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NPA in Mindanao effectively uses indigenous weapons in waging people’s war
The use of indigenous weapons in combination with modern firearms is one of the prominent characteristics of waging people’s war. This way, the armed revolutionary movement is able to inflict maximum damage on the enemy by maximizing the masses’ wealth of knowledge, limited resources and readily available materials.
Red fighters from Front 6 of the North Central Mindanao Region (NCMR) demonstrated this quality when they annihilated a column of fascist soldiers on May 30, 2008 using automatic rifles, explosives and suyak or punji sticks—sharpened wooden or bamboo stakes laid down as booby traps along their targets’ possible path or areas of maneuver.
The soldiers were part of more than 200 elements of the 29th IB that descended on a cluster of barrios in San Fernando, Bukidnon. They had come from Pangantucan town where they had been conducting military operations for two weeks. After keenly observing the movements of the reactionary troops, the NPA command identified which advancing column to ambush.
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