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The Manila Times

Tuesday, July 13, 2004


Army troopers rescue 100 workers
hostaged by lawless elements in Apayao

By Karl B. Kaufman, Reporter

A LOCAL group of lawless elements held hostage at least 100 employees of a furniture firm and engaged Army troopers in an 18-hour standoff in Apayao province on Friday.

A subsequent rescue operation by the Army’s 5th Infantry Division resulted in the death of one hostage and the wounding of another one. Two hostage-takers were also reported wounded in the firefight.

Col. Hilario Atendido, chief of staff of the Army’s 5th Infantry Division, confirmed the incident, saying it started around 9 p.m. Friday and ended 3 p.m. Saturday in Sitio Mangasit, Salvacion village in Luna town.

Killed during the rescue operation was Junior Quiñones. Atendido said the fatality was shot by his captors when they spotted him trying to escape in the middle of the firefight.

Atendido admitted that no one among the perpetrators was arrested.

The victims, all employees of Furniture Group Inc. in the town, were onboard eight trucks when 20 heavily armed men held them at gunpoint around 7 a.m. Friday. It was only around 9 p.m. on the same day that responding military troops were able to catch up with the group and its captives.

“The victims were taken to a forested area so we had difficulty in locating them immediately,” Atendido said. “We have identified the members of the group and they are mostly ex-convicts.”

The hostage-taking was reportedly carried out after the management of the firm refused to yield in to the lawless group’s P10-million extortion demand.

Firefight between the group and the responding military troops started when the lawless elements fired at the soldiers, who were attempting to negotiate for the release of the hostages.

Two of the hostages informed the soldiers that they were ordered by the group to help carry two of their wounded comrades before they were released around 3 p.m. Saturday.

Besides holding hostage employees of the firm, the gang members also burned five bulldozers and a five-ton truck.

Army troops from the 17th Infantry Battalion are presently on blocking positions at the junction of Salvacion village to arrest the fleeing bandits.

But not even one perp captured?
I hate to be cynical but some news can really get you worked up.

ngek oo nga no hostage pa ang namatay

True warrior style

Army captain frees self; kills 2 NPA captors
By Edith Regalado
The Philippine Star 07/27/2004

DAVAO CITY — Talk of valor.

Army Capt. Lowen Gil Marquez, of the 47th Infantry Battalion based in Panay Island, chose to fight New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who attacked a CAFGU detachment in Colombio, Sultan Kudarat last Sunday even when he was supposed to be off duty.

At least two rebels were reportedly killed while five others were wounded in the firefight that lasted for at least two hours.

Marquez himself was briefly taken hostage by the guerrillas, but managed to free himself and kill two of his captors.

"The rebels intercepted me while I was already near the detachment. They hogtied me but they were not able tie it well so I was able to break free. I immediately grabbed the M16 armalite rifle of one of my captors who was busy talking to their platoon leader," Marquez said.

Marquez was reportedly also a recipient of a "gold cross" award after he was instrumental in the recovery of six Chinese nationals who were kidnapped in Colombio early last year.

Lt. Col. Danilo Estropia, commanding officer of the 47th IB, said he would recommend a medal of valor for Marquez.

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imagine if the whole AFP are men like these.. we wont need modern equipment coz no one would dare anyway...

keep it up sir!

Agree. We need more officers like him.

Military, NPA launch separate raids in Agusan, Zamboanga

Updated 02:50pm (Mla time) Aug 06, 2004
By Franklin Caliguid, Grace Cantal-Albasin, Hernan dela Cruz
Inquirer News Service

BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte, Philippines -- Cesar Renerio, spokesman of the National Democratic Front in Northcentral Mindanao, said soldiers stormed the NPA camp in sitio Manawang in Barangay (village) Guinabsan around 5 a.m., killing a ranking rebel leader.

He said seven soldiers were also killed during the hour-long gun battle.

But Lieutenant Colonel Pendatun Guro, spokesman of the Army's 401st Infantry Brigade based here, debunked Renerio's claim about military casualties. He said only two soldiers were slightly wounded during the clash.

Meanwhile, New People's Army rebels wearing military uniforms disarmed policemen manning an outpost in Boyugan West in Kumalarang town, Zamboanga del Sur province on Thursday, Superintendent Karib Muammil said.

He said the rebels were on board a passenger bus and were presumably from Buug town in Zamboanga Sibugay province.

The rebels got off the bus on reaching the outpost and disarmed the two policemen manning it, he said.

The rebels took the police officers’ M-16 rifles and 9mm pistols, he added.

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As easy as 123, add 2 more M16s and 2 9mm pistols to the NeP inventory.

Good job Army

NPA base in Agusan seized; 17 rebels, soldiers dead

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The military captured a New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla base in Agusan del Norte on Friday.

