed in the attack later claimed by the communist New Peoples Army (NPA). Two radio technicians and three civilians visiting the station also perished in the early evening assault at the station along Magallanes Street at the heart of the city.

Elbanbuena said victims of recent media killings in Davao City , like the DXRA attack, remained unsolved, referring to the 2003 murder of broadcaster Jun Pala and the 2007 fatal ambush of radioman Ferdie “Batman” Lintuan.

Until now, we are in the dark as to whether these killings are job-related or not, he said, adding there is a need to clarify if the victims were killed for other reasons than being their members of the working press, according to Elbanbuena.
What we have now is nothing but speculations, he said.

In the forum, Elbanbuena urged retired Army General and now Representative Jovito Palparan of the partylist Bantay and Representative Jun Alcover of Anad to pass a resolution in Congress asking the Philippine National Police to submit a final report on the Pala and Lintuan killings.

Palparan and Alcover were also resource speakers in the forum held at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP).

But Elbanbuena said media could avoid being next on the list of slain media if they stick to the journalists’ code of ethics make accountability and responsibility as the driving force in their commentaries.

The PIA director also urged media to form press clubs which would impose regulations on members. The media is a watchdog, but who would watch over the watchdog? he posited this question to emphasize the need for members of the press to understand that press freedom is not absolute.

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ROGER M. BALANZA
ANAD Mindanao News and Info Bureau

THE CPP-NPA-NDF AIMS TO KILL THE BANANA INDUSTRY IN DAVAO REGION

2009-09-01T11:19:00.003+08:00

DAVAO CITY, 31 Aug. 2009 – The CPP-NPA-NDF aims to kill the banana and mining industries in Southern Mindanao in order to cripple the region’s economic base and to worsen the hardship of the local people that it hoped would further advance the revolutionary condition of this part of the country.

This warped Marxist perspective explains the recent doubled efforts of the CPP-NPA-NDF Southern Mindanao Regional Committee to sabotage the Stanfilco Banana Plantation in Maragusan town, Compostela Valley Province.

About 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, August 29, some 50 heavily armed men believed to be under the NPA Guerilla Front 27 led by Francisco Saramosing alias Isko burned downed at the vicinity of Purok 11 Sitio Surigaonon, Brgy Camanlangan, New Bataan town, ComVal Province two units of container van coming from Panabo City that were scheduled to haul banana fruits from the Stanfilco Banana Plantation in Maragusan.

The armed men stopped the prime mover trucks towing the container vans and asked their drivers to alight and heads off before setting the carriers in blaze.

One of the units owned by Chua Trucking was empty but the other one owned by Javier Trucking was loaded with knockdown corrugated carton boxes to be used in casing up banana fruits.

Later in the afternoon, the Maragusan United Workers Union (MUWU), a local affiliate of the CPP-NPA-NDF front National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (NAFLU-KMU), distributed leaflets that urged its members to oppose the Stanfilco plan to absorb and to eventually regularize more than half of its banana growers’ workers, a scheme supported by the Maragusan LGU.

MUWU-NALFLU-KMU claimed that Stanfilco’s and the town mayor’s plan is “pure harassment,” “an unfair labor practice,” “a form of union busting” and “a ploy to revert the workers to contractualization.”

The truth of the matter is that the Stanfilco plan would provide security of tenure and stability of income to the current banana growers’ workers – a situation that would not help any to the bloody revolution waged by the CPP-NPA-NDF.

All workers that would be absorbed and regularized by Stanfilco would cease to be MUWU-NAFLU-KMU members and therefore they would also stopped paying monthly union dues – one of the CPP-NPA-NDF’s local sources of funds aside from the “revolutionary taxes” it is extorting from the banana growers.

Stanfilco even earnestly assumed the banana growers’ obligations to the absorbed workers when it volunteered to pay the separation fees just “to buy peace.”

The Marxist communist party is just fooling the workers when it touted the idea that it is protecting them by opposing the novel Stanfilco plan.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines conservatively estimated that the CPP-NPA-NDF earned about P3-million in revolutionary taxes from Southern Mindanao Region’s agriculture sector in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Combined with the other sectors, except for the telecommunication industry that had no confirmed data, the CPP-NPA-NDF’s so-called “tax implementing scheme” netted almost P20-million in the last quarter of 2008, intelligence estimates of the Army’s 10ID showed.

ANAD Partylist-Mindanao sees the figure as a gross understatement. For instance, it is publicly known that NPA “revolutionary tax implementors” are extorting from ordinary banana growers in ComVal, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur and elsewhere in the region at least P100 a month for every hectare of planted land. Big banana growers are extorted some P100,000 every month or so.

The CPP Central Committee reportedly considered SMR as “the mother of all regions” because of the big money it produced for the party and the advance level of its armed struggle.

In view of the situation, ANAD Partylist urged the Stanfilco banana growers’ workers to emulate the example set by the rank-and-file employees of the Marsman Estate Plantation, Inc. (MEPI) in Sto. Tomas town, Davao del Norte when they rejected the NAFLU-KMU in a peaceful certification election on June 2007, and the workers of DOLE Phillippines in Polomolok, South Cotabato who are hostage by AMADO-KADENA-NAFLU-KMU through the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement but whose hearts and minds are loudly rejecting the communist front union.

The independent Davao Marsman Labor Union (DAMLU) is now struggling to defend the rights and to promote the welfare of the MEPI workers in view of the company’s business hardship but without resorting to violence and undemocratic methods.

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Arthur J. Tariman
ANAD Mindanao News and Info Bureau

Lumad leaders, deplore exploitation of IP by local terrorists

2009-08-24T09:21:00.000+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City- Lumad leaders belonging to Mindanao Indigenous Peoples’ Conference for Peace and Development (MIPCPD) deplored the exploitation of Indigenous Communities by the local terrorists (NPA) and their legal fronts, 11am Monday.

Speaking infront of the media, Lumad leaders attending the 3rd Founding Anniversary of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division in Panacan, Davao City, emphasized the good relation between the Indigenous People (IP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the peace efforts and development projects of the government in IP communities.

Referring to news that landed on some papers, MIPCPD members led by Datu Limpatuan Joel Unad told reporters that Pasakaddag Salupungan Kalimudan (PASAKA) does not represent the whole population and sentiments of the IP. Speaking in combined Bisaya and his native Manobo dialect, Datu Unad said “People must be wary of the propaganda of some sectors falsely representing the IP and riding on issues to serve their own selfish motives. The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is the right organization that represents the whole sentiments of the IP.”

In a statement, Datu Unad stressed the need to look into violations of the rights of the IP on many angles and there must be impartiality in order to really address the issues. “We must not single out one organization like the AFP as the violator of the IP’s rights. There are blatant violations also of some private individuals, criminal syndicates and the local terrorists (NPA). The AFP is there to protect our people from these violators. We at the MIPCPD and NCIP address these issues by bringing the matter to the right agency.” Unad added.

Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu, Commander of 10th Infantry Division for his part belied claims of PASAKA saying, “These are clear propaganda of the left. The local terrorists have been violating the rights of our people repeatedly and with impunity. They have been responsible in land grabbing activities and they term it as land reform. Recently, they planted many landmines in Paquibato district in Davao City where many of our IP brothers live. Those landmines limited the movement of the people in that area. Civilians cannot do their daily activities freely without fear of stepping on those landmines.”

“We call on our people to distinguish true advocates of human and IP rights from wolves hiding in the cloak of such advocacy. We call on PASAKA to file charges on the proper courts and denounce also the many atrocities committed by the local terrorists against our people if they really represent our IP communities so that fairness, impartiality and justice will reign.” Mapagu added.

The local terrorist group NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines that is waging a forty-year rebellion and is being tagged in many human rights violations committed against civilians, particularly IP communities and its own members.

CPP-NPA-NDF ATROCITIES IN NEGROS ISLAND

2009-08-20T09:59:00.001+08:00

Kometing Rehiyon Negros (KRN)covers practically most of Negros island; 13 cities & 20 municipalities or the north and most of the central Negros parts of the island. Time & again, atrocities perpetrated by its regulars have lay siege on hapless Negrenses. Unfortunately, these regulars do not distinguish women, children or the elderly. Their reckless campaign of terror (murder, extortion, theft, robbery, kidnapping, arson, etc.) on the communities especially in the countryside has already brought so much pain, sufferings, & hardships to the civilian populace.

Following are the most recent atrocities carried out by KRN regulars against civilians (high school teens, unarmed civilians & elderly women) & soldiers conducting non-combat missions.

11IB, 3ID, PA was engaged in a non-combat mission at Trinidad, Guihulngan, Negros Occidental in the months of May & June. They were conducting civic-military operations in the area in preparation for the medical and dental missions that will be rendered by the local government of Guihulngan & the provincial Governor’s office to the residents of barangay Trinidad and its neighboring barangays.

