Battle-weary AFP Troops Going Berserk in the Countryside (19 AFP Troops Dead, at least 20 Wounded in the Surigao del Sur-Davao Oriental Border Offensives)
Roel Agustin II
Conrado Heredia CommandSpokesman
Front 20 Operations CommandNew People's Army-Southern Mindanao October 05, 2008
In the last two weeks of September, the Brigade-size military operations by the composite 36th Infantry Battalion, Division Reconnaissance Company, 67th Infantry Battalion, Scout Rangers Company of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police's 1105th Provincial Mobile Force were hit head-on in the series of tactical offensives by the Red fighters under the Conrado Heredia Command of the Front 20 Operations Command of the New People's Army. Killed in these series of tactical offensives were 19 AFP troops; at least 20 were also wounded.
Yet, ironically, in the comforts of his air-conditioned Davao City Headquarters, Eastern Mindanao Command's Maj. Armand Rico of the AFP is getting paid handsomely to tell lies and issue public statements for a systematic cover-up. Maj. Rico and his higher-ups desperately want to project that the AFP soldiers deployed for the militarization in the Surigao del Sur and Davao Oriental border-mountains is not running berserk and not suffering from low morale due to their numerous battle losses. But in the battlefield, Maj. Rico's pronouncements rang hollow as the US-Arroyo regime's costly illusion to wipe out the New People's Army in less than 20 months from now is nakedly taking its ugly toll to its AFP commanders and foot soldiers.
Last September 22, Red fighters hit the fascist enemy twice in a back-to-back tactical offensive: one harassment operation against the 36th IB-AFP detachment in Cabunsuan in Linging town; and later, ambushed the AFP troop reinforcements. Two days later, at 3:15 pm, Red fighters again ambushed the fascist military troops in Bogak, also in Lingig in Surigao del Sur. By September 30, the Red fighters engaged the fascists military in Sumilao in Boston, Davao Oriental. One Red fighter who was wounded during the offensives was later pronounced dead in a local hospital. He was a martyr of the people.
Indeed, the superiority of the regime's firepower and war machine used to exploit and trample the fundamental rights of the people is inutile when faced with an army engaged in guerrilla warfare; who knows the mountains and who lived with the masses in the countryside.
The massive presence of mercenary AFP troops and its show of superior firepower aims to drive the people away from their farms and homes, maim those who actively resist the aggressive incursions of big foreign businesses, and to protect the regime's favored sources of blood money. In the Surigao del Sur-Davao Oriental borders, the AFP troops is protecting American-Australian -owned Omega Gold and the gold mining ambitions of Asia's largest paper mill, PICOP.
Maj. Rico is laughable as he desperately misleads the people as to the true account of the offensives. He cannot distinguish the banned land mine from a Command-Detonated Explosive used by the Red fighters during ambuscades, bloats casualty figures on the NPA side, and downplays their numerous casualty rate, and insists that the AFP troops over-ran an "NPA camp" -- all proof of his ignorance to guerrilla methods and warfare. In the end, the masses are not unintelligent, and the people know better.
In the meantime, let Maj. Rico along with the AFP higher echelons and the US-Arroyo regime continue to wallow in deep political isolation from the masses, suffer widespread discontent among the AFP foot soldiers and its mounting failure to stop the growing strength of the revolutionary movement.
(Sgd) Roel Agustin IISpokespersonConrado Heredia CommandFront 20 Operations CommandNew People's Army-Southern Mindanao
From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION
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