NPA intensifies enemy harassment campaign, advances anti-feudal struggle - Philippines

NPA Red fighters ambushed a detachment of the Philippine Army in Monkayo, Compostela Valley, with one paramilitary CAFGU killed and a Philippine Army cadreman wounded. A day before, another NPA team exploded a capto blast in another enemy detachment in Laak town.

PRESS STATEMENT
By ARIS FRANCISCO, Spokesperson
Compostela Valley-North Davao-South Agusan Subregional Command
NPA Southern Mindanao
28 August 2013

NPA intensifies enemy harassment campaign, advances anti-feudal struggle

The Compostela Valley - North Davao - South Agusan Subregional Command of the New People’s Army has resumed its enemy harassment campaign to combat the preparations for the anti-people biofuel, palm oil and mining projects in Agusan and Compostela Valley boundaries.
Red fighters belonging to the Guerilla Front 3 ambushed yesterday, 27 August, a military detachment of the 72nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army in Barangay (village) Casoon, Monkayo, with one paramilitary CAFGU killed and a Philippine Army cadreman wounded. A day before, on Monday, another NPA team exploded a capto blast in another detachment of the 60th Infantry Battalion in Barangay Katipunan, Laak town.
The 60th IB is expanding its area of coverage from Davao City to Davao del Norte to Agusan boundaries as it joins forces with the notorious 26th Infantry Battalion, the army unit responsible for the abuses of peasants and Lumads in Loreto town, Agusan del Sur. Its Reengineered Special Operations Team, deceptively called "Peace and Development Teams", along with elements of the 72nd IB, continue to conduct psychological warfare against the masses and commit abuses in order to pave the way for the large-scale biofuel, palm oil and mining projects.
These active NPA tactical offensives are meant to protect the gains of the anti-feudal campaign in the countryside of Agusan and Compostel Valley boundaries.
The masses and the revolutionary forces are persevering in advancing the agrarian revolution in these areas. In the last couple of years, and more so in recent months, advances in the struggle for land reform are gaining momentum -- successes which the enemy are seeking to reverse.
Village-level anti-feudal struggles are gaining ground and reactivating thousands of mass activists and revolutionary mass organizations. The collective and communal work in the farms have benefited thousands of peasant and Lumad families in Agusan.

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