On 23 May 2009, five (5) unarmed soldiers left their temporary patrol base at Trinidad, Guihulngan on board three rented passenger motorbikes & headed towards the Guihulngan town proper to attend to their personal matters. They were halted by more or less fifteen fully armed NPA regulars led by Magno Flores AKA Anot, Luis, Armand or Dan-dan at Sitio Busay, Hilaitan, Guihulngan. Three of the 5 soldiers (Private First Class Gonzaga, dela Torre and Bajon) were identified by the NPAs & were forced to get off the bike thus making them their captives. They were made to lie down facing the ground. Suddenly & mercilessly said NPAs shot the 3 captured soldiers at close range. To make sure that the soldiers won’t survive, they shot each of them twice on the head. They stripped the victims with their personal possessions and immediately left the site after the incident.

Another NPA atrocity occurred in the peaceful town of Toboso, Negros Occidental one Monday morning on July 13, 2009. Around twenty (20) fully armed NPA regulars under the guidance of its Regional Secretary Francisco Fernandez AKA Frank, Ibarra, Kanor ambushed the barangay Salamanca-owned mini truck which was fully loaded with unarmed civilians on their way to the town proper to carry out their livelihood. This very conveyance also regularly gives school-goers a free ride to their schools while plying its barangay Salamanca-Poblacion early morning routine.

Somewhere along its route, these fully armed NPA regulars ambushed the truck with heavy volleys of fire. The truck driver, Rodolfo Salanid Salipod, died instantly from a fatal head wound together with Edmar Balisa Sultan, a 2nd year high school student. Sexagenarian Ena Diama Pata did receive some gunshot wounds & was still alive pleaded to the NPAs for help but instead of coming to her aid, they made sure that she’s dead by shooting her again at close range.

The other three wounded civilians, sexagenarian Primitivo Viajador Lumapay, Erel Silva Baynosa & another high school student Ivy Berden Recopelacion, 15 years old, barely escaped death when they pretended to be dead after what happened to Aling Ena. They were the ones who witnessed & divulged what the NPAs did to Aling Ena.

These are but some of the atrocities carried out by the NPAs. These showcase the NPAs unjustifiable disregard for the lives of innocent civilians, women & children especially, as well as their gross disregard for Human Rights & the provisions of the International Humanitarian Law. They have become a group of criminal syndicates who prey on peace-loving & law-abiding civilians.

Soldiers seek Satur’s public apology

2009-08-19T14:48:00.000+08:00

A regional trial court on Friday, August 14, denied the privilege of the Writ of Amparo filed by three militant lawyers against military and police officers in the region. The Congressman who earlier sensationalized an “order of battle” list failed to prove his claim about the existence of said “OB List”.

Judge Jose Emmanuel M.Castillo of Branch 10 of the Regional Trial Court 11, after a careful evaluation dismissed the petition filed by lawyers Angela Librado-Trinidad, Carlos Isagani Zarate and Lilibeth Ladaga against Major General Reynaldo Mapagu, Commanding General of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division; Colonel Lysander Suerte and Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Decapia, General Mapagu’s Chief of Staff and Public Information Officer, respectively; Colonel Oscar Lactao, Task Force Davao Commanding Officer; and Davao City Police Chief Senior Superintendent Ramon Apolinario. Judge Castillo denied the petition of the respondents because the latter failed to prove, by substantial evidence, that their perceived threat to life, liberty and security is attributable to the unlawful act or omission of the respondents.
The petition stemmed from the alleged “Order of Battle” which Bayan Muna Congressman Satur Ocampo claimed he received from a “conscientious soldier”. The military respondents vehemently denied authorship of the purported “OB List” saying it does not bear the distinctive marks and security classifications that military documents normally contain”.

In ruling against the petition, the court considers the statement of Congressman Ocampo as “empty” and “hearsay” considering that he has no direct or personal knowledge on the authenticity of the subject “OB List”. For unknown reason, Congressman Ocampo did not personally testify to affirm what he stated in his affidavit and he also failed to present the “conscientious soldier” who the court says “could have possibly put petitioner’s position in a better light”. Based on the evidence presented by the petitioner, the court was unconvinced that the violent deaths of militant members Celso Pojas, Ludenio Monzon and Dr. Rogelio Peñera is in any way related to the alleged “OB”.

Colonel Oscar Lactao expressed his elation over the court’s decision which he describes as the “triumph of the truth over propaganda”. He says, “The verdict of the court sends a very clear message. All the malicious allegations hurled against the military by Congressman Ocampo, which have caused undue fear and anxiety to the respondents and unfairly besmirched the integrity of our organization, are unfounded. It is therefore incumbent upon him, being a public official who, in everything he says and does, is accountable to the Filipino people, to correct his erroneous statement and apologize for the wrong done to our soldiers and the Filipino nation.”

ANAD slams Maoist commies’ insincerity:Warns government against deception galore

2009-08-14T11:29:00.001+08:00

There is evidence of insincerity and callousness of the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF to pursue real and lasting peace in the country.

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist is more than certain that the “old swan song” of the Maoist communist-terrorists will again be heard during the forthcoming peace talks with the government.

ANAD deplores the fact that while government has manifested its commitment to achieve lasting peace by bending too-much to the demands of the Maoist communist CPP-NPA-NDF, “reciprocity is far fetched in the minds and intentions of the communist-terrorists,” said ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover as he pointed to the statement issued last week by Jorge Madlos, NDF spokesman in Mindanao.

“With Madlos saying that the NPA will continued its attacks on government installations and other soft targets, throughout the country, while the formal negotiations are held abroad, this clearly shows the double-edged tactic being displayed by the terrorists,” said Rep. Alcover.

ANAD reiterated its call on government to take the extra step of caution in the advent of the Maoist communist’s threatening statements against government. “Definitely it is in accordance with the teachings of their venerable ideologue Mao Tse Tung that a good communist is he who masters the art of deception,” said Alcover.

On the other hand, ANAD urged the government to prepare for any eventuality considering the insincerity, deceit, and lies all displayed by the sectoral front and pseudo partylist organizations of the Maoist communist-terrorist.

The call is made due to reports received by ANAD that points to the intentions and projections of the Maoist communist-terrorists in using the peace negotiations to advance their political gains in the run-up towards the 2010 elections.

“My experience in the Maoist communist movement plus the reports we received validates our claim that indeed the NDF is strongly moving to ensure the entry of their communist candidates in the higher echelons of political power,” said Alcover.

However, Alcover said that ANAD will act accordingly and appropriately to stall, if not scuttle, the plans and intentions of the Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF. “With the millions of peace and freedom loving Filipinos behind us, I know we will not fail. We are prepared for this for we already know about it beforehand,” said Alcover.

Government must be cautious in talking peace with the communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF

2009-08-13T18:23:00.001+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY Partylist calls on government to be extra cautious in the conduct of the forthcoming peace talks with the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF even as it strongly condemns the latter’s continued deception and lies against the Filipino people.

ANAD stands committed to the use of available peaceful and equitable means in resolving any and all conflict. “However, this must be anchored on the sincerity, transparency, and real commitments of both parties,” said Rep. Jun Alcover of ANAD Partylist as he chided the Maoist communist CPP-NPA-NDF for putting up a lame-duck chief negotiator who cannot decide for and in behalf of their organizations in terms of truly implementing cessation of hostilities, open declaration of actual and real members of their panel, consultants, and staff, and others.

ANAD calls on the government to challenge the NDF chief negotiator, Luis Jalandoni to bare out on his authority in leading the communist-terrorist panel. “Government must ask Jalandoni as to what authority does he bring to the negotiating table? Who appointed him as the lead negotiator when communist-terrorist CPP Chairman and Maoist messiah Jose Ma. Sison acknowledged his being a mere NDF Consultant,” said Rep. Alcover as he reiterated his earlier pronouncement that currently government is dealing with a phantom organization whose leaders do not admit or continually hide in the limbo of oblivion.

In the more than 20 years of peace talks, the military and police forces were restrained from conducting offensive operations, throughout the country, during the duration of the talks. Yet, the Maoist communist NPA continuously unleashed their brutal and treacherous ways against military and police installations, private and business facilities, and innocent civilians.

“This is aside from using the ceasefire to consolidate their forces, replenish its supplies, and strengthening its extortion activities. What happened was - - talk-talk-talk abroad, and at the same time, kill-kill-kill by the NPA, inside the country,” Alcover explained. “Factual developments of the previous negotiations showed that government was talking peace with a phantom organization represented by the lame-duck negotiator, Luis Jalandoni,” Alcover said.

On the other hand, government should be forthright in its quest to resolve the 40 years insurgency problem with the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF. One should not be complacent when dealing with groups or individuals who have already exhibited mastery in the art of deception and lies. Deception is pronounced when they profess of not being involved in the Maoist communist organization, when arrested; but immediately identified by their leadership as member, consultant, and staff of the communist panel in the peace negotiations.

