By Rey Anthony Chiu | 10:58 PM February 25, 2024
With the death of five armed insurgents during an early morning fiery confrontation following hours of stakeout in Sitio Matin-ao in Barangay Campagao, Bilar February 23, Governor Aris Aumentado’s wish of zero insurgency in Bohol comes to near realization.
Not really contented with the insurgency-free status which his father’s leadership earned from the Department of National Defense and the Philippine Army in 2010, the young governor realized that insurgency-free still has pockets of armed clashes with the internal security operators and the remnants of the strong Bohol Party Committee (BPC), something that his political critics smear on to him.
What I want is, if we can make Bohol with zero insurgency, then we should not worry anymore, the young Aumentado said during a press conference organized by the Visayas Command of the Philippine Army, immediately after authorities confirmed the identity of one figure among those slain in Bohol as indigenous people’s rights advocate and among the top ranking Communist Party of the Philippines New People’s Army official.
The police as anticrime operators and the army as the internal security operators occasionally sit together to compare notes: the army’s “order of battle,” and the Philippine National Police Periodic Status Report (PSR) to determine the identified insurgents and their aliases, as well as the status as to active, neutralized, to see who they would be looking for.
As to the police PSR, of the five neutralized insurgents in the recent encounter in Bilar, there should be no one else in the armed group left alive.
