Thursday, June 3, 2010

Skeletal Remains of NPA exhumed by Army’s Katapatan troopers

47th Infantry (KATAPATAN) Battalion, Camp Gen Carreon, Brgy Libot, Calinog, Iloilo – Acting on a report from a civilian asset and verified through information disclosed by a former NPA rebel, elements of 47IB, 3ID, PA led by 1LT NAPOLEON P ALCARIOTO JR (INF) PA, the Battalion Operations Officer together with personnel from 12th Infantry (CAFGU) Battalion and PNP-Lambunao, Iloilo exhumed one (1) skeletal remains of an alleged NPA member at Sitio Badiangan, Brgy Jayubo, Lambunao, Iloilo yesterday, June 1, 2010 at around five o’clock in the afternoon in an isolated and mountainous area of the said barangay approximately 20 kilometers away from the town proper. Buried three (3) feet below the ground, the decomposed body was placed inside a laminated sack and was wrapped with a textile bandage full of dried blood. Discovered among the remains was a slug bullet of an M14 rifle which may have been the cause of death. The body was identified as the remains of an NPA member who was killed in an encounter with the troops of 47IB last March 26, 2007 at Brgy Sagcop, Lambunao, Iloilo wherein the NPA suffered many casualties and have lost several firearms.

In his statement during a radio interview, 1LT REY B BALIBAGOSO (INF) PA, the Acting Civil-Military Operations Officer of the 47th Infantry (Katapatan) Battalion urged the public to help the Government forces in identifying the body and appealed to the Communists Terrorists that pursuing armed struggle will not promote a peaceful means to solve the problems of our society.

The remains were brought to the PNP Station at Lambunao, Iloilo for possible identification and was given appropriate blessing and prayers by the Lambunao Parish Priest, Rev. Marvin Tabion.

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