A NEW People’s Army (NPA) commander accused their former comrades for throwing her fiance into a ravine after she was killed in a gunfight, a military official said Tuesday.
A certain “Ka Prats” returned to the fold of the law because of what a former comrade did to the body of alias “Ka Cyril” who happened to be his fiancee.
The remains of Ka Cyril, a five-month-pregnant NPA rebel, according to Prats was thrown by her comrades into a ravine after a firefight in a remote village of Impasugong, Bukidnon.
“The ruthless acts of the NPA terrorists triggered him (Ka Prats) to surrender,” said Army’s 4th Infantry Division public affairs chief Major Rodulfo Cordero.
He said Robert Bangcong alias Prats was a vice commander of SRSDG MTJ, Sub-Regional Committee 1 (SRC1), Northern Central Mindanao Region Command (NCMRC) and a resident of Carp Village, Brgy Umagos, Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental.
“Inhuman leadership of the godless Communist movement triggered him to surrender,” said Cordero, adding that Prats surrendered to the 58th Infantry Battalion (58IB).
“His (Prats) surrender is a good development for us, despite several NPA members are now facing charges for violating Republic Act 9851, or the Philippine Act on crimes against international humanitarian law, genocide, and other crimes against humanity, he still voluntary surrender,” Cordero said.
On September 2, according to Cordero through Bukidnon’s Provincial State Prosecutor Rommel Alonto filed the case of private complainants and their families filed three cases against 22 suspects who allegedly committed several atrocities, including killing and destroying properties, on three separate occasions.
The former rebel commander brought with him his AK47 rifle and live ammunition, and handed these over to the command group of 58th IB.
It can be recalled that the government troops had an encounter with the NPA last August 14 in Barangay Bal-ason, Gingoog City which resulted in the death of “Ka Cyril”.
According to him, he got into a heated argument with an alias “Jackem”, and pointed his firearm at him when the latter ordered that “Ka Cyril” be thrown into a ravine.
“I am not angry with the soldiers for killing my fiancée, what I can’t accept is the decision to throw the cadaver into the ravine instead of leaving or hiding it
“It is very disrespectful, especially on my part,” Cordero said, quoting the statement of “Ka Prats”.
Meanwhile, 58IB commander Lt. Col. Ricky L Canatoy welcomed the new rebel returnee, and encouraged the remaining NPA members to abandon the armed struggle.
“To alias Prats, we extend our deepest condolences to what had happened to his wife,” Canatoy said adding if only the NPAs permitted her to rest and go back to mainstream society, we could avoid this kind of unnecessary sacrifices of lives,” he said.
“To the remaining NPAs It is a high time for you to leave the terrorist group and avail the government’s Enhanced Comprehensive and Local Integration Program (ECLIP),” he said.
“Rest assured that the Philippine Army will assist you as you start your new life in mainstream society,” said Canatoy.
“Ka Prats” is now undergoing custodial and stress debriefing at the headquarters of the 58th IB prior to his enrollment to ECLIP, Canatoy said
“Our deepest condolences to what had happened to his wife,” said Canatoy,” Canatoy said. (Ben Balce with a reports from Vincent Philip S. Bautista/PIA-10)
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