 |
| Interior Sec. Eduardo Año/photo courtesy of PNA |
The two “high-ranking” communist rebel
leaders were recently killed in a recent encounter with joint military and
police forces in Quezon City.
These communist rebel leaders were allegedly part of
communist “special teams” tasked to liquidate President Rodrigo Duterte and
other government officials.
Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary
Eduardo Año announced Saturday, two days after Eleuterio Agmaliw and Freddie
Daileg, the two communist leaders who were involved in a gunfight with policemen
and military who were serving warrants of arrest against the two around 4 a.m.
Thursday in Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon in Novaliches.
They were charged for committing destructive arson, murder,
frustrated murder, and rebellion in their supposed safe house in Novaliches.
Authorities said Agmaliw and Daileg both engaged arresting
personnel in a shootout prompting a 45-minute gunfight.
Both suspects were killed in the encounter, also with Lucio
Carbonel, the owner of the safe house and allegedly the New People’s Army
(NPA) leaders’ “contact” in Metro Manila.
NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Carbonel was posing as a tricycle driver to conceal his
identity according to Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas, acting director of the National
Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) as he announced in a press briefing on
Friday.
Recovered from the scene of the encounter were three firearms, including .38 revolver, an M16 rifle, a caliber .45 pistol and an MK2 hand grenade, police reported.
Recovered from the scene of the encounter were three firearms, including .38 revolver, an M16 rifle, a caliber .45 pistol and an MK2 hand grenade, police reported.
“These NPA leaders are
part of the special teams directed by the CPP leadership to assassinate senior
government officials that include the President. But we got to them first and
we will not stop until every one of them is arrested and brought before the bar
of justice,” Año said.
Recently, Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., deputy chief of
staff for civil-military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines revealed
that the CPP has organized a plan to kill government officials handling the
Duterte administration’s anti-insurgency campaign.
Also included in the alleged NPA hit list were Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., National
Commission on Indigenous People’s chairman Allen Capuyan, and Secretary Año
himself.
However, Año said, special composite teams of state forces have been deployed to chase down
members of NPA’s Special Partisan Unit that were reportedly instructed by CPP
to kill those in the hit list ahead of the communist group’s 51st founding
anniversary on December 26.
“As I promised, we
will get you first even before you get near us. There is no safe place for you
in Metro Manila and in any urban center around the country. Kaya kung ako sa
inyo, sumuko na kayo habang hindi pa huli ang lahat (If I were you, just
surrender before everything gets too late),” Año said.
Source: Inquirer
0 Comments