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March 30, 2010 Press Statement

NPA claim of killing 6 soldiers in DavOr, malicious


Camp Apolinario, Panacan, Davao City – In an arrogantly joyful mood, the Local
Terrorist Front-15 (LTF-15) of the New People’s Army (NPA) claims that they killed six
soldiers in a clash early morning of March 28 in Baganga town in Davao Oriental.
The claim is a show of unparalleled arrogance and disregard to human lives as
they rejoice with every individual they murdered be it a soldier or an innocent civilian
whom they have victimized.
The 10th Infantry Division condoles with the family of the slain soldier who was
doing his job and laid down his life in service to our people in Baganga. Private First
Class Ulysses Dedumo, a native of Brgy. Cocornon, Lupon, Davao Oriental; the lone
fatality in the encounter lies in state at Angel Funeral Parlor in Panabo City while the
wounded soldier is recuperating at Panacan Station Hospital.
The erroneous, malicious and preposterous claim of LTF-15 mirrors their cunning
and sly methods of deceiving our people in every avenue for their own selfish aims in
projecting a position of strength but in truth is a weakness masked by their massive
crimes and atrocities against the people.
While the communists rejoice in every death of our countrymen brought by their
violent ways, the true soldiers of the people mourn in every life taken from this Earth
whether it is a soldier, plain civilian or an NPA. We at the 10th Infantry Division and the
whole Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) do not celebrate the death of anyone even
that of an NPA.
We value life even that of the opponent as our own and we will do whatever it
takes to preserve the life of any person even at the risk of laying down our own while
the terrorists disregard it by leaving their comrades in the heat of battles repeatedly in
the past.
These terrorists mock at the dignity of their own members by denying the deaths
of their men and if their dead were not left behind, they burry them on shallow graves in
the mountains without the benefit of a prayer from a man of the cloth. Most often than
not, we can find our soldiers helping the relatives exhume the cadaver in order for the
family to provide their kin a dignified funeral befitting a human being.
We take cognizance of the truth that our problem is not won by how many
opponents were killed as the CPP-NPA-NDF do not value life and have repeatedly used
such incidents as propaganda in maligning the image of the AFP and manipulated
previous incidents to arouse people against duly constituted authorities.
Towards this end, your soldiers will continue serving our people as the true army
of the masses, protectors of the citizenry and defenders of democracy as we continually
work towards the achievement of a lasting peace in our country.
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Released by: CPT EMMANUEL R GARCIA (INF) PA


Spokesman, 10th Infantry Division, Philippine Army

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