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KORONADAL CITY – Two members of the Communist New People’s Army have surrendered to the military authorities in South Cotabato, following military offensives that claimed the lives of at least 10 Red fighters in nearby Sultan Kudarat.
Brig. General Roy Gallido, commander of the 601st Infantry Brigade, said that the two NPA rebels who surrendered their firearms and explosives to the 5th Special Forces Battalion at Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, also handed over rifles. assault.
Galido said the rebels decided to surrender after learning that more than 10 guerrillas were killed in a military operation in the bush. Lumuton in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat.
The dead were among the group that attempted to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26, when the military launched an air and ground assault on the area, using smart bombs.
“We decided to surrender now and go back to our parents before they kill us,” one returnee who identified himself as “Ton” told reporters.
He said he planted improvised bombs on passenger buses and burned construction equipment from companies that ignored the NPA’s demands for “revolutionary taxes.”
Galido praised local Lake Sebu officials and Lieutenant Colonel Randy Banaag, the fifth commanding officer of the Special Forces, for the surrender of the two rebels.
In Magpet, North Cotabato, five former ANPs who surrendered to the 1002nd Brigade urged their comrades to come down and surrender.
Colonel Potency Camba and North Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco presented the five delivered to the media in Magpet on the day the CPP celebrated its 52nd anniversary of founding.
Firearms surrendered by communist rebels in northern Cotabato. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Datu Ramon Bayaan, former secretary general of Apo Sandawa Lumadnong Panaghiusa sa Cotabato (ASLPC) and who was among those who surrendered, said that the NPA had been recruiting indigenous peoples, considered “vulnerable sectors”, because they were “uneducated, poor and easy “. to cheat “.
The military presented 80 assorted firearms and explosives delivered by the ANP in the last 10 months within the area of operation of the 1002 Infantry Brigade.
/ MUF
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