Over the past few months, the efforts of the Armed Forces of the Philippines had been bearing fruit as the groups of Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army/National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) have been neutralized and are now scattered to small teams as leaders are being taken down one after another.
Just recently, another high ranking official of the Reds had been killed during a recent encounter in Borongan, Eastern Samar last January 6.
Martin Colima, also known as alias “Moki,” the secretary of the sub-regional committee-Sesame, Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee in Eastern Samar engaged in a firefight with members of the 78th Infantry Battalion (78IB) in Barangay San Gabriel who were then conducting a combat operations.
“The rebels retreated, leaving behind their slain leader. The soldiers seized a .45-caliber pistol and seven backpacks containing revolutionary documents and personal belongings,”Capt. Jefferson Mariano, chief of the Army’s 8th Infantry Division.
In a statement, Lt. Col. Allan Tria, chief of the 78IB, said Colima and his group were behind several terrorist activities that occurred in Eastern Visayas. This includes the death of six soldiers of the 14IB and the wounding of 20 others during an encounter in nearby Barangay Pinanag-an in 2019.
Colima also has pending cases of murder, attempted murder, frustrated murder and robbery filled in different courts and is believed to be the mastermind of an ambush in Barangay Libuton in 2019 that killed a policeman and three civilians. Twelve civilians including a minor and a baby were wounded in the attack, according to the military.
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