Such is the case of Alfredo Mapano and Elizabeth Principe. “Indeed what a glaring deception in the highest order,” said Cong. Alcover. “Government must be wary about this repeated intentional display of astuteness by the CPP-NPA-NDF,” he added.

Meanwhile, ANAD calls on the government to be circumspect and transparent on important communist-terrorism/insurgency issues. “What happened to President Macapagal-Arroyo’s all-out-war against the Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF with a 1 billion pesos budget? Has government changed its policy of no-negotiation with any and all terrorist groups or individuals?” Alcover asked.

These are important questions that need to be appropriately responded to clear the doubts and suspicions of Filipinos clouding the resumption of the oftenly suspended peace talks.

Alcover urged government to rectify the previous imperfections in dealing with the wily Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF.

2 killed, 5 wounded in NPA landmine

2009-08-05T20:47:00.002+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City – Two soldiers were killed and five were wounded in an NPA landmine that exploded at Sitio Banban, Brgy Lumiad, Paquibato, Davao City at 2pm this afternoon.

The casualties were members of the 5th Scout Ranger Company who are part of the contingent that exhumed the cadaver of an NPA member believed to be liquidated by the ruthless Pulang Bagani Command 1 under Leoncio Pitao @ Parago. The identities of the fatalities are temporarily withheld pending notification of their families. The exhumation was conducted in the presence of his relatives and to ensure that a descent burial will be accorded to the slain NPA member. The troops carrying the cadaver were on their way to Paquibato proper when the incident happened.

MGEN REYNALDO B MAPAGU AFP, the Commander of 10th Infantry Division expressed his condolences to the family of the soldiers and the civilian whom they have exhumed and vowed to help the soldiers’ family to run after the perpetrators. “These people are heartless, they have been doing these barbaric acts with impunity and total disregard to human lives. The use of landmine has long been banned by every civilized nation and all entities whether state or none state actors are bound to respect it as enshrined in the Ottawa Convention. The NPAs clearly do not respect the International Humanitarian Law and the International Convention on Armed Conflict.” Mapagu added.

The Ottawa convention is the “mine ban treaty on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti personnel mines and their destruction. This is to put an end to the suffering and casualties caused by anti-personnel mines, that kill or maim hundreds of people every week, mostly innocent and
defenseless civilians and especially children, obstruct economic development and
reconstruction, inhibit the repatriation of refugees and internally displaced persons, and have other severe consequences for years after emplacement” the Ottawa preamble states.

There were reports that the NPA bandits operating in Paquibato District have prepositioned landmines in more that 10 areas along the main road traversing in Paquibato. These landmines are ready for detonation once there is a target of opportunity of soldiers passing by. Task Force Davao is now verifying the said reports because this will endanger the civilians or non-combatants who are using the said road.

NPAs murder CAFGU member infront of family

2009-08-05T20:30:00.002+08:00

While the Filipino nation is mourning for the death of former President Cory Aquino, NPA bandits murdered Tuesday evening a CAFGU member infront of his family inside their home in Magsaysay, Nabunturan, Comval Province.

The victim was identified as Benito Goso, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit. Report reaching the authorities states that Goso and his family were about to sleep when fully armed NPAs barged into their house shortly before 10pm and forcibly took the unarmed victim and killed him despite the plea of his crying wife and children.

MGEN REYNALDO B MAPAGU AFP, the Commander of 10th Infantry Division expressed his condolences to the family of the murdered CAFGU member and condemned the killing saying “it is the height of cowardice and the work of evil”.

“These people are merciless, such barbaric act has no place in a civilized world. They have been repeatedly violating every conceivable law of the land and they do not respect human rights. The NPAs clearly and totally put the International Humanitarian Law and the International Convention on Armed Conflict in utter disregard. It is unlawful and it is immoral to kill an unarmed individual, much more inside his home and infront of his family. They have not taken into consideration the trauma that the children may suffer. They are plain criminals without any ideology whatsoever.” Mapagu added.

Recently, Malacañang opened the door for another round of peace-talks and gave safe conduct passes to many top ranking communists.

The New People’s Army is the Armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines that is waging a 40-year rebellion for a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist state while it is plagued by many human rights abuses and reported violations of the peace-talks.

Army, PNP arrest terrorist, recover bomb making paraphernalia

2009-08-02T10:31:00.000+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City- A local terrorist responsible in the series of bombings in Maaasim, Kiamba and Maitum (MAKIMA) was arrested by joint operating troops of Army and PNP in Brgy Daliao, Maasim, Sarangani province at 1:00pm today.

The local terrorist identified as Mohammad Jaafar Maguid @ Tikboy was apprehended by elements of 73rd Infantry Battalion (73IB) and Maasim PNP by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the court for murder, destructive arson, robbery with violence against and/or intimidation of persons.

The arrested terrorist is a member of the Lawless MILF Group (LMG) and is reportedly the mastermind of the blast in Maasim a month ago that killed one civilian and wounded 32 others. Maguid is also being tagged as one of those who carried out the series of bombings in MAKIMA area that killed several civilians and wounded many others.

Seized from Maguid’s possession were firearms and war materials to include one Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Launcher, one M79 Grenade Launcher, one Carbine Rifle, one round of rocket propelled grenade, one hand grenade, one magazine for Carbine and one binocular.

Bomb making paraphernalia were also recovered from Maguid that include two bottles of black powder, one soldering iron, one cellphone, two chargers, one VHF radio and two 9-volt batteries.

In a statement Lt Colonel Edgardo Y de Leon, Commander of 73IB said, “Tikboy is one of those tasked by Ameril Umbra Kato to disrupt the GRP-MILF peace talks by carrying out terror acts in Sarangani. With his arrest, the province would have relative peace and his victims will finally get justice.”

Meanwhile, Major General Reynaldo B Mapagu, the Commander of 10th Infantry Division lauded policemen and soldiers who apprehended Maguid saying the people of MAKIMA are a lot safer now that one of the suspected terrorists will face the court of justice and will be put behind bars if found guilty.

“The crusade against terrorism does not end here. We must unite as one nation and fight all threats to our national development. We call on our people, Muslims, Lumads and Christians alike to join hands in making our community a safe place to live. There is no better way to fight terrorism than understanding and communicating peacefully with each other. Together, let us create an atmosphere of mutual respect and sympathy so that we may journey towards lasting peace in our country,” Mapagu said.

Authorities are hot on the tracks of other suspected terrorists who are responsible in the recent terror attacks in Mindanao.

NPA murders former Barangay Chairman

2009-07-26T23:55:00.000+08:00

Panacan, Davao City – Another civilian was inhumanely murdered by 10 NPA rebels under Guerilla Front 54 at crossing Lumundao, Barangay Marilog, Marilog District, Davao City early today at 9am.

The victim who sustained gunshot wounds was identified as Mr. Canoto Lumbayon, a former Barangay Chairman of Salaysay, Marilog District.

Lumbayon was on his way home from Calinan, on-board a motorcycle, together with Celso Agumay, a CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA) and Ernesto Sauyan, a member of the Civilian Volunteer Organization (CVO) of Salaysay when NPA rebels simultaneously fired towards them.

CAA Agumay who was unarmed also sustained fatal wounds that caused his instantaneous death. The latter was on his off-duty and on his way home to attend to the needs of his family. Sauyan, on the other hand, was wounded and presently undergoing treatment at Davao Medical Center.

Yesterday, July 22 at 10:30am, the NPA bandits also murdered Juan Bacharo, a Purok Leader of Barangay Banlag in Monkayo Compostella Valley and two unarmed soldiers who were facilitating the delivery of development projects in the said barangay.

At 1:30pm of same day, about seven NPA bandits, under Sentro de Grabidad (SDG), Guerilla Front 20 (GF), burned a 10-wheeler truck at Sitio Mahu, Barangay Aragon, Cateel, Davao Oriental. Said truck, owned by Maverick Construction, was flagged down while delivering supplies to development projects implemented in the area. The said company was reportedly receiving threats and extortion demands but refused to give in.

Major General Reynaldo B Mapagu, Commander of 10th Infantry Division, vehemently condemned the recent atrocities perpetrated by NPA, “It is clear enough that these criminals are anti-people and anti-development. Treacherous attacks are what they can easily do now because they cannot face the reality that they have already lost their mass base support.”

“Just like Evelyn Pitao, the sister of a well-known NPA leader in the region, they easily killed these innocent people who are public servants, law-abiding citizens and who desire to live a peaceful life in a more improved environment. These bandits are the ones who repeatedly abuse the basic rights of the people,” Mapagu added.

Army Chief dons rank of brave soldier

2009-07-21T16:50:00.001+08:00

Panacan, Davao City – No less than the Commanding General of the Philippine Army, Lt General Delfin N Bangit, donned the rank of Corporal Lemuel D Laid to Sergeant in a simple ceremony yesterday, 2:00pm, at the headquarters of Tactical Operations Group 11 (TOG11), old Sasa Airport, Davao City.

