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| Seized documents say CPP-NPA ordered rallies |
| 2003-03-17 |
| Most protest demonstrations in the country against the holding of the Philippines-US war exercises and the US plan to attack Iraq have been ordered by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). This was gathered from voluminous subversive documents which included a fourpage computerized memorandum dated March 25, 2002 and issued to all CPP-NPA organic units of the Bagong Hukbong Bayan or NPA in Central Luzon. The documents were seized by the policemen in an encounter with some 15 NPA guerrillas last Feb. 27. In that clash, five rebels, including an amazon, were killed. The subversive documents which were encoded [sic] with the help of former NPA officers who had surrendered to the police also showed that the CPP-NPA's Central Luzon Executive Committee has ordered the intensification of the armed aggression against "American imperialists in the country." A part of the seized documents is entitled "Objections to Balikatan 02-2" war exercises in Central Luzon on April 22 to May 2002 "especially since the Balikatan exercises in Sulu have yet to be finished." The CPP-NPA memorandum to its units stated that the joint Philippine-US war exercises with participation of 1,700 US troops in Central Luzon was "merely an excuse of the American imperialists to conduct an aggressive armed pursuit against members of the NPA." The memorandum also stated that the war exercises "were made for the pursuit of the Abu Sayyaf in Mindanao and with the absence of the ASG in Central Luzon, the targets of operations of the US would be the leftist groups which they have already tagged as terrorists." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 An Amazon? Who, Wonder Woman? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-17 20:59:52 |