NPA senior leader Jorge Madlos, 72, was one of two fatalities in an encounter between NPA rebels and government troops in the remote village of Dumalaguing in Impasugong, Bukidnon.
The death of Ka Oris, as Madlos is known to comrades, marks a turning point in the government’s campaign against the 53-year-old insurgency—or so the military seemed to suggest, as it emphasized his crucial role in the communist movement.
“The [rebel] positions were fortified with APMs , hence, we can assume at that time that they were protecting their top leadership,” he said. Brawner identified the other casualty as Eighfel dela Peña of the NPA’s National Operational Command . Madlos was a graduating agriculture engineering student at the Central Mindanao University when he joined the NPA in 1972, a week after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law.
According to Barandon, Madlos was a high-ranking commander of the CPP-NPA “not only in Mindanao. He has command of the regional committees nationwide.”Brawner said: “We believe that with the death of Jorge Madlos we are going to see the start of the end of the NPA and the subsequent downfall of the CPP-NPA-NDF.”
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