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BONIFACIO, Metro Manila – The Commanding General Philippine Army, Lt.
Gen. Gilbert I. Gapay congratulates the joint AFP- PNP force for a
successful joint law enforcement operation, which resulted to the
neutralization of top-ranking CPP-NPA-Terrorists leader and two other
CNTs members at Lourdes Subdivision Extension, Barangay Queen of Peace,
Baguio City, today, Mar. 3, 2020.
Identified as Julius Soriano Giron;
Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and a member of the
CPP-NPA's Executive Committee; was served with a Search Warrant Number
6014 for violating RA 10591 (Comprehensive Law on Firearms and
Ammunition) along with Warrant of Arrests for various crimes such as
murder, frustrated murder, arson, and rebellion.
Government forces acted upon the
information received from a member within the said terrorist
organization. While serving the Search Warrant and Warrant of Arrest,
Giron and other CNTs resisted and opened fire against arresting
authorities. Firefight resulted in the death of Giron, Lourdes Tan
Torres, who is also an Executive Committee Member of the National Health
Bureau of the CPP, and an unidentified male believed to be a member of
the National Military Commission.
Joint efforts were conducted by the
National Capital Region Police Office, Police Regional
Office-Cordillera, Baguio City Police Office, Northern Luzon Command,
503rd Brigade of 5th Infantry Division, Army Civil-Military Operations
Regiment and Civil-Relations Service Armed Forces of the Philippines.
“The rebels’ efforts to gain political
power, through their armed struggle, only resulted in violence. This
will never be the solution for our society,” said Gapay. “With Giron’s
death, justice is served. But we must not cease. We must not stop in
uniting against such tyranny, which for so many years, have deprived the
Filipino people the peaceful lives they deserve,” he added.#
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