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Saturday, July 06, 2013

July 4th Martyrs in the Philippines

Ka Greg, Ka Nel and Ka Gary, despite being unarmed, were seized and
summarily-executed. They were shot in the face and their bodies
riddled with bullets by the troops of the 31st Infantry Battalion.

From CPP Information Bureau/
Maoist Revolution:

July 6, 2013

CPP salutes fallen Bicol revolutionaries, denounces 4 July Juban
massacre
.


The leadership and entire membership of the Communist Party of the
Philippines and Red fighters and commanders of the New People's Army
rise up t o salute:

Frankie Joe Soriano (Ka Greg Bañares)

Christine Puche (Ka Nel)

Ted Palacio (Ka Gary)

Pehing Hipa (Ka Miloy)

David Llunar (Ka Rey)

Romero Añonuevo (Ka Nene)

William Villanueva, Jr (Ka Jay)

Ailyn Calma (Ka Kevin)

who were martyred in the early morning of July 4, 2013 in Barangay
(village) Calomayon, Juban, Sorsogon.

Ka Greg Bañares served as spokesperson of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in the Bicol region. He was with other
members of the Information Office of the NDFP-Bicol and a security
detail of the New People's Army (NPA).

The CPP denounces the brutal massacre committed by the fascist troops
of the 31st Infantry Battalion against the revolutionary martyrs. The
CPP demands that the troops and officers involved in the massacre be
made to answer for violations of the Comprehensive Agreement on
Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL)
and pertinent protocols of the Geneva Conventions.

According to initial reports submitted by the NPA Sorsogon Provincial
Command, local residents saw Ka Greg, Ka Nel and Ka Gary retreating
from the site of the initial fighting. Despite being unarmed, they
were seized and summarily-executed. They were shot in the face and
their bodies riddled with bullets by the troops of the 31st Infantry
Battalion.

Being unarmed and unable to put up any form of resistance, Ka Greg, Ka
Nel and Ka Gary should have been arrested and detained as prisoners of
war in accordance with provisions of the Geneva Conventions governing
protagonists rendered hors de combat. They were, instead, mercilessly
massacred by the soldiers of the 31st Infantry Battalion.

The CPP seeks an independent investigation of the 4 July Juban
massacre. It calls on the Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) tasked to
oversee the implementation of the CARHRIHL to conduct a fact-finding
effort in cases of violations of human rights and brutality. The CPP
appeals to human rights groups, church groups, independent lawyers'
groups and pertinent agencies of the United Nations to undertake their
own investigation into this massacre.

The CPP and all revolutionary forces vow to exact justice and punish
the perpetrators of this massacre. It calls on all units of the NPA to
carry out more tactical offensives to defend the people, particularly
the peasant masses in Sorsogon and the Bicol region, who are being
subjected to more severe violations of human rights as the Armed
Forces of the Philippines intensifies its Oplan Bayanihan war of
suppression.
www.ndfp.net
www.philippinerevolution.net


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