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Pahayagan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ANG Pinapatnubayan ng Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoismo English Edition Vol. L No. 15 August 7, 2019 www.cpp.ph EDITORIAL End Duterte's terror in AFP & PNP incurs 43 casualties Negros & across the country in Negros egros is drenched in blood. Once again, the Duterte monster spewed a FOUR POLICE OFFICERS, dis- thousand bullets against the defenseless. guised as employees of the De- N partment of Environment and His death squads in the island directed his ire against unarmed Natural Resources, were am- mounted another round of killings of civilians. bushed by Red fighters at Sitio ordinary people over the past Since the Sagay massacre in Yamot, Barangay Mabato, month. No less than 16 were killed, October 2018, Negros has suffered Ayungon, Negros Oriental on including a former mayor, an elected four rounds of concentrated violent July 18. The policemen were council, a school principal and other attacks by the Duterte regime. Pat- killed in action, contrary to officers in the civil bureaucracy. The terned after simultaneous attacks Duterte's claim that the four killing of ordinary civilians is also and killings by police and military in were tortured. Four 9mm. pis- relentless. Most of them were base- communities under the so-called tols, nine magazines and ammu- lessly accused of supporting the Oplan Sauron, armed agents of the nition were consficated from revolutionary movement. AFP and PNP carried out the killings them. Doubtlessly, the monster one after another. The evil aim is to On June 22, the NPA Duterte is behind these killings. He terrorize the people of Negros and blasted an explosive against was so incensed over the annihila- cripple their resistance to the fas- troopers of the 704th Regional tion of his four armed men last July cist regime. Mobile Force Battalion at Sitio 18 in an ambush by the New Peo- Landlessness in the island of Cambugtong, Manjuyod, Negros ple's Army (NPA) last July 18 in Negros is one of the worst in the Oriental. More than 20 police Ayungon, Negros Oriental. Because entire country. Here, the fraudu- officers were killed while two of this, he incited his minions to un- lence of the "land reform" program others were wounded. Earlier, leash even worse fascist terror and of the reactionary state is starkly the people's army sniped sol- "End...," continued on page 2 "AFP...," continued on page 3 "Wakasan...," mula sa pahina 1 been met with massacres, killings, the entire bureaucracy of the clear. Negros continues to be ruled arrests and incarcerations. Duterte government is under di- by big hacienderos who continue to Through Duterte's October rect and indirect military control. enrich themselves with thousands 2018 Memorandum Order No. 32, All civil agencies are weaponized of hectares of sugar land. At the he claimed additional powers to for the war of suppression. same time, big mining companies impose military and police rule in Across the country, killings covet the island's rich mineral re- the name of "suppressing lawless and military abuses of power are sources. violence." Negros was among those relentless. State violence is em- The masses of peasants and placed under de facto martial law. ployed to silence the clamor for farmworkers in Negros sugarcane After successive killings in July, he genuine land reform and suppress fields suffer severe oppression and deployed an additional 300 troops resistance against entry of foreign exploitation. They go hungry ev- of the Special Action Force in the mining companies, plantations and eryday. Their clamor for social island. This will tighten the armed infrastructure projects under the justice and land reform as solution grip and suppression against the regime's "Build, Build, Build" pro- to their poverty resounds. The people of the island. gram. Fascism is the other face of armed revolution in Negros con- The terror that reigns over the Dutertes' bureaucrat capitalist tinues to gain strength because of Negros is the same that blankets plunder. the deep and wide support of the the countryside across the country. Though brutal and relentless, toiling masses who aspire to put The situation is worse in the Min- one must not think that the an end to the century-old oppres- danao provinces where more than Duterte monster is invincible. Its sive system. two years of martial law has cruelty is a sign not of strength, Big landlords fund soldiers and reigned. In addition to Negros, Bi- but of weakness and inability to police, as well as paramilitary col and Samar are also under de get the ruled to voluntarily and "death squads" in Negros. In the facto martial law. peaceably concede to its evil reign. interests of the hacienderos, the In the countryside and hinter- The foundations of its rule is US-Duterte regime employs