News from the War in the Philippines

Three Killed in NPA ambush vs. 3rd Special Forces Bn in ComVal;
one M60 machine gun seized

Ka Aris Francisco
Alejandro Lanaja Command
Front 3 Operations Command
New Peoples Army-Southern Mindanao
November 09, 2008

The Red fighters of the Alejandro Lanaja Command- Front 3 Operations Command of the New People's Army- Southern Mindanao ambushed the notorious forces of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion- AFP (3rd SF Bn), Friday morning, November 7, in sitio Anagasse, Barangay Casoon, Monkayo, Compostela Valley Province.

Three were instantly killed and others wounded on the enemy side. One (1) M60 machine gun, two (2) M16 rifles and one (1) M14 were seized from the enemy. The ambushed troops of the 3rd SF BN was on combat patrol as part of the enemy's Reengineered Special Operations Team (RSOT).

The NPA tactical offensive serves as a punitive action against the 3rd SF Bn who had been responsible for the series of violations to human rights, protocols of war and international humanitarian law in Comval, to wit:

The 3rd SF Bn masterminded the bombing that wounded young civilians in Poblacion, Nabunturan town last June; the bombing was a desperate and fascist attack in response to the sparrow operations of the NPA which killed two of their soldiers at that time.

Second, the 3rd SF Bn operatives killed farmer leader and barangay councilor Noli Llanos of Barangay Mipangi, Nabunturan last June. This occurred after NPA sparrow operations killed three AFP troops; two of whom died on the spot.

Third, they also killed farmer leader Diego Encarnacion of Barangay Linda, Nabunturan last July following an NPA raid disarming the 72nd Infantry Battalion-AFP detachment in that village.

Fourth, the 3rd SF Bn mauled a farmer known as Pascual who hails from sitio Cebuli, Barangay Kapatagan, Laak. This occurred after three members of the 3rd SF Bn were killed and two others wounded during an encounter with the NPA last September.

Fifth, as part of the Oplan Bantay Laya II, the 3rd SF Bn conducted continuous and vicious military operations in Monkayo. Suffering defeat upon defeat from NPA tactical operations, the 3rd SF Bn turns to hapless civilians, in complete violation to the protocols of war.

Indeed, the 3rd Special Forces Bn--this so-called elite AFP unit-- is further isolated from the people. Clearly, Oplan Bantay Laya II of the US-Arroyo regime has no where to go but to doom.

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION