May 21, 2007
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said that the New People’s Army (NPA) was able to seize at least 38 firearms from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) and paramilitary groups from May 3-16. At least 28 of these are high-powered weapons, including an M-60 machine gun.
Responding to the CPP’s call to step up tactical offensives, seize weapons and intensify people’s war nationwide, the NPA launched more than a dozen tactical offensives in at least seven provinces in the last two weeks, according to a consolidated report published in the CPP’s fortnightly newspaper Ang Bayan. At least 31 enemy troops were killed in action and 37 wounded.
1 KIA: Killed in Action
2 WIA: Wounded in Action Date Place Seized Weapons Enemy
KIA1 Enemy
WIA2
May 3 Ilog, Negros Occidental 2 M16 2
May 4 Pola, Oriental Mindoro 2 M16 2 1
1 Carbine
6 .45 cal
1 .38 cal
May 5 Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental 4 M16 4 2
1 .45 cal
May 10 Escalante, Negros Occidental 1 M16 4
1 M14
May 10 San Jose, Occidental Mindoro 4 M16 5 6
2 M14
1 M203
May 11 Gumaca, Quezon 1
May 12 Bontoc, Mountain Province 3 17
May 13 Lope de Vega, Northern Samar 1 M14 1 2
1 M60
May 14 Boliney, Abra 1
May 15 Abra 2 .45 cal
May 16 Boliney, Abra (2 offensives) 5 M16 10 7
2 M14
1 M203
38 31 37
According to the CPP, these tactical offensives delivered “hurting blows to the hated, fraudulent and brutal US-Arroyo regime.”
CPP spokesperson Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal said “these tactical offensives were carried out against the regime’s military and police forces most notorious for their fascist crimes against the people.”
Rosal exhorted NPA Red fighters to further intensify tactical offensives to punish the US-Arroyo regime and its armed forces “especially for the largescale fraud and brutal crimes they have committed against the people.”
He added that “The Filipino people are seething with anger against the rotten, cheating and brutal puppet regime of Gloria Arroyo. There is an urgent need to further step up the revolutionary armed struggle to deal further body and head blows against the Arroyo regime.”
“There should be no letup in the all-sided struggle against the Arroyo regime in order to further weaken it and hasten its fall,” said Rosal.
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Marco Valbuena
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