CPP vows to 'dismantle' anti-environment companies
On the eve of its 43rd anniversary, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) vowed to “arrest” landlords and destroyers of the environment while continuing to push the “people's war.”
The CPP's vow to go after destroyers of the environment came days after floods brought by tropical storm Sendong (Washi) and blamed on rampant illegal logging and mining activities devastated Mindanao and Visayas, leaving more than 1,000 dead.
"We must arrest and try landlords who violently oppose land reform, the human rights violators, the plunderers, drug lords and enemy spies,” the CPP said in a statement on its website Sunday.
“We must interdict and dismantle enterprises that violate the laws and regulations of the people’s government and destroy the environment and agricultural production, plunder natural resources and prevent land reform and national industrialization," it added.
Several groups, including left-leaning militants, had partly blamed large-scale logging and mining for the Sendong tragedy.
The CPP also vowed to "intensify the people’s war" and accelerate efforts to fulfill the plan to advance from the strategic defensive to the strategic stalemate.
"We must carry out the tactical offensives to deliver lethal blows to the enemy, increase our NPA (New People's Army) fighting units, carry out land reform, build mass organizations and organs of political power and create new guerrilla fronts," it said.
Also, it vowed to encourage workers and the educated youth to join the people’s army or render rural service.
Landmines
The CPP also indicated its armed wing, the New People's Army, will continue to use landmines against the military. It said it must prevent enemy intrusions into the guerrilla fronts through ambushes and other actions, "including sniper fire, grenade attacks, mortar and land mines."
"We must redeploy some cadres and weapons from one region to another in the communist spirit of the relatively stronger helping the relatively weaker. We must recognize the uneven development of our revolutionary forces and decide how the stronger forces in a region help weaker ones in other regions," it said.
"We must destroy the transport and supply lines and depots of the enemy. We must give the enemy forces no rest by launching attacks on their camps and detachments whenever possible, even at night. When enemy personnel hide in fortifications, we can wait for them to take the road and expose themselves to our attacks," it added.
The military has repeatedly accused the NPA of violating the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, which the communist group signed in the 1990s, for its continuous use of landmines. — KBK/HS, GMA News
The CPP's vow to go after destroyers of the environment came days after floods brought by tropical storm Sendong (Washi) and blamed on rampant illegal logging and mining activities devastated Mindanao and Visayas, leaving more than 1,000 dead.
"We must arrest and try landlords who violently oppose land reform, the human rights violators, the plunderers, drug lords and enemy spies,” the CPP said in a statement on its website Sunday.
“We must interdict and dismantle enterprises that violate the laws and regulations of the people’s government and destroy the environment and agricultural production, plunder natural resources and prevent land reform and national industrialization," it added.
Several groups, including left-leaning militants, had partly blamed large-scale logging and mining for the Sendong tragedy.
The CPP also vowed to "intensify the people’s war" and accelerate efforts to fulfill the plan to advance from the strategic defensive to the strategic stalemate.
"We must carry out the tactical offensives to deliver lethal blows to the enemy, increase our NPA (New People's Army) fighting units, carry out land reform, build mass organizations and organs of political power and create new guerrilla fronts," it said.
Also, it vowed to encourage workers and the educated youth to join the people’s army or render rural service.
Landmines
The CPP also indicated its armed wing, the New People's Army, will continue to use landmines against the military. It said it must prevent enemy intrusions into the guerrilla fronts through ambushes and other actions, "including sniper fire, grenade attacks, mortar and land mines."
"We must redeploy some cadres and weapons from one region to another in the communist spirit of the relatively stronger helping the relatively weaker. We must recognize the uneven development of our revolutionary forces and decide how the stronger forces in a region help weaker ones in other regions," it said.
"We must destroy the transport and supply lines and depots of the enemy. We must give the enemy forces no rest by launching attacks on their camps and detachments whenever possible, even at night. When enemy personnel hide in fortifications, we can wait for them to take the road and expose themselves to our attacks," it added.
The military has repeatedly accused the NPA of violating the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, which the communist group signed in the 1990s, for its continuous use of landmines. — KBK/HS, GMA News
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