Red fighters in Batangas salute Ka Roger
Wearing new uniforms printed with Rosal’s stylized photograph, an honor squad executed a “silent gun salute” at about noon of October 15.
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By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Bulatlat.com
West Batangas—The New People’s Army (NPA) in Batangas offered a “gun salute” to the memory of the late Gregorio ‘Ka Roger’ Rosal at noontime of October 15.
This is in accordance with a Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) directive issued last October 9 to the NPA that all its formations nationwide honor the communist movement’s national spokesperson.
Scrambling to outmaneuver government soldiers alerted by a public announcement of the event, a platoon of revolutionaries under NPA-Batangas walked for five nights to look for a safe place to hold a short program.
The NPA Eduardo Dagli Command’s senior cadre Rodrigo Mabini said Philippine Air Force and Philippine Army troops in camps and detachments in the province have been unusually active starting Monday after the CPP announced the special event.
“They have launched forays into our territories while the Philippine National Police maintained a checkpoint between the Batangas and Cavite boundaries,” he said in Filipino.
After securing the place the NPA guerillas spent most of the morning practicing songs and the gun drills while civilian supporters started bringing in food and drinks.
Finally, at about 10 o’clock in the morning, the revolutionaries started a simple program that featured speeches from various underground sectoral organizations allied under the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
Wearing new uniforms printed with Rosal’s stylized photograph, an honor squad executed a “silent gun salute” at about noon.
New People’s Army guerrillas offer a gun salute to Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Gregorio ‘Ka Roger’ Ros.(Photo by Raymund B. Villanueva/ bulatlat.com) “We are literally surrounded by the enemy and we are very near major highways. We cannot compromise the safety of the masses here present, those living in this area and our media guests by firing our guns,” Mabini explained.
“We are happy we held this program as best we could under our circumstances in honor of the great Batangas native, Ka Roger. He was among those who founded the NPA in this province, aside from being one of earliest members of Kabataang Makabayan (KM, Patriotic Youth), and the re-established CPP in Batangas,” he added.
Rosal was born on April 19, 1947 in Ibaan, Batangas to landless peasant parents. He was a working student—a landowner’s help and a huckster who sold mosquito nets around the province..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
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2 comments:
pagsaludo kay ka roger!
subali't hindi ba't matagal n'yo nang alam na patay na siya? bakit ngayon lang kayo?
"“We are happy we held this program as best we could under our circumstances in honor of the great Batangas native, Ka Roger. He was among those who founded the NPA in this province, aside from being one of earliest members of Kabataang Makabayan (KM, Patriotic Youth), and the re-established CPP in Batangas,” he added."
interesting. kasama pala si ka rosal dito. buti't humingi siya ng tawad, pero paano na ang mga nabiktima?
"As one of the leading Southern Tagalog cadres Rosal was severely criticized and disciplined for failing to stop “Oplan Missing Link,” an anti-infiltration campaign, which the CPP eventually criticized as a hysteria, that killed hundreds of revolutionaries.
"He accepted the disciplinary action against him and was one of the CPP leaders who led the underground movement to self-criticize and seek forgiveness from the victims’ relatives."
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