NEWS BULLETIN
News Archives (April -June 2009)

19 June 2009

NPA REGULAR SURRENDERS TWO (2) HIGH-POWERED FIREARMS
 

Camp Melchor F dela Cruz, Upi, Gamu, Isabela - A New People’s Army regular member voluntarily surrendered with his two (2) M16 rifles to the joint elements of 77th Infantry Battalion, 5th Military Intelligence Battalion and 501st Infantry Brigade led by Col Romeo Fajardo at Brgy Bagumbayan Dupax del Sur, Nueva Vizcaya on 18 June, this year.

In a report sent to Maj Gen Nestor Z Ochoa, Commander of the Army’s 5th Infantry Division, the rebel is identified as AKA Arnie, an active member of the Cagayan Valley Regional Committee of the CPP/NPA/NDF. (However, pending other critical revelations of subject RR, request that his name be withheld upon publication to national and local news.)

Maj Gen Ochoa, acting on the report, presented the rebel returnee to the media on 19 June 2009 at 9 o’clock in the morning in this camp. In a simple ceremony, the media practitioners personally witnessed the awarding of the firearms remuneration and financial assistance to the rebel as part of the Social Integration Program of the government.

As he revealed, Ka Arnie decided to surrender to the government forces because he could no longer bear the hardship in joining the futile underground movement. He observed that his group could no longer solicit assistance from the populace so he decided to lay down his arms and more importantly his ideology. He then gave his utmost gratitude to the government for providing him financial reward – more than enough as his foundation to restart his life with his family anew.

In his short message during the ceremony, Maj Gen Ochoa urged the other members of the Communist Terrorist Movement to follow Ka Arnie’s footsteps and finally embrace the offer of the government - peaceful reconciliation towards peace and development.