Sergeant Laid was meritoriously promoted for bravery in combat effective July 16, 2009 under the Headquarters Philippine Army Special Orders Number 136.

As the Assistant Detachment Commander, of Eden Detachment based in Toril, Laid led the strike operation as the main effort together with six CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA) last July 13, 2009 at 11:00am in Sitio Lopoy, Barangay Tungkalan, Davao City.

The said operation resulted to a 20 minutes clash with the NPA rebels and the troops recovered the following: one M14 rifle, nine back packs with personal items, two claymore mines with detonating device, assorted magazines and ammunitions, flash light, batteries, transistor radio, assorted medicines, SIM cards and documents of high intelligence value.

One NPA rebel was killed during the said fire fight while no casualties were reported on the troops.

Meanwhile, earlier on the same day, the Commander of 10th Infantry Division, Major General Reynaldo B Mapagu awarded the Wounded Personnel Medal (WPM) to Private First Class Rolan S Salibio at the Digos Provincial Hospital.

Salibio was one of those who fought with the NPA rebels and overrun the encampment of the Guerilla Front 76, Far South Mindanao Region in Sitio Lahak, Barangay Sinapulan, Columbio, Sultan Kudarat last July 18, 2009 that resulted to the recovery of three high powered firearms, claymore mines, radio, 46 combat packs, medicines and documents.

Salibio also received cash assistance to support his needs while recuperating at the hospital.

Promotion to the next higher rank and giving of awards are part of the programs and thrusts of the Philippine Army to boost the morale of the troops. “This will encourage our soldiers to be more dedicated in whatever task given to them,” said Mapagu.

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10th Infantry (AGILA) Division,Philippine Army
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Barangay Tanods of Montevista Comval unites for Peace and Order

2009-07-21T09:18:00.002+08:00

The Local Government Unit of Montevista in cooperation with 3rd Special Forces (Arrowhead) Battalion and the Compostella Valley Provincial Police Office (CVPPO) assembled all the village security forces of Montevista and organize them into the “Montevista Municipal Security Force” last July 15, 2009 at the Municipal Gym of Montevista, CVP.

About 192 members of Barangay Police Laban sa Krimen (BPLK) Tanods, from the 20 barangays of the said municipality, brought along 96 assorted firearms and attended the Recognition Program and Seminar aimed to equip the members with basic skills and knowledge needed to maintain and uphold peace and order in their areas as well as to strengthen links among the members.

The members of the “Montevista Municipal Security Force” were formally presented to the Mayor, Hon Teopista T Jauod, the PNP and Military authorities and they were recognized as the augmentation forces that can help in protecting the communities.

Mayor Jauod said, “This program was conceptualized purposely to prevent the recovery efforts of the NPA, to minimize the activities of lawless elements and to attract development in the area.”

“Likewise, this enables the local Police to account the existing members of Brgy Tanods that can protect the villages against lawless elements,” the Mayor added.

During the seminar, representatives from the PNP conducted series of lectures on Organizational Structure and the Role of Bantay Bayan..

PSI Julius A Borja, the Chief of Police of Montevista said, “This activity will show to the public and would be-investors that the threat of the NPA in the municipality of Montevista is already negligible. Likewise, only few lawless groups are left in the area and this can be easily countered by the area security system.”

Also present during the said activity were the Commanders of 3SFBn and 25IB, Lt Colonels Roylan Orquia and Gilbert Saret, respectively. They said that the initiative also shows that the people of Montevista wants peace and are united to defend their town.

“The military forces are still on standby to provide the necessary forces. We are optimistic that the recognition of the Bantay Bayan as the first line of defense will be of great help in the protection of the community against lawless elements,” said Orquia.

The LGU Officials and the locals were very thankful for the successful outcome of the activity. One of the Barangay Captains said, “We appreciate the efforts of the military who endeavors to actively pursue peace building initiatives together with the various stakeholders in the locality.”

NPA ambush security of govt projects, use civilians as shield

2009-07-13T15:49:00.000+08:00

Panacan, Davao City – Operating troops of 21st Light Armor Company (LAC), 2nd Light Armor Brigade (LABde), under the operational control of the 28th Infantry Battalion (28IB), was ambushed by 30 NPA rebels under Pulang Bagani Command (PBC) 3 along Barangay Pintatagan, Banay-Banay, Davao Oriental at 4:00pm yesterday.

The said troops were supposed to replace the personnel tasked to secure the construction of government projects when a pressurized landmine hit their vehicle that resulted to the instantaneous killing of one soldier identified as Private First Class Glen Calba and wounding two others namely, Sergeant Ronald Banyaga and Corporal Roger Enad.

Lt Colonel Ferdinand Lazaro Budeng, Commander of 28IB, led the reinforcing troops and they encountered the blocking force for 20 minutes near the ambush site. He said, “Despite being outnumbered, personnel of 21LAC displayed heroism for their spirited counterattack thereby preventing the NPA from assaulting them.”

The reinforcing troops from 28IB were able to save civilians who were on the “killing zone”. However, the withdrawing NPAs flagged down passing vehicles and took undetermined number of civilians as hostages and made them as shields during their escape.

CAFGU in Maputi Patrol Base were able engage the withdrawing NPAs at Barangay Puntalinao but prevented them to further pursue the rebels due to the presence of civilians used as human shields.

Field report revealed that prior to the said attacks, NPA rebels destroyed three electric posts that caused power interruption and inconvenience to the people. “Banay-Banay Local Government Unit has been exerting efforts to uplift the lives of the people. This is simple economic sabotage,” said Budeng.

Colonel Romeo Calizo, Commander of 1001st Infantry Brigade, has ordered for a pursuit operation after the hostages were released. He said, “The rebels cannot face the soldiers squarely. They inhumanely used the civilians as shields for their escape and this is a gross disrespect to Human Rights and a violation of the International Humanitarian Law.”

“Likewise, the Philippines is a signatory to the Ottawa Convention banning the use of landmines and under the United Nations’ Law on Armed Conflict, the uses of landmines are banned under article 809,” Calizo added.

The killed soldier was brought to Davao Medical Center for the autopsy while the wounded are recuperating at the Panacan Station Hospital.

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10th Infantry (AGILA) Division,Philippine Army
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Letter from COL. ARIEL O QUERUBIN

2009-07-11T10:56:00.001+08:00

Dear Tito,

May the Peace of Christ be with you!

I have no doubt in my mind that the Lord has all the while been preparing me for public service. I was left for dead in 1989, and He allowed me to spring back to life. I have been imprisoned as a soldier, but I fully regained the honor and right to wear a soldier’s uniform after having been awarded the Medal of Valor in 2001. As my military career was very much back on track, I was again challenged to choose between right and wrong, between honor and injustice, between good and evil.

Even as we all work for a vibrant and prosperous Philippines, my dream is for every Filipino to enjoy the essence of freedom from poverty, fear, and injustice, to feel the tangible benefits of good governance, and to live comfortably in a society that fosters the unity of the family, protects human rights, and upholds the dignity of all.

I have not had an easy life. My life story has been replete with vivid encounters with injustice poverty, corruption, and war. These painful experiences have shaped this dream. I never succumbed to the lure of material wealth. The physical, mental, and emotional hardships have been painful, but I never sold my soul.

I am fully aware that some people would insist that men in uniform should stay away from politics; that we would serve best our nation if we were fighting wars in Mindanao; that we have no business in meddling with the affairs of the state as we have been formed and trained in the rudiments of war, and not in the civil service, much less in politics. I agree but that assumes that the people who have been entrusted with the public trust have been sincere, honest, and have been true to their pledges.

As a young soldier, armed with idealism and the fire of youth, I have offered my life to defend this country from ALL its enemies. I have suffered long and hard for the principles that I hold dearly. Many of my loved ones have suffered with me – maybe not physically, but certainly have shared in the misery and hardships that I have endured. The fire of idealism still burns in me, but I have been wiser not to engage fire with fire.

With a lot of circumspection, I have decided to run for the senate in 2010. I have no political pedigree. I have no political machinery. I have no financial resources. But I do have honor. I do have principles. I do have courage.

I believe I am ready to take on this new role, with your prayers and support this dream is not too far- fetched. It takes the collective effort of every member of this society to make things improve for a country in disarray... a country that has been plundered... a country whose hope is running dry...

All I can do, on my end, is to make the best effort possible to make society better, stand by my principles, and fight for what is right. There is hope for this country and our people, all we have to do is believe.

This I will do, if not for myself and our generation, then at least for our young children and their children. My warmest personal regards and God bless us all.

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

Sincerely yours,

ARIEL O QUERUBIN
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Kindly send this to all your relatives and friends if you believe in my cause. Thanks

Digos massacre should be an engine for peace, says Rep. Alcover

2009-06-28T15:46:00.002+08:00

“We commemorate the infamous Digos Massacre not to push further the sorrow and hate among us, especially the family of the 40 victims, but to renew our commitment to achieve peace for all of us,” said ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover during the 20th commemoration of the infamous Digos massacre in Sitio Matti, Barangay Binaton, Digos City. Alcover, together with Bantay Partylist Representative Jovito Palparan Jr. led the commemoration activities there. Davao del Sur District 1 Representative Marc Cagas also graced the gathering participated by some 1,000 residents of both Sitio Rano and Matti, held at a roadside of Sitio Matti.

A commemorative marker of that gory incident, constructed through the efforts of Barangay Council of Binaton and ably supported by the officers and men of the Army’s 39th Infantry Battalion headed by Lt Col. Lyndon Paniza, was unveiled.
Last June 25, 1989, while inside a village chapel attending a Sunday service, about 40 men, women, and children were mercilessly murdered by some 120 armed Maoist communist terrorists New People’s Army (NPA) led by Amado Payot, aka Benzar. Using M-60 machineguns and armalite rifles. “Samtang nag porma sila ug letra C, ilang girapidohan mi ug gipamusil, dayon gipamutol ang ulo sa duha ka mga lalaki (While making a letter C formation, they opened fire on us then cut-off the head of two men),” said Adronico Edianon, the man, shown in many a picture of the Digos massacre, holding a head surrounded by dead children and women. Edianon is now a Barangay councilman of Binaton.

Alcover called on all Filipinos to intently reflect and learn about the real character and intentions of the Maoist communist NPA from the Digos massacre. “The Digos massacre should always remind us that indeed those who profess as protectors of human rights and justice are actually the real purveyors of death and destruction of our democratic ideals and freedoms,” he added.
Alcover and Palparan assured the residents of the area that next year’s commemoration activities shall be held right Sitio Rano, the site where it happened. “With the help of other government agencies, we will try our best to construct a road from the main highway to Sitio Rano, in time for next year’s celebration,” they assured the residents.

Later in the afternoon, some 3,000 people from Barangay Binaton and other neighboring barangays of Digos City, and some municipalities of Davao del Sur gathered at the city’s public market to protest and condemn the continued inhuman atrocities against the Filipino people.
Alcover called on the protesters to be firm and steadfast in their commitment to oppose and peaceably confront the unabated murders perpetrated by the Maoist communist NPA. “We do not believe that the problem could best be solved by bullets and guns alone. But a strong and sustained education and counter-organizing campaign of all freedom loving Filipinos is, by any measure, the best way to put a stop to their barbarism,” Alcover explained.

ORDER OF BATTLE ISSUE

2009-06-27T10:20:00.003+08:00

Satur Ocampo did it again!

Just as the campaign against the insurgent rebels by the military is gaining headway, its legal fronts and known personalities with clear links to the left are maligning the Armed Forces in order to ease the pressure of government troops against their guerilla fronts which are waging the armed struggle in the suburbs. The order of battle as they claim to have purportedly include list of men targeted allegedly by the military is just but a doctored document tailor-fitted to their own advantage and maliciously done to discredit the reputation of the troops who are gradually gaining the trust and confidence of the people of Davao region particularly Compostela Valley province.

The International Solidarity Mission’s (ISM) supposed tour of Compostela province is not aimed on knowing the truth about the plight of the masses nor uncovering what murderous organizations or groups are killing our own people. Fact of the matter is, the ISM is doing international solidarity works in favor of the rebels as it is their sworn commitment to help communist insurgents and rebels around the world.

We are not an ignorant nation. In this age of information technology, one needs only to browse on the web to clearly know the doctrine of communism and the inner workings of communist strategy in subverting nations with existing democratic society and turning it into a socialist one through a bloody revolution in preparation to the final leap to communism. Their doctrine clearly states that in order to win the revolution, an active insurgent organization must use legal fronts to mask their identities and provide shield to their armed component that is waging war against the duly constituted government.

It is also the works of these legal fronts to expose, bloat and capitalize on purported violations of the armed forces of any nation they are trying to subvert. This, in the eyes of the common people is a necessary instrument so that the rights of both insurgents and government troops will be protected. But looking deeper into their mandate, nowhere can you find any provision that states what actions they will do in case a violation was committed not by the military but by the insurgents whom they have sworn to protect.

The people must realize that these front organizations which in this case is the ISM, is not mandated to look after supposed violations of human rights and protect the innocent. Looking at the past and present actions they have taken, we can surmise that their true function is to single out the armed forces of the host country in any case of violation of the rules of war and sensationalize it so that the active insurgents can use such issue against the existing legitimate government.

As if we have not heard enough, but these legal fronts do not only sensationalize and tailor-fit issues against the existing government in favor of the insurgents. The worse is their orchestrated move to hide any violation of human rights and rules of war by the active insurgents. They not only turn a blind eye in such cases but provide active legal shield to communist rebels who have severely violated every law of the land including human rights and the generally accepted principles of humanitarian law. Their true mandate is to condition the minds of the people that the government is evil and its instrument of aggression is the military which it uses to oppress the masses. In this light, these front organizations thus curve the perception of the people in hating the government, the military and all duly constituted authorities.

Satur Ocampo and the others did it again!

Nowhere can you find that ISM or any legal front organizations ever condemned the CPP/NPA/NDF in any summary killings they have committed even if the NPAs publicly admitted to such offenses. The NPAs are doing the killings with such impunity and with total disregard to the rights of the people they have summarily executed (some in front of their loved ones or even some killed by their loved ones, take the case of Father Balweg who was killed by his own brother). Such is the sad state of our nation that these killers roam around our barangays in the far flung areas and lording over the common people who cannot do otherwise but to succumb to their oppressive power. A coercive power that is left unchecked by those wolves masquerading as human rights advocates.

We do not condemn the true and legitimate human rights advocates either individually or as an organization. We hail and praise them to the highest degree and pray that they may stumble into the mine of truth for the sake of justice for all those innocent men, women and children whom the CPP/NPA/NDF have violated, tortured and killed without the benefit of a true and fair trial.

In Davao region alone, there is a record of 364 cases of summary executions done by the CPP/NPA/NDF whom they admitted to have carried out in service to the people?! We might be a forgiving nation but our memory is sharp and we cannot forget the barbaric massacre the NPAs have committed in Digos, Davao Del Sur exactly twenty years ago where they killed (some beheaded) a total of 39 innocent men, women including children and old folks in Sitio Rano, Brgy Binaton in June of 1989.

Now lets come back to the order of battle. Who now has a real order of battle which include killing of innocent people in all walks of life?
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CONTRIBUTED BY A FELLOW PRO-DEMOCRACY ADVOCATE

DIGOS MASAKER: 20 anyos nang naghihintay ng katarungan

2009-06-19T19:07:00.002+08:00

Masagwa man sanang tingnan, pero ang mga larawang inilathala dito ang s’yang aktwal na resulta ng walang awang pamamaslang ng mga NPA. Nangyari ito noong Hunyo 25, 1989. Tatlumpu't siyam (39) kasapi ng United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) ang mga nabiktima.

Ito ang istorya.

Naganap ang insedente sa maaliwalas na baybaying munisipalidad ng Digos, Davao del Sur. Kakahulagpos lamang ng buong CPP-NPA-NDF sa malagim na epekto ng kanilang ‘panloob-na-paglilinis’ o purging operations na kung saan maraming mga “kasama ang pinagpapatay ng kapwa mga kasama” sa hinalang ang mga ito’y deep penetration agents ng Gobyerno.

Isang pangkat ng 18 kasapi ng mga NPA ang nagpapatrulya sa halos nababalot ng usok (dahil sa fogs) na kagubatan sa pamumuno ni Ka Maya. Nanunoot sa balat ang lamig. Ngunit bigla silang nakaramdam na parang may isa pang grupong armado sa di kalayuan. Pumwesto ang tropa at nag-abang.

Maya-maya, merong ngang pulutong ng mga armadong dumaan at hindi nila mamumukhaan sapagkat balot ng fogs ang kapaligiran. Sa mandu ni Ka Maya –pinaulanan nila ito ng bala. Pagkatapos ng putukan, 17 sa target ang patay. At ang malaking disgrasya –mga kasama din nila itong NPA!

Balisa’t hindi alam ni Ka Maya kung ano ang gagawin. Batid n’ya na malapit lamang sa kanila ay may isa pang grupo ng mga NPA na kumikilos sa pamumuno ni Ka Lolong.

Nataranta si Ka Maya at tumakbo na ito para tumakas lamang mailigtas ang sarili. Umaabot siya sa isang maliit na kapilya ng UCCP. Sa isip n’ya, ligtas s’ya dito kung makipaghalo sa mga mananampalataya.

Nakaresponde agad sa pinangyarihan ng ‘engkwentro’ ang pulutong ni Ka Lolong. Dangan nga’t kabisado nila ang mga pasikot-sikot ng lugar, madali nilang nasundan ang pinaroroonan ni Ka Maya.

