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NSFA, Panacan, Davao City – Through the directive of Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) Commander LtGen. Greg T. Almerol, various army units in Eastern Mindanao ramped up their focused military operations in the past few days which resulted to the death of three communist terrorists and surrender of nine communist terrorists including two minors from September 17 until September 21.
Source: Public Information Office, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP
NSFA, Panacan, Davao City – Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) under the leadership of LtGen. Greg T. Almerol continues to alter the operational balance of the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) as it brought down six more communist terrorists in intensified joint military operations separately launched by the troops at Sitio Cogon-Cogon, Brgy Manalog, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon and in Brgy Bugsukan, Butuan City on September 20, 2021.
NSFA, Panacan, Davao City - The series of skirmishes between government forces and the New People’s Army (NPA) in Lianga, Surigao del Sur this week only exposed the NPA’s long practice of arming minors to join the armed struggle.
In an encounter on June 15, the Sub-Regional Sentro de Grabidad Southland, North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee (NEMRC) fired at the troops and detonated anti-personnel mine to evade the forces of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3SFBn) who were tracking them at vicinity of Sitio New Decoy, Diatagon, Lianga after the initial encounter with the same group the previous day.
The exchange of bullets lasted for about 10 minutes which led to the death of three NPA members identified as Lenie Perez Rivas, 38; Willy Salinas Rodriguez, 20, and a 12-year-old girl (name withheld).
This is not the first time that a minor was armed by the NPA as the data from EastMinCom revealed that 12.3% of the 1,691 former rebels that were profiled by the Command from 2016 to 2020 were minors. It was further found in the former rebels’ profiles that the average age of minors recruited by the NPA is 17, the youngest of whom was only 12 years old.
EastMinCom Commander LtGen. Greg T. Almerol also said that this is an old trick of the NPA to tag their member as an ordinary civilian especially if the casualty happens to be a minor.
“I am appealing to the hearts of the CPP-NPA-NDF to get real and stop recruiting children into the armed struggle. If they really have hearts, then they should know better that those children are meant to live their dreams. They have no place in the battleground,” LtGen. Almerol said.
Meanwhile, five NPA members were killed, two were captured, and seven capitulated in various focused military operations launched by EastMinCom units since June 1 until press time. Fifteen firearms were also seized by the troops in these encounters.
LtGen. Almerol said that these focused military operations are part of the Command’s mission to clear barangays from the atrocities of the NPA and to ensure that the implementation of projects under the Barangay Development Program will go unhampered.
Source: Public Information Office, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP
NSFA, Panacan, Davao City – The relentless military offensives launched by various units of Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom) under LtGen. Greg T. Almerol continued to bring the Communist Terrorist Group’s (CTG) forces to a steady decline especially with the recent arrest of two high-ranking members and surrender of four more in Eastern Mindanao.
Source: Public Information Office, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP
NSFA, Panacan, Davao City – A wanted top leader of the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) was arrested for multiple charges by the combined Army and Police forces at Purok 3, Barangay Paitan, Quezon, Bukidnon on September 15, 2021.
Source: Public Information Office, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP