CAMP CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal—With the arrest of the top leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA), Villarico, Gavino, and David, recruitment through brainwashing and manipulation in the youth sector will be prevented, according to former NPA members who are now working to advocate peace in Southern Tagalog.
Job David, a former NPA captured by the government forces, revealed that the three terrorist leaders were the ones behind his and other students' recruitment to the underground movement, including his girlfriend, Fhobie Matias, and those who are still in the underground movement.
Job was a former student of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP-D) campus when the group of Panganiban recruited him to hold arms.
He also said that some of the recruited students are still in the underground movement, waiting for their fate to be arrested or, worse, be killed in an encounter if they are not rescued.
The past days have been very dark to the communist terrorist organization (CTG) as the remaining pillars were falling one after the other to the hands of the authorities, and are now facing their charges against the people.
As expected, the arrest of some terrorist leaders operating in Southern Tagalog will result in mass mobilization of their sectoral front organizations and the brainwashed members of their mass organizations as their hopeless move and old tactics to call for the release of their leaders.
It can be recalled that Wigberto Villarico, the acting chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and two high-ranking NPA terrorist leaders, Gavino Panganiban and Maritess David, fell into the hands of the authorities in law enforcement operations jointly conducted by the Army's 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) and the Southern Police District (SPD) in separate occasion in Metro Manila for crime of kidnapping with murder, murder, attempted murder, and violation on the comprehensive law on firearms and ammunition respectively.