CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City - The communist NPA terrorists (CNTs) added another atrocity to their long list of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (HR/IHL) violations upon the discovery of the remains of five individuals who were executed by their members.
The AFP earlier condemned the execution of two (2) CAFGU members and three (3) civilians whose bodies were found in shallow graves on October 30 in Santiago, Agusan Del Norte.
The efforts of the AFP alongside the local police of Santiago led to the successful exhumation of the bodies of said individuals who were earlier abducted and then murdered by the CNTs.
Continuous pursuit operation is now being conducted to find the main suspect, Myrna Sularte @ Iyay/Edang/Maria Malaya, a ranking CNT cadre in Mindanao. The other suspect, Rolando Leyson Jr @ Edroy/Kikoy, was earlier killed in an encounter with government troops on September 14 this year. His body was retrieved by government troops in Jabonga, Agusan del Norte days later.
This new atrocity against CAFGU members and innocent civilians adds up to the thousands of HR/IHL violations committed by the CNTs over the years as documented by the AFP and reported to the government and independent human rights bodies.
It can be recalled that Brigadier General Joel Alejandro Nacnac, Director of the AFP Center for Law of Armed Conflict (AFPCLOAC) submitted a list of thousands of recorded CPP-NPA-NDF human rights abuses to the Commission on Human Rights. It included 2,443 cases of abuse and HR/IHL violations by the CPP-NPA-NDF from 2010 to the first semester of 2022.
“It is an act of terror that deserves judicial action. It is a crime against humanity that calls for international condemnation,” said the AFP in their statement.
“The AFP condoles with the families of the CAFGU members and innocent civilians who were summarily executed by the communist NPA terrorists in Northeastern Mindanao. As we condemn this atrocity, we also commit our support to the PNP in the conduct of investigation to identify the pe