Pagbungad sa simbahan, na kung saan may nagaganap na pagsasamba - agad itinanong ng mga NPA kung nasaan na si Ka Maya. Ngunit tumahimik lamang ang mga tao sa loob ng simbahan. Umaalimpuyos naman sa galit si Ka Lolong kahit na ang karamihan sa loob ng simbahan ay mga kamag-anak pa niya mismo.

Habang pinagmuni-munihan ni Ka Lolong kung ano ang nararapat gawin, bigla na lamang pinaulanan ng bala ng kanyang mga kasama ang mga tao sa loob ng simbahan.

At nangyari ang malagim na trahedya. 39 ang patay –babae, lalake, bata at matanda –lahat namatay ng walang kalaban-laban sa bangis ng mga punglo ng NPA!

Sa patakaran ng NPA – kung may napatay kang kasama, buhay mo ang kabayaran at ganun din sa mga sibilyan na kumukupkop ng kaaway ng kilusan.

Ito ang istorya ng Digos, Masaker.

Ang kasong ito ay ipinaabot sa NDF pero wala ding nagyari hanggang ngayon. Ayon kay Satur Ocampo, ng Bayan Muna –isa na itong saradong kaso! Wala ding ginawa ang CHR.

Sa paggunita ng ika-20 anyos na anibersaryo nitong karumal-dumal na krimen – makakamtan pa kaya ng mga pamilya ng biktima ang hustisya?

Press Statement of Samahan Ng Mga Biktima Ng Komunista (SABIK), Samar Chapter

2009-06-19T17:05:00.000+08:00

In his press release on June 10, 2009 [read press release], Mr. Salas “slammed the AFP for old gimmick,” base on his one-sided judgment, and “calls for immediate release of child soldier.”

It seemed that the NDF-EV, through its famous prevaricator, Mr. Salas is at first evading the real issue. Instead of answering the issue why the NPA has in its rank a child soldier, Mr. Salas immediately assailed the AFP as having “abducted the child for psywar purposes.” Is it really possible for the AFP to abduct a child and teach him how to (confidently) assemble and disassemble a rifle within a very short period of time?

Apparently, Mr. Salas’ press statement was meant to ACCUSE in order to avoid being ACCUSED of an obvious violation. For a seasoned liar and protector of the terrorist NPA like Mr. Salas, it would be easy for him to accuse the AFP than to answer questions surrounding the continuous recruitment by the NPA of children for their terrorist movement.

While the AFP may also have shortcomings, it appeared that this time it is more believable and credible than Mr. Salas. Someone who had the opportunity to talk and deal with the former “NPA Child Soldier” had observed the spontaneity of the child’s responses to various questions regarding his stay with the NPA. The child, accordingly, gave vivid details of his experiences and ordeal with the NPA that it is impossible for someone to believe that he was coached to reveal those details. It’s a pity that a child like him has been taught by the NPAs to carry and fire guns when he is supposed to be school learning how to read and write with other children of his age. Obviously, as the child has confided, there are many children now being lured and recruited by the NPA, so it is timely to ask Mr. Salas and the NPA to please have the conscience to spare the children from your nasty aim of amassing wealth and power.

Characteristically, Mr. Salas called on advocates of human rights and children’s right to investigate about the child in his press release. If there is any which would heed that call, it would be the Karapatan, which has a record of making investigation to malign the AFP when the NPA is already feeling the heat of AFP operations. Mr. Salas’ call for investigation is to prevent the obvious from looking more obvious. It is suspected that Mr. Salas did it so that when Karapatan conducts the investigation, it would not appear that such investigation is already premeditated and design by Mr. Salas and Karapatan to destroy the AFP and the soldiers- as they have done it many times before.

For Mr. Salas, this is a curious question. Can you invoke other things, aside from Oplan Bantay Laya, Con-Ass, etc, as reasons that you can use to fool the people into believing your purported “selfish” cause?
Thank you Mr. Salas, and again it is hoped that you prosper in telling your own twisted version of the truth!

Reference:
Ann Ocenar, Spokesperson, SABIK-Samar Chapter
17 June 2009

Laak Bantay Bayan, a unified effort of LGU, DILG, PNP Laak and Army’s 3rd SF Battalion

2009-06-17T21:12:00.000+08:00

Laak, Compostella Valley - The Local Government Unit (LGU) of Laak in cooperation with the 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3SFBn) and the Compostella Valley Provincial Police Office assembled all Bantay Bayan of Laak Municipality at the Laak Municipal Gym last June 12, 2009.

The activity started with a registration of the participants from the different barangays of Laak wherein about 1,300 members of the Barangay Police Laban sa Krimen (BPLK) Bantay Bayan brought along a total of 226 assorted high and low-powered firearms.

The participants attended the seminar prepared for them which was aimed to equip them with the basic skills and knowledge in order to maintain and uphold peace and order in their areas as well as to strengthen links among the members.

Representatives from the PNP, military and from the LGU conducted series of lectures on Organizational Structure and the Role of Bantay Bayan.

Lt Colonel Roylan Orquia, Commander of 3SFBn said, “This activity is also conceptualized purposely to prevent the recovery efforts of the NPAs and to minimize the activities of lawless elements in the area.”

“When peace and order is established in the municipality, this will help the LGU and other stakeholders to deliver the basic social services and development projects in conflict-affected areas,” Orquia added.

Meanwhile, the activity enabled the authorities to account the existing members and firearms of Bantay Bayan who could help protect the villages against lawless elements.

Hon. Reynaldo B. Navarro, Municipal Mayor of Laak graced the occasion as keynote speaker. The mayor distributed green t-shirts printed with Laak Bantay Bayan. He said, “This is to motivate them to be more vigilant and to help in protecting the security and the enforcing against armed threats.”

“The green t-shirt symbolizes a new beginning for the people of Laak for unity and progress,” Navarro added.

Also present during the said activity were PNP personnel of ComVal led by S/SUPT Ronald N. Dela Rosa, the Provincial Director and other military personnel.

At lunch time, a traditional military “boodle fight” was shared by everyone to instill camaraderie among the participants.

The LGU officials and the locals were very thankful for the successful outcome of the activity. One of the Bantay Bayan members said, “We appreciated the efforts of the military who endeavors to actively pursue peace building initiatives together with the various stakeholders in our municipality.”

The military is optimistic that the recognition of the Bantay Bayan, as the first line of defense, will be of great help in the protection of the community against lawless elements.

Addendum to the continuing atrocities of Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF, condemned by 8ID army chief

2009-06-15T12:18:00.000+08:00

TACLOBAN CITY – Major General Arthur Tabaquero, commanding general of the 8th Infantry Division based at Camp Lukban, Catbalogan, Samar, condemned the brutal attack and heartless killing of two soldiers and 2 civilians and the wounding of another soldier, at 1:30 in the afternoon of May 30, in Barangay Polangi, Catarman town, allegedly, by the members of the New Peoples Army operating in Northern Samar.

Adona Lira, a young mother who was about four months pregnant and her less than two years old daughter Shifra Ann Lira, went to the temporary detachment of the 20th Infantry Battalion section at Barangay Polangi, Catarman, Northern Samar in the morning of May 30, 2009, to visit her husband who is a soldier belonging to the detachment, and also to get the salary of her husband.

Little did Adona know that it would be the last time to be together as a family; and that was the last chance for her to see her loved ones.

About 50 communist terrorists aboard two privately-owned Isuzu Elf trucks and one dump truck, parked in front of the detachment at about 1:30 in the afternoon and all at once, threw grenades and fired high-powered rifles at the temporary detachment of the surprised troopers of the 20th Infantry Battalion section.

Adona and two other soldiers died, while her soldier husband and her less than two years old daughter were wounded and brought to a hospital in Tacloban. Unfortunately, the innocent child, Shifra Ann, died at the hospital.

“Victimizing innocent civilians is a clear violation of the agreement on Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIL) and a brazen violation of Humanitarian International Law,” MajGen. Tabaquero said.

“The military is now conducting hot pursuit operation on the perpetrators of the merciless crime,” MajGen. Tabaquero intimated. The owners of the private vehicles used have already been identified, he added.

The commanding general also called on the public to provide information on the whereabouts of those behind this ruthless attack, so that they could be brought to justice and so that they will no longer be able to repeat the brutal act.

The commanding officer disclosed that a section of the 20th Infantry Battalion based at Calbayog City was temporarily assigned at Barangay Polangi, Catarman, Northern Samar upon the request of the Northern Samar PENRO because of alleged illegal logging activities and NPA citing in the area. (article from PIA8)

Maoist way of celebrating Philippine Independence: NPA burns Globe tower

2009-06-12T18:23:00.000+08:00

Camp Panacan, Davao City – The NPA rebels burned another Globe communication site in Barangay Macangao, Lupon, Davao Oriental last night at 11:00pm.

