Ka Bok’s death long wanted by people he terrorized: ex-cadre

MANILA – A historical cadre of the Communist Birthday party of the Philippines-Recent Folks’s Military (CPP-NPA) said the neutralization of Menandro “Ka Bok” Villanueva is long previous due and has long been wished, most namely by the folks he unnerved.

In an announcement issued on Wednesday, Noel “Ka Efren” Legaspi refuted the claim of Marco Valbuena’s CPP records bureau that Villanueva devoted his lifestyles to the oppressed hundreds.

“It will not be fair that everyone Ka Bok’s lifestyles used to be devoted to the motive slack the oppressed and exploited hundreds, but moderately to the terroristic motive slack the CPP-NPA-NDF which is the violent overthrow of our duly constituted government,” Legaspi said.

Legaspi served as deputy secretary of the CPP Some distance South Mindanao Regional Committee and long-time spokesperson of the Nationwide Democratic Front (NDF) Some distance South Mindanao sooner than he returned to the fold of the regulation.

He surrendered to government troops in January 2018 in South Cotabato province along along with his spouse Jeanalyn Defensor Bendalian, after practically 26 years within the communist terrorist organization and availed of the government’s reintegration program.

Futile dying

Legaspi said Villanueva opted to die for the CPP’s futile and lost trigger that is the nationwide democratic revolution.

He added that Villanueva’s act used to be no longer heroism “but an act of stupidity and stubbornness”

“He wasn’t serving the Filipino folks in any admire, as an quite quite a lot of, he sowed anguish and dread within our midst,” Legaspi said.

He said within the guise of nationalism and democracy, Villanueva led the procure collectively circulate in Mindanao for five a long time, and five years ago your whole NPA, in sowing dread at some level of the country.

“They murdered civilians, burned properties and equipment, extorted money, destroyed households, deceived and killed the formative years and the indigenous peoples, robbed government coffers thru their operatives within the Residence of Representatives, and stunted the country’s economy,” Legaspi said.

He said Villanueva possess to be held accountable for the dying of extra or much less 60,000 folks since their so-known as nationwide democratic revolution started five a long time attend.

“Extra so, he would per chance possess to nonetheless pay his piece of debts from the Filipino folks by robbing, extorting, and losing billions of pesos for their terrorism,” he added.

Cooperation of the hundreds

Legaspi clarified that Villanueva’s neutralization on January 5 used to be long previous due because the folks of Region 11 (Davao) and its neighboring regions whom the NPA contributors possess victimized and unnerved, “long wished his captivity and even dying.”

He said here is confirmed by the neutralization of Villanueva that used to be made likely by the cooperation of the hundreds to the campaign of the government of hanging an kill to extra than five a long time of the communist scourge within the country.

“Ka Bok’s dying is a manifestation of CPP’s losing grip, management, and have an effect on over their so-known as “innovative mass scandalous,” he added.

Legaspi said the CPP-NPA also can fair possess previously earned the belief of the hundreds within the remote areas, but they accomplished this thru deception, brainwashing, radicalization, and indoctrination.

“Nonetheless the project now has modified in these areas, the hundreds were awoke and were in a map to search the fair intention of the CPP-NPA-NDF. They already realize utterly effectively that the CPP-NPA-NDF is exclusively utilizing them to near further their terrorism. The hundreds already rejected CPP’s terrorism and one manifestation of it is their participation in neutralizing Ka Bok, basically the most wished communist terrorist in Mindanao,” Legaspi said.

Monumental loss for CPP-NPA

The neutralization of Villanueva is a immense loss for your whole innovative circulate within the country, Legaspi said.

He added that Villanueva’s dying will absolutely damage the morale of CPP-NPA cadres and fighters, as an quite quite a lot of of engaging them because the Crimson’s claim.

“Demoralization within their ranks will spread indulge in wildfires that can absolutely lead to extra defeats on the battlefields and would per chance possess to nonetheless damage their ideological, political, and organizational resoluteness, coherence, and firmness that can end within the resign of the relaxation cadres and fighters of the CPP-NPA-NDF. Ka Bok’s loss of life is tantamount to the CPP-NPA-NDF’s remaining doom in Mindanao if no longer within the total country,” Legaspi said.

Villanueva used to be the longest-serving secretary of the Southern Mindanao Regional Present (SMRC) and one of many end NPA leaders that were working the country led by its founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison.

He used to be killed by government troops in an uncover in Mabini Metropolis, Davao de Oro.

‘Stop fooling folks’

Legaspi urged Valbuena to no longer symbolize himself because the spokesperson of Mindanao “when you don’t prefer to be ridiculed.”

“Yours is the feeble-customary diagram of spreading lies and false news which the Filipino folks had long been aware of. You would also’t fool the folks anymore,” Legaspi said.

“As a change of attempting noteworthy to consolidate and pressure to live intact the morale of your forces, you furthermore mght can fair procure this unsolicited advice from a historical CPP-NPA-NDF cadre, Mr. Valbuena: conclude fooling folks and spreading lies; conclude your terrorism; uncover time and apartment to barter with the government for a political settlement sooner than all of you’re going to be captured or killed. It’s one of the best possibility left so that you just can redeem yourselves. Pity yourselves and don’t let your foolishness and stupidity return to your our bodies. You would possibly perchance likely possess got nonetheless the enviornment to eradicate, no longer by armed terrorism but by aloof manner,” he added.

The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the US, the European Union, the UK, Australia, Canada, Recent Zealand, and the Philippines.

The Anti-Terrorism Council furthermore formally designated the Nationwide Democratic Front as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and separate half” of the CPP-NPA that used to be created in April 1973. (PNA)