Communist terror plot targets 14 WV towns
Internal security operations are tightened in fourteen towns of Western Visayas following verified information of its inclusion in the "Oplan Sabotage" of communist terrorists New People's Army (NPA).
A total of six and not four as earlier reported are in the Province of Iloilo, three in the Province of Antique, three in the Province of Capiz and two in Negros Occidental.
In a report, Captain Lowen Gil Marquez, Commanding Officer of the 32nd Civil Relations Service of the Armed Force of the Philippines (AFP) disclosed the target towns in Iloilo as Miag-ao, Guimbal, Alimodian, Januiay, Calinog and Lambunao.
As such, Captain Marquez confirmed heightened AFP watch here with government forces in these towns on alert. "Oplan Sabotage" as designed by the national communist hierarchy is out to implement burning and bombing of towers of cellular phone companies for failing to heed extortion demands.
"Among the stated municipalities, they will chose one," Captain Marquez told The News Today (TNT) "so the AFP is on alert monitoring the terrorist movement to preempt and prevent them from destroying people's infrastructures that stand for progress and development."
In Antique, targets are cell site towers in San Remegio, Valderrama and Sibalom, municipalities of Tapaz, Dumalag and Maayon in Capiz and the towns of Himamaylan and Escalante in Negros Occidental.
The NPAs, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has since been tagged as those responsible in terroristic acts of the party. From extortion activities to harassment of locals, the AFP here intensified its watch on said criminal acts of the NPAs operating in the region even as villages earlier feared to be NPA-strongholds have openly denounced the communist group.
"Oplan Sabotage" had a Globe cell site tower burned and bombed in Tubungan, Iloilo some two weeks after the AFP got hold of subversive documents laying down said plan.
To recall, government forces managed to take over an NPA camp in Calinog, Iloilo where among the recoveries are "Oplan Sabotage" paperworks.