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Vol. XLII No. 6
March 21, 2011
www.philippinerevolution.net
Aquino regime:
Bane on migrant workers
country. The Philippine embassy
has not laid down any contin-
gency programs and has no
plans of evacuating Filipino
igrante-Middle East strongly condemned the Aquino workers.
Tactical offensives
against Oplan Bayanihan
there were no casualties on the
NPA side.
Because the NPA's military
action was conducted so close
t least 11 AFP elements were killed and 19 were wounded in to the 10th ID's headquarters,
rilla army. When his real inten- troops of the 39th IB in destruction of the mountains,
tions were discovered, Quitua Barangay Colonsabak, Matanao, streams and other sources of
immediately bolted and told the Davao del Sur. water.
military about the local NPA The targeted troops serve as Meanwhile, the NPA in Ne-
unit's location and strength. guards of the environmentally gros strongly denied involve-
This resulted in two defensive destructive gigantic mining firm ment in a misencounter on Jan-
battles, which the Red army was Xstrata-SMI. uary 28 in Cambayobo, Calatra-
able to surmount because of the In Northcentral Mindanao. va, Negros Occidental. In fact,
timely information provided by The NPA Rexan Perez Command said Roslyn Pelle Command
the masses. destroyed heavy equipment spokesperson Ka Cecille Estrella,
Quitua was active in threat- owned by Dole Philippines and it was AFP troops that were in-
ening and harassing barriofolk Sumifru in Malaybalay, Bukid- volved in that misencounter,
during the 39th IB's operations, non on February 26 and 28. The which led to the death of at
especially villagers opposed to punitive action was launched least 15 soldiers.
the Barangay Defense System. because these companies have Prior to the misencounter,
In Far South Mindanao. Red been seizing the farmers' lands, Red fighters ambushed a group
fighters from the Mt. Alip Oper- exploiting their workers and of attacking soldiers, killing five
ations Command and elements destroying the environment. of them in the first volley of
of the people's militia inflicted On February 23, a CAFGU el- gunfire. A Red fighter was also
at least six casualties on AFP ement was killed and another martyred in this gunbattle.
troops in Davao del Sur and element wounded in harass- The NPA was able to with-
Columbio, Sultan Kudarat. ment operations launched by draw quickly, with the enemy re-
On March 2, at least four sol- the NPA Ernesto “Boyboy” Roa inforcements arriving too late at
diers were hit by NPA snipers Command at around 7 p.m. in the scene of the fighting. Great-
targeting operating troops from Barangay Dao, San Fernando, ly fearful of being ambushed by
the 27th IB in Barangay Tagay- Bukidnon against operating the Red fighters, the jittery ele-
tay, Magsaysay, Davao del Sur. troops of the 8th IB. The 8th IB ments of the AFP, Division Re-
After a week, the enemy suf- protects the Eagle Mining Co. connaissance Company and PNP
fered two more casualties when which is much hated by the lo- ended up firing their weapons at
the NPA sniped marauding cal Lumad population for its each other. ~
of Leyte
used in their research were mis-
taken for long firearms or auto-
matic rifles, after which the
trigger-happy soldiers mowed
them down.
he Mount Amandewin Command (NPA-Leyte) has disclosed the
A tribute to Leonard Co
gara, killng ten soldiers and
wounding five more. As in the first
“Sierra Madre Trek”
ambush, the 19th IB concealed
the extent of their casualties from
the media. elatives, friends and environmental advocates will trek
The Mount Amandewin Com-
mand called on the various sec-
R the Sierra Madre mountain range as a tribute to patriotic
scientist Leonardo Co. The trek is being organized by the late
tors to support the struggle for scientist's brother-in-law Darwin Flores.
justice of the victims of the The “Sierra Madre Trek” will comprise two parts--a recon-
Kananga massacre as well as that naissance trek from March 23 to April 11 which will be joined
of other victims of the 19th IB's by members of the University of the Philippines-Baguio
violations of human rights. It Mountaineers; and a second trek by a group of 30 people
called for an end to the 19th IB's from April 18 to 23. The organizers expect mountaineers and
impunity, for the investigation of other nature lovers to join the activity. The “Sierra Madre
all its violations of international Trek” will end with the scattering of Co's ashes in the 16-
humanitarian law, and for the de- hectare Forest Dynamics Plot in Barangay Villarobles,
mobilization of the battalion for Palanan, Isabela where the famed botanist spent much time
being a gross violator of the laws conducting research on medicinal plants. ~
of war. ~
regime's inutility
CHR Deputy Commis-
sioner Jose Manuel Mamaug
said a witness positively
identified 1Lt. Harry Balia-
ga Jr. as among the armed
elements who seized Bur- housands of Filipino women joined celebrations of the 100th In-
gos. Baliaga was then as-
signed to the 56th IB,
which is under the 7th In-
T ternational Working Women's Day on March 8. To commemorate
the occasion, the women marched to Malacañang as well as in
other town centers and cities to assert their right to health services
fantry Division then led by and against rising prices of goods and services.
the butcher Gen. Jovito Pal- GABRIELA and other progres- Women's Party in Congress.
paran. sive organizations compared the The rallyists expressed their
The CHR's investigation first nine months of the newly in- solidarity with women worldwide,
was greatly aided by the stalled Aquino regime to the ges- especially in countries beset by
testimony of Jeffrey Cabin- tation of a regime of inutility, grave political crises. Interna-
toy who was working at the and declared they were now tional Working Women's Day was
restaurant where Burgos bringing forth their extreme dis- commemorated even as millions
was abducted, and Edmond gust for the new pro-imperialist of women have been taking ac-
Daguman, a former soldier and antipeople regime. tion alongside their people in
who served under Baliaga at Among the issues GABRIELA protests and uprisings engen-
the 56th IB. The CHR rec- railed against were programs of dered by the negative and de-
ommended to the Supreme the Aquino regime such as the structive effects of the global re-
Court that the victim's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) cession. It was a fitting way to
mother Mrs. Edita Burgos be that is no other than compliance commemorate the occasion, es-
granted a writ of amparo, with US imperialism's privatiza- pecially since International Work-
and that Baliaga be com- tion and denationalization ing Women's Day is a tribute to
pelled to produce Jonas scheme. They also assailed the the protest actions of women
Burgos. The CHR also rec- conditional cash transfer program against the deleterious effects of
ommended filing kidnap- where the only ones who stand to capitalism.
ping/enforced disappear- gain will be government officials Similar mass actios were held
ance/arbitrary detention who will be pocketing the pro- in Southern Tagalog, Central Lu-
charges against Baliaga as gram's funds. They also called for zon, Bicol, Cordillera, Negros,
a principal, due to his di- the enactment of the Comprehen- Iloilo, Cebu, Bohol, Southern
rect participation in Burgos' sive Reproductive Health Bill that Mindanao, Caraga, Northern Min-
abduction. ~ was sponsored by the Gabriela danao and Socksargen. ~