Reports reaching Camp Evangelista, the base of the 4th Infantry Division, showed that 12 NPA guerrillas were killed and a number were wounded when the military attacked at sunrise a major NPA camp in sitio Manawang, barangay Guinabasan, Buenavista.

Five soldiers were killed and 13 were wounded from the incident.

Maj. Gen. Samuel Bagasin, 4th ID commander, said that two of the slain guerrillas were identified only as alias Lamdag and alias Jerome.

He said that the capture of the heavily fortified camp of the NPA was the result of the cooperation of the civilians in the area.

“The camp was the staging area of the NPAs in conducting atrocities in the different municipalities. It was occupied by communist terrorists belonging to the Sentro de Grabidad Crema, led by a certain alias Troy of Front Guerrilla Unit Andy of Front Committee 4A under Ricardo Manili, alias Joker.

The wounded soldiers were evacuated to the Army hospital in Bancasi, Butuan City. The names of the slain soldiers were withheld pending notification of their respective families.

“We will continue to locate and engage them [NPAs] where they maybe. We will hit them and we will hit them hard,” Bagasin said.


ABS-CBN News

well done bros

sad news...

Missing Army officer, aide found dead at gunbattle site

By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO

BANCASI, Butuan City – An Army officer and his aide, who were reported missing during a big gunbattle last week, were found dead by pursuing troops at the Mamawang battle site, barangay Guinabsan, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte, an Army commander said yesterday.

In a report sent to AFP chief of staff Gen. Narciso Abaya, Maj. Gen. Samuel B. Bagasin, commanding general of the Army’s Fourth Infantry (Diamond) Division, identified the dead Army officer as 2nd Lt. Jovie P. Aleria and his aide as Private Sivee T. Berdon, both of 41st Reconnaisance Company of the 4th Division.

Their bodies were found during the clearing operations by reinforcing troops of the 401st Infantry (Unite and Fight) Brigade under the command of Col. Rogelio Rosete.

They were reported missing during the three-day air-and-ground assault in which a major New People’s Army (NPA) camp was overrun in Guinabsan, General Bagasin said.

With the discovery of the two bodies, the death toll in the Guinabsan gunbattle rose to seven soldiers and 12 rebels. The number of the wounded stood at 21.

Massive military operations, supported by attack helicopters and other war earth-moving equipment, were still going on yesterday morning in the Guinabsan mountain against some 60 heavily armed NPA rebels.

The soldiers belonging to 30th Infantry Battalion, 41st and 42nd Reconnaisance Companies under the over-all command of Colonel Rosete were pursuing the regional fighters of the CPP-NPA Northeastern Mindanao Revolutionary Committee’s (NEMRC) Front Committee 4-A and Sentro de Grabidad Command, Bagasin said.

In a statement, Bagasin said, the heroic act of Lieutenant Aleria and his men in the Mamawang gunbattle preempted the rebels’ plan to attack Nasipit, the province’s frontier town where the international sea port and power-gas turbine barges are located.

http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2004081015916.html

Official Army casualty list:

KIA:

2Lt. Jovie Aleria, Cpl. Edgado Bautista, T/Sgt. Piler Miral, Pfc. Elisor Lloyd Gul-les, Pfc. Anthony Abutanmo, Private Sevie Berdon and Pfc. Erwin Pabualan.

Rest in Peace, brothers in arms!

WIA:

2Lt. Romorosa, Sgt. Joel Española, privates Clint John Quizon, Nelson Mabandos, Allan Mirar, Brando Berduso and Roberto Bajaro, Pfcs. Alberto Bato, Ceciliano Butron and Jimenez , Cpl. Glenn Abo and a civilian guide, Romeo dela Peña.

Get well soon mga bro!

Soldiers kill 9 NPA rebels in Compostela Valley

Updated 09:23am (Mla time) Sept 23, 2004
Agence France-Presse


ZAMBOANGA , Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines -- Philippine soldiers killed at least nine communist guerrillas in a gunbattle in the southern island of Mindanao, a spokesman said Thursday.

Guerrillas of the communist New People's Army (NPA) opened fire on a military patrol in Compostela Valley late Wednesday but the soldiers fought back, killing nine of them, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Lucero said.

The soldiers sustained no casualties, he said.

Troops had gone to the area after residents complained of NPA extortion and looting, he said.

The 8,600-strong NPA and its political leadership, the Communist Party of the Philippines have been waging a 35-year Maoist armed campaign to seize power.

The party announced in August that it was suspending peace talks with the government because of Manila's alleged failure to persuade Western countries to remove it from their lists of international terrorists.



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Good Job SRs.

yea right

rock on mga musang