Rigoberto F. Sanchez
Spokesperson
Regional Operations Command
Southern Mindanao
New People's Army
25 January 2017
The 1st Pulang Bagani Battalion of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao punished a notorious operator of drug trade, and an organizer of Alamara bandits who was also responsible for the killing and massacre of peasants, in two separate operations last week in Calinan and Paquibato districts, Davao City.
On January 16, at around 4:00 in the afternoon in Brgy. Saloy,Calinan, Red fighters killed Alberto T. Sablada, a stooge of the 73rd IB who was a known leader and organizer of the paramilitary Alamara
for the AFP’s counter-insurgency campaign. Sablada was also identified as one of the culprits in the April 15, 2002 massacre of Apolio “Tatay Poloy” Enoc, a peasant leader; and Rosha Icatan, Charles Bayanban,Edgar Bias, Jaimae Daculo and Warlito Bayanban in Sitio Pangyan, Tamugan, Marilog district.
On January 23, the death penalty was also meted out to Neptali Alfredo Pondoc, 37, in his farm-turned-drug den in Taboan, Malabog, Paquibato district. Neptali operates one of the drug syndicates that trade shabu from Diwalwal in Monkayo, Compostela Valley to Panabo City, Paquibato and Calinan in Davao City. His farm, in fact, sits in between two AFP detachments in Sitio Binaton and Sitio 24 and supplies drugs to CAFGUs and cadre man of both detachments. Pondoc has a warrant of
arrest from the GRP reactionary police in Calinan. Red fighters also confiscated various drug paraphernalia such as weighing scales and other equipment found in his farm.
The dispensation of revolutionary justice last week has been one of the Red Army’s preoccupations in accordance to the guidelines set by the unilateral interim ceasefire issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Operational Command of the NPA. Part of the ceasefire reads: “While ceasing offensive military operations, the NPA will continue to enforce policies and laws of the people’s democratic government, perform appropriate functions of governance, and mobilize the people and resources in territories under its authority, including: maintaining peace and order including suppression of criminal groups such as drug traffickers and operators of the drug trade and large-scale gambling, private armies and private armed groups of warlords, local tyrants and vigilante groups, as well as spies.”
The NPA operation last week is a far cry from the relentless counter-insurgency activities of the PNP and the AFP. Under the auspices of Oplan Tokhang, the PNP not only continues to wage an anti-people drug war that does not discriminate between victims and perpetrators, its fascist officials, likewise, use the pretext of “drug operations” in order to encroach on Red territories.
Similarly, AFP units smokescreen their offensive military operations, as what happened on January 21 in Makilala, North Cotabato, with claims of “anti-criminality” operations in order to wantonly subvert their ceasefire order and engage the Red army in armed combat.
https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20170125-npa-punishes-alamara-organizer-drug-operator-in-davao-city
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