FORMER COMMUNIST HOTBED IN NORTHERN AURORA PREPARES FOR A GRAND PEACE RALLY

BALER, AURORA – The former communist hotbed in Northern Aurora, municipality of Dilasag, is being prepared by the citizenry for the upcoming grand peace rally scheduled on December 18, 2009, tomorrow, declaring that the municipality is already insurgency free after decades of Communist oppression. After the Aurorans witnessed the successful Peace Rally in Dipaculao, Aurora last November 27, 2009, the peace rally craze became a phenomenal event and became the talk of the town in the eight municipalities of Aurora. The people of Dilasag are proud because they are the 1st municipal in Northern Aurora to declare Insurgency Free.

LTC ESCARCHA said that the Peace Rally in Dilasag will be more exciting compared to the town of Dipaculao and the people are hoping that they will be heard in the entire province and the whole country as well. “This time, it is purely the people’s initiative to hold this kind of event especially in all the preparations and we are glad that the advocacy for peace made the Aurorans realized that they have the power to defeat that communist menace”, LTC ESCARCHA added. Recently, the unit was able to locate two separate arms cache in Northern Aurora collecting ten (10) M16 Rifles and two (2) Claymore mines which the NPA bandits buried and hopelessly abandoned due to leadership crisis, demoralization and lack of support from their former mass bases. During the first quarter of this year, there are about more or less sixty (60) regular Communist Terrorist belonging to the North Platoon APCOM now downgraded and became SPP (Sangay ng Partido sa Platun) Norte operating in Northern Aurora and dramatically declined in the last quarter to only six (6) regular members who already fled to nearby Province. One significant factor for their mass surrender was the involvement of the populace in the anti insurgency campaign especially in the town of Dilasag where the local government of Dilasag led by their Mayor, Hon. Victor B. Briones, stood up against the NPA Bandits through information drive to the citizens.

LTC ESCARCHA said that the real essence of peace rally is not just a clamor for peace and prosperity but the power of persuasion of the people of Dilasag for the remaining NPA to return to the mainstream society. “We are hoping that this Christmas season, they will return to their families safe and secured and everybody will be happy” LTC ESCARCHA added.