Rebel spokesman says Gen. Ibrado overwhelmed by Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal

NPA thrashes military on Parago sexcapades

By RIGOR Q. ZABALA

The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao has twitted the military for including salacious sex tales in its smear campaign against rebel leaders

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has just made official its policy of adding another dimension to its counterrevolutionary war under the mantle of the Arroyo regime’s Enhanced National Internal Security Plan notoriously known as Oplan Bantay Laya II or OBL II, said Rigoberto Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA Merardo Arce Command, in a statement.

Sanchez tagged AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Victor Ibrado as behind this “new parameters” to its “counter-insurgency” program.

After meeting difficulties in achieving its mid-2010 goals (of wiping out the insurgency), the AFP’s black propaganda machinery took off with its rehashed vilification campaign against leaders of the revolutionary movement, said Sanchez.

Sanchez said Gen. Ibrado could have been overwhelmed by the latest showbiz scandal (on the controversial Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal) that he enlisted sex stories about rebel leaders as part of the vilification campaign of the military.

 The new dimension was directly concocted out of the latest showbiz scandal that has since pre-occupied the national mass media. Taking cue from his higher ups, Col. Daniel Lucero of the Philippine Army’s Civil Military Operations Group presented his own “sex scandal and corruption expose,” against Leoncio “Ka Parago” Pitao, Red commander of the NPA’s 1st Pulang Bagani Company in Southern Mindanao, said the rebel spokesman.

“It is quite clear that the AFP has had utilized all imaginable combat, intelligence and special operations against units and leaders of the NPA. They have killed many leaders and members of militant and progressive organizations and continue to place an even larger number in the AFP Order of Battle. Thus, Col. Lucero’s cheap propaganda gimmick comes as no surprise as he merely rides on a crest of widespread public attention generated by the latest scandal to rock the Philippine entertainment scene,” he said.

Sanchez said Col. Lucero’s “expose” is nothing but a lowest level type of an ill-conceived character assassination scheme.

The AFP psychological operation run alongside its murderous campaign of OBL-mandated extrajudicial killing that has victimized hundreds of activists, unarmed civilians and non-combatants that included Ka Parago’s daughter Rebelyn. This latest smear campaign only succeeds in showcasing heights of desperation that has shaken the AFP as a result of the monumental failure of Oplan Bantay Laya 1 and 2, said Sanchez.