Army Corporal Fermin Lindahay, a Higaonon who was formerly an NPA rebel between 2004 to 2006, is killed in action.
FERMIN LINDAHAY. Army Corporal Fermin Lindahay. Photo provided by the army's 403rd Infantry Brigade, Civil Military Operations Command office
58th Infantry Battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Roy Anthony Derilo said the encounter took place in"An initial encounter took placed on July 25, and a wounded NPA was left behind by his comrades surrendered to our troops with his M16A1 rifle, we immediately gave him first aid and is now being evacuated" Derilo said.
"Our Indigenous People are peace loving people, however the NPAs are radicalizing them to recruit their children as child warriors and turning Indigenous Cultural Communities into a guerilla base," Derilo added. "Mt Balatucan is considered a sacred ground by the indigenous people, however since 1980s, the NPAs turned the area into their hideout for training and burial site of fellow NPAs they killed as part of their internal purging . That area has been liberated by 58IB since 2018. The NPAs want to recover the mountain lair for its strategic importance in their extortion of businesses in towns surrounding Balatucan. But we will continue to defend the AD and protect our ICC," De Leon added.
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