its lands across the country, the mili- tattered in crisis. Behind its bar- armed agents to silence the peas- tary rules and there are no laws barity and factitious fearlessness, ant masses and suppress their higher than its command. Under Duterte is deeply frightened at struggles. Over the past months, the National Task Force (NTF) and how the Filipino people will collec- peasant resistance in Negros has its "counterinsurgency" doctrine, tively rise up to bring him down from power and make him account ANG Contents for all his crimes and corruption. The people of Negros and the Editorial: End Duterte's terror in Negros & entire Filipino people will continue Vol. L No. 15 | August 7, 2019 across the country 1 to rise up. They clamor for an end AFP, PNP incurs 43 casualties in Negros 1 to Duterte's brutal reign. They Ang Bayan is published continue to advance along the Negros bloodbath 3 in Pilipino, Bisaya, Iloko, path of resistance. They must Hiligaynon, Waray and English. PH, dangerous for environmental activists 3 firmly unite and further strengthen Ang Bayan welcomes Lt. Gen. Noel Clement, butcher 4 their organizations as their contributions in the form State forces gun down peasant 5 weapons to assert their rights and of articles and news items. Victorious strike in Monde 5 aspiration for justice. They must Readers are encouraged raise everyone's consciousness NLUA, a neoliberal scheme 6 to send feedback and and strengthen their determina- recommendations Pro-peasant bills 7 tion and courage to fight. for improving our newspaper. Bureaucrat-capitalist plunder of the Villars 7 The Party and all revolutionary SONA protests 8 forces are being strengthened. Victories vs. Kentex and OceanaGold 8 They are at the core and vanguard instagram.com/progressiveviews of the struggle of the entire peo- Dwindling resources in the SCS 9 ple. The Party leads the NPA to @prwc_info Bogus Boracay land reform 9 pound Duterte and shatter his [email protected] Dethroning the king of the road 10 fascist fangs. The Party calls on Duterte vetoes SOT 10 the entire people to struggle and end all his infamy and advance the Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee revolutionary struggle to establish of the Communist Party of the Philippines a new order in the country. 2 August 7 , 2 01 9 ANG BAYAN PH, most dangerous Negros bloodbath place for environmental activists n the evening of July 25, several armed men forcibly entered the hut of the IOcampo family in Barangay San Jose, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental. They THE INTERNATIONAL com- gunned down Marjon, a one-year old baby, and his father, Marlon Ocampo, who munity turned the spotlight they accused as a supporter of the New People's Army (NPA). Marlon's wife on the Philippines after being sustained a gunshot wound. Their two other children witnessed the shooting. The listed as the most dangerous Ocampos were the last among the 87 victims of extrajudicial killings in Negros place for environmental ac- since the monster Duterte sat in power. tivists, and fourth for civil- In Guihulngan, Atty. Anthony Barangay Mabato, also died in the ians. Trinidad was also gunned down on said town, after purportedly A report published on July 23. He was among the lawyers ingesting pesticide on July 25. July 30 by the Global Wit- who were maliciously linked to the Another farmer, Reden Eleuterio, was ness, an London-based in- revolutionary movement by the also shot in Barangay Tampocon II. dependent group, exposed group Kawsa Guihulnganon Batok These attacks were the cowardly that the Philippines has re- Komunista. The said group is funded retalliation of the Duterte regime placed Brazil as the most by and operates as a death squad of against the legitimate ambush of Red murderous country for envi- the Philippine National Police. fighters against four policemen in ronmental activists. The re- Wounded during the incident were Ayungon on July 18. port indicates that 30 de- his wife, Novie Marie, and another On July 26, Federico Sabejon was fenders were killed last year, pedicab driver. On July 25, siblings killed in Barangay 3, Siaton. In following 48 in 2017, which Arthur Bayawa, principal of Guihul- Canlaon City, Ernesto Posadas, was the highest ever ngan Science High School, and captain of Barangay Panubigan, and recorded in Asia. A third of Ardale Bayawa, head of the Guihul- city councilor Ramon Jalandoni were the victims were from Min- ngan City Division of the Department also murdered. Barangay Bucalan danao where Duterte plans of Education, were murdered in watchman Andanacio Rosalita was to allocate 1.6 million Barangay Hibaiyo. Killed on the same gunned down by Duterte's death hectares of land to planta- day was Romeo Alipan, a farmer and squad at the Oval Public Market in an tions, majority of which are captain of Barangay Buenavista. The adjacent barangay on July 28.