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Maj. Gen. Arthur Tabaquero, Commanding General of the 8th infantry division (8ID) Philippine army said that the military will continue in its fight against insurgency in the region now that the local and national elections are over.
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Tabaquero was here for official business and caught up with reporters asking about the development of the government's campaign against insurgency particularly in Eastern Visayas now that President's Arroyo's term has ended.
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The general's statement was in answer to a question posed by media regarding the present condition of the government's campaign against insurgency particularly in the Eastern Visayas region. It was the timetable set by the Arroyo administration to quell insurgency in the country on or before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo steps down on June 30.
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Tabaquero indicated that the government's campaign against insurgency has to be continued considering that the timetable was not attained because of the interruption of the May 10, 2010 national and local elections. He claimed that most of the military in the region's tasks were diverted to election-related activities to attain honest, orderly and peaceful elections.
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Claiming success in the military's anti-insurgency campaign in Eastern Visayas, Tabaquero declared that the "momentum and the level of success in the campaign against the rebels should be continued up to that point where the rebels are reduced to an inconsequential level."
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Tabaquereo said that the focus of their campaign will be concentrated mostly in Samar island where the activities of the rebels are still noticeable in a few municipalities, particularly in some interior towns.
He said that last year, his division had 70 initiated engagements or operations against the rebels, mostly in Samar Island, resulting to the death of 12 NPAs, along with 26 others captured and 159 surrenderees, recovery of 145 assorted firearms and the neutralization of some 28 New People's Army (NPA) camps.
Tabaquero also pointed to other notable accomplishments such as the reduction of the previous 14 guerilla fronts to only two, which are located in Northern Samar, even as 140 village in Samar island have been declared "free" from insurgents, a situation which has further reduced the rebels' mass base and sources of their logistics support.