The said burning happened when everyone is preparing for the 111th Philippine Independence Day celebration today.

Field report revealed that more than 10 rebels under Guerilla Front 18 of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee forcibly broke in the fenced tower by cutting the wires of the gate and destroyed the padlock.

“No resistance occurred as there were no security personnel at the time of the incident. The rebels destroyed the tower equipments and eventually burned it using gasoline”, said Second Lieutenant Isis Achanzar, the Public Affairs Officer of the 28th Infantry Battalion (28IB) based in Barangay Poblacion in Lupon.

“Ang kanilang ginawa panahon sa pagdiriwang ng ating kalayaan ay nagpapatunay na hindi nila ito nirerespeto. Pinapakita din nila na hindi sila ayon sa progreso o pagasenso ng Davao Oriental sa pagsira nila sa milyong halaga ng nasabing Globe tower. Ito ay simpleng pagtaboy sa mga investors na nagbibigay ng hanap buhay sa mga tao,” added Achanzar.

Globe Communications was known to be a non-supporter of the revolutionary taxation of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

Meanwhile, Lt Colonel Leo Lazarro Budeng, Commander of the 28IB has directed his troops for a pursuit operation immediately after the reported incident and he has set-up checkpoints at strategic areas to block possible route of withdrawal of the rebels.
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Army troops recover firearms, explosives and one NPA dead

Camp Panacan, Davao City – Operating troops from 1001st Infantry Brigade encountered more than 30 NPA rebels under Guerilla Front 2 in Sitio Lantawan, Barangay Napnapan Pantukan, Compostela Valley Province at 2:45pm today.

The troops were able to overrun the harbor site of the NPAs which was laid with anti-personnel (pressurized) mines.

Recovered at the encounter site are one M16 (Colt) and one M14 (Winchester) rifles, one set rigged C4 Improvised Explosive Device (IED), one set rigged Claymore mine IED, detonating cords, blasting caps, one ICOM radio with name “Pulang Bagani Command Alex” and one PNP security tag of APEX mining with pass ID #0001.

The said encounter was the result of the continuous pursuit operations conducted by the unit after the troops overrun an NPA encampment also in Bgy Napnapan last June 2 wherein the troops recover three high-powered firearms.

No reported casualty on the troops while one dead NPA was left by the fleeing rebels.

Meanwhile, local residents reported to the troops that they saw more than 10 NPA members that were wounded while being carried along by their comrades using three “habal-habal”, a commuter motorcycle.

Field report revealed that the same group of rebels was responsible during the raid of APEX mining in Maco town last May 29 wherein they were able to seized five high-powered firearms from the mining guards.

Colonel Romeo Calizo, Commander of 1001st Brigade said, “We will continually track down these lazy bandits and make them responsible for the crimes they have committed to the people. They are nothing but band of criminals who make extortion activities as their way of living.”

The 10th Infantry Division recently encountered the NPAs in Sitio Cabuley, Bgy Kapatagan last June 8 that resulted to the recovery of three high powered rifles, capture of one NPA member and discovery of their encampment.

Major Reynaldo Mapagu said, “The support of the civilians in the area was the key to our success. This simply means that the general public wants peace and progress, not an armed struggle.”

HR1109 should be viewed in a wider context and not only on PGMA’s term extension, says Rep. Alcover

2009-06-10T13:53:00.000+08:00

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) calls on all Filipinos to take a serious look on the need to amend some provisions of our Constitution and not harp solely on the issue on the extension of the term of office of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The main issue here is not President Arroyo but on what is best for our people and country. I voted in the affirmative for House Resolution 1109 to make our constitution more attuned and responsive to the call of the times.

ANAD believes that putting in place a Unicameral System or a Federal form of government could be the best move to make as these would save more than enough funds that the government could use to strengthen our democratic institutions and people’s well being. In the present bicameral system, the upper house or the Senate, aside from practically unnecessary duplicating the legislative functions with the House of Representatives, could be a good avenue for corruption especially during elections where each candidate conducts a nationwide campaign for a seat in the Senate. This entails a lot of money to spend. The next question then would be – How would these candidate recover the money they used during the campaign? The present presidential-bi-cameral form of government is definitely weak. Obviously, this breeds corruption from the top to the lowest rung of governance.

A federal form of government is also a wise and good move considering the devolution and decentralization of power and authority from the seat of national governance to the different regions of the country.

The issue of PGMA’s possible extension of office is an issue raised and twisted to high heavens by the Maoist communist agitators and pseudo partylist groups because:
1. They abhor and disliked a change in our constitution, either in form or substance. Any change of system would negate all of their intentions and motives in conducting street protests and other anti-government actions;
2. The demented minds of Maoist communist agitator-propagandists’ choice is to constantly target PGMA because they prefer the present set-up of government in support to their political aspiration of putting 3 of their cohorts in the Senate, through their communist front political party MAKABAYAN. If this happens, it is just a few steps away from the penultimate position of power in government; and
3. They wanted this condition because it feeds on their appetite to sow discontent, disinformation, and public disorder among Filipinos and even the international community of nations.

Why are those against HR 1109 harping on this concern if they believe that the President does not have the support of the majority of the Filipinos? Why were the Maoist communist agitators, especially those in the pseudo Partylist groups, silent and never protested nor questioned then President Corazon Aquino’s appointing members of the Constitutional Commission in l986 and not truly reflective of the people’s mandate? The truth of the matter is that they are afraid of their own shadow. This is the very same shadow that they themselves created! They are now totally out of touch with reality. Their only motivation is putting in place a situation in furtherance of their own revolutionary agenda.

Let us admit the fact that there are flaws in the l987 Constitution. These flaws need our immediate attention and action to be able to respond to the demand of our people and the call of the time. We should rise up forthwith not because of our emotions but for a more noble purpose of not allowing the Maoist communist CPP-NPA-NDF to exploit the issue.

The current situation is very serious and critical. Indeed, our country needs people who can readily stand up and ably respond to the demagoguery wrought by the Maoist agitators who have successfully influenced different sectors of the Filipino community, to include the religious.

Truly enough, ANAD will not be surprised to see these personalities on the streets during the mass actions during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address on July 27 and chanting anti-Charter change and other anti-government slogans.

It is high time that I call on the members of the House of Representatives who voted affirmative to HR 1109 to come out into the open and explain their respective position. We have our sworn duty and obligation to explain this to our people. A united front on pro-charter change must be established and mobilized to explain to the people the whys, wherefores, and other imperatives appurtenant to HR 1109 and not to leave it up to any one man alone.

The same call holds true for government and all freedom loving Filipinos. There is only way to enlighten our people. This will only happen if we “come out of our own cowardly shells.” Our continued silence is only what the enemies of freedom and democracy wanted.

We must always be reminded of British statesman Edmund Burke who said - - - ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING.

Bukas na Liham ni Lerma "Ka Liway" Bulaklak

2009-06-05T12:22:00.000+08:00

Note: Matagal nang pinadala sa akin ang liham na ito. Kung'baga'y, mukhang naalikabukan na ito sa taguan. Muling inilathala ko ito ngayon para maging 'sulo' na sana'y makapagbigay liwanag sa mga posibleng mabiktima pa ng panlilinlang ng mga maoistang komunista...)

Ako si PFC LERMA DIA BULAKLAK tubong Guinyangan, Quezon. Isa po akong dating kasapi ng NPA na kumilos sa lalawigan ng Quezon at kilalang kilala sa tawag na KA LIWAY. Ang bukas na liham na ito ay hindi lamang po para sa aking mga dating kasamahan sa kilusan kungdi para rin po sa aking mga kababayan. Nawa ay mayroon kayong matutuhan sa aking mga naging mapait na karanasan.

Isang batang mahirap lamang ako, anak ng mga magsasaka, noong panahon na iyon, masaya ang aming pamilya kahit nakakaramdam ng pagdarahop ang naging mahalaga kami ay sama-sama. Isang araw, nabago ang takbo ng aming buhay, may dumating na mga armado sa aming barangay na inakala naming tutulong sa amin at siyang magiging instrumento ng pag-unlad ng aming buhay. Ang masakit “akala” lamang ang lahat.

Labing anim na taong gulang ako nang tuluyan na akong sumapi sa armadong kilusan, naniwala na ang rebolusyon ang magiging solusyon sa aming kahirapan. Sa loob ng anim na taon nagsilbi ako at hindi lamang ako kungdi ang aking buong pamilya sa samahan sa paniniwalang sila ang magiging katuwang namin sa aming kahirapan. Mula sa isang simpleng pulang mandirigma umakyat ako sa pinakamataas na posisyon bilang Pampulitikang Giya. Nakapag-asawa na rin ng isang armado na Kadreng Militar ng lalawigan ng Quezon.

