LUPAO, Nueva Ecija - About 800 members and symphatizers of the communist-led New People's Army took their oath of allegiance to the Philippine flag in this "once most organzied guerilla stronghold," on Tuesday.
This as the mass organization formed as a result of several months of military's special operations in northern Nueva Ecija towns, was turned over to the municipal government by the Army's 71st Infantry Battalion under Lt. Col. Melquiadez Feliciano to the municipal government headed by Mayor Richard Ramos.
The mass organization is the umbrella group of the rebel returnees from various villages formed into economic clusters as facilitated by the Army in coordination with different government institutions such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian reform, Land Bank of the Philippines and the local government units.
Of the returnees, Feliciano said, 25 were regular armed members of the NPA while the rest served as the mass based of the movement who provided services, food, monies and intelligence information that made it strong in the past.
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