Subalit tumagal ang panahon maraming katanungan ang umuusbong sa aking murang isipan. Pagsisilbi, pagsisilbi ang mga katagang ito ang itinanim sa aming mga isipan. “Simpleng pamumuhay, masigabong pakikibaka”. . . totoo naman namuhay kami ng simple pero sa simpleng pamumuhay na yon ultimo kakainin namin ay sa taumbayan pa namin kinukuha, mga bagay na kabalintunaan sa mga teyoryang aming pinag-aralan.

Unti-unti nagliwanag ang aking isipan, katulad ng aking kapatid na si Ka Rado/Ka Erwin na namulat sa tunay na kamulatan at sumuko sa pamahalaan. Ang aking ama na inginuso rin ng kapwa namin armado sa mga sundalo para mapatay sa isang engkuwentro. Ang lahat nang ito ay nakatulong sa aming mag-asawa para muling pag-aralan ang aming pagsapi sa kilusan.

Dahil sa mga pangyayaring nabanggit ko, tuluyan na ring nagdesisyon na sumuko at magbalik loob sa pamahalaan ang aking asawa na kilalang kilala sa Bondoc Peninsula na si Ka Eugene. Sa katotohanan, nauna ang aking asawa na magliwanag ang nagdilim na kaisipan. Una niyang nakita na malaking kahangalan lamang ang ginawa naming pagsapi sa kilusan, na walang katotohanan ang aming ipinapangako sa taumbayan, na huwad na pangarap ang aming mga sinasabing pangarap na pag-unlad sa bayan. Ang lahat ay kahungkagan.

At dahil dito gusto ko pong linawin sa taong bayan kung bakit ako umalis sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan, dahil naniwala po ako noong una na ang rebolusyon ang tanging solusyon sa pundamental na problema ng sambayang Pilipino, sumapi ako at ang aking buong pamilya.

Subalit sa loob ng anim na taong ipinamalagi ko doon napatunayan kong ang aming ipinaglalaban ay hindi para sa kapakanan ng mahirap kundi para ito sa mga pinuno lamang namin. Kaming mga armado ang gumagawa ng paraan para makapanghingi ng tulong na materyal at pinansiyal, tulong na sa aking pagkaka-alam ay dapat na mapakinabangan ng masang mahirap na aming ipinaglalaban. Pero ang tulong din na ito ay sa mismong masang mahirap na Pilipino naming kinukuha at ipinapadala sa sentro, sa nakatataas na organo. Maliwanag na hindi para sa mahirap ang aming ipinaglalaban kungdi para sa mga namumuno ng kilusan na galing sa hanay ng mga peti burgesyang pinaniwala kaming ang digmaan ang siyang solusyon sa dusta naming kalagayan.

Sa pagbabalik loob sa pamahalaan sinikap ko at ng aking asawa na makapagbagong buhay. Pumasok ang aking asawa bilang isang CAFGU upang maitaguyod ang aming pamilya nang maayos at mapayapa. Sabi nga niya masarap ipakain sa aming mga anak ang aming pinagpaguran hindi pinaghingian at pinagnakawan. Pero malupit ang kilusan, sa kabila ng katotohanang nais na naming mamuhay nang matahimik at nagsisikap sa sariling sikap hindi ito malugod na tinanggap at ikinatuwa ng dati naming mga kasamahan.

Alas siete ng gabi, FEBRUARY 5, 1994 pinasok ng dalawang kabataang lalaking armado ang aming tahanan, sa harap ng aking biyenan at dalawang anak pinaulanan na lamang ng walang patumanggang bala ng armalite ang aking asawa. Ang masakit pati na ang aking walong taong gulang na panganay ay nadamay, tinamaan ito at muntik nang mamatay. Sa tulong ng mga kasundaluhan na agad na rumesponde sa aming tahanan nadala ang aking asawa at anak sa pagamutan. Hindi na umabot nang buhay ang aking asawa sa pagamutan samantalang ang aking panganay na anak ay nakikipaglaban kay kamatayan.

Ilang araw matapos ang ginawang pagpasok at pagpatay sa aking asawa may mukha pang bumalik ang mga kasaping armado sa barangay at kinausap ang aking biyenan. Hindi daw nila ako pinatay dahil buntis ako ng walong buwan at wala daw silang intensiyon na barilin ang aking anak, nadamay na lang daw ito. Sinabi pa ng mga kasama na “PAGPASENSIYAHAN NA LANG DAW ANG PAGKAKADAMAY NG AKING ANAK SA GINAWA NILANG PAGPATAY SA AKING ASAWA.”

Ganun na lang, magpasensiya na lang daw kami at hindi nga daw sinasadya, inakala ng aking mga dating kasamahan na magsisilbing babala ito sa akin at sa aking buong pamilya. Subalit ang pagkamatay ng aking asawa ang siya ring nagtulak sa akin na patunayan sa pamahalaan ang aking pagbabago. Sa awa ng Dios nabuhay ang anak ko sa tulong na din ng mga sundalong nagdala sa amin sa V. Luna Hospital.

Inakala ng mga NPA na matatakot na akong magsalita dahil sa ginawa nila sa pamilya ko subalit ako ay lalong nagpakatatag sa aking paninindigan na harapin ang tunay na kaaway at ilantad ang buong katotohanan. Dahil kami lang na galing sa kilusan ang makakapagpatunay kung ano ang aming pinanggalingan. Kaya muli narito ako upang harapin ang magandang bukas kapiling ang aking mga anak sa kabila ng pagbabanta ng aking mga dating kasamahan. Pero nais kong iparating sa inyo na ang katotohanan ay di kinatatakutan bagkus ito ay dapat na malaman ng buong sambayanan at sana ay kapulutan ng tamang aral.

Kaya inaasahan ko na ang kasaysayan ko ay nagsisilbing hamon at gabay sa mga taong gustong magbagong buhay. Di dapat katakutan ang kamatayan, ang mahalaga tunay kang bayani ng ating bayan.

The UNSEEN PLAN of the Puppets of MAO

2009-06-05T12:17:00.000+08:00

(Note: Contribution from NADFFI - National Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Foundation, Inc.)

A rising communist hunger for recruitment is seen being done among the children, the out-of-school youth and the labor sector. This is because the CTM is losing in their People’s Protracted War (PPW) so that they are short of quality cadres, red fighters and party members. This development is brought about by so many reasons both in the local and the international.

Locally, the CPP is not able to proselyte and recruit from the students and the ilustrados whom they wish to lure and believe in the communist ideology. Additionally, the recent thrust of the AFP to inoculate the urban areas and sectors from the ideological encroaches of the communist political works exacted a great toll on their PPW. The party-list alone suffered a decrease of votes from 27 percent down to 16 percent as the people learned of their sinister plan.

There is neither hope for the communist movement in the political arena nor in the finance to sustain it because, internationally, their assets are already freezed being tagged as a foreign terrorist organization by both the US and the EU.

The fact that there is no more Russia and China to push for the communist dream to dominate the world the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is simply losing the chance to send scholars to schools of its own kind like the Lenin School of Russia. This is one of the reasons why there were good cadres before compared to today. In the absence of this there is obviously a dearth of real communists around the world and JOMA SISON would want this resurrected from the dead.

Given these developments the obvious and last course of action for the CPP, the New People’s Army (NPA) and the National Democratic Front (NDF) in order to prevent its death is to recruit children as combatants and rescue their political prisoners. The purpose is to redoubt the dwindling number of the NPA and use these as their goons in the next political exercise come 2010. This is the only way where they can be able to survive-concentrate in the political struggle. As long as the six devils in congress, one already locked up in the bottomless pit, are not renouncing their Maoist faith these are never humane and tamable. They will continue to deceive, steal and kill people.

The secret is they can easily convert one labor or student proselyte into a hardcore NPA once this is immersed and exposed to the radicalizing elements of the revolution through rallies and demonstrations. Everyone will have to take note for this because the political struggle is just a way to produce the means–armed men–to wrest power from the government in the end. Let not the AFP be deceived into believing that at the end of the day it is still the NPA that they will have to fight!

Do not be a fool. For if you have seen the movie about the Dinosaur coming into America and laid eggs at the Madison Square Garden the best solution was to bomb the nest or eggs before it becomes a baby dinosaur. Maglagom Kamo! Why make yourselves preoccupied with killing NPAs (body count syndrome) as if this is the first priority or top solution?

Undeniably, killing NPAs is part of the solution but never omit the weightier matters involved in the war against the communist insurgents on the ideological, political and organizational (IPO) work. Hit the Dinosaurs in their nest which is the political struggle. This is what the AFP missed doing for so many years now and I will have yet to see it come.

http://nadffi.org.ph is the official website of the National Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Foundation, Inc. (NADFFI).

NADFFI attempts to expose the CPP-NPA-NDF's untold secrets if only to make the whole world know that the Philippine government will never relent to any communist pressures as it is challenged once again to fight its long defeated enemy frontally on Philippine soil, and diplomatically, in the Netherlands where the leaders of the enemy have taken refuge, a cowardice act; and for the Philippine government to decidedly finish that fight.