The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has lauded on Monday the neutralization of George Madlos, alias “Ka Oris,” commander and spokesperson of the NPA’s National Operations Command and Spokesperson of the National Democratic Front (NDF) in Mindanao and most wanted CPP NPA NDF leader.
“We do not rejoice that a Filipino was killed, yet again, by fellow Filipinos. Nor do we rejoice that superior military action was what it took to stop this man from hurting our people. Not a peaceful dialogue between brothers, but a most decisive show of force in neutralizing a butcher who was directly responsible for so much death and destruction,” Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy Spokesperson for Sectoral Concerns, NTF ELCAC, said in a statement.
Badoy said Madlos had blood dripping off his hands at the countless crimes against humanity he himself strategized and implemented.
The official said Madlos also played a lead role in the recruitment and radicalization of the helpless, the most gullible among us, mutating them into violent extremists of the NPA that brought them deeper into poverty or ended their lives.
“What we rejoice in is that now this terrorist who was a cut above all terrorists can no longer harm the Filipino people. And that his death will send the clear signal to those who persist in the futility of fighting the government that the only sensible option left for them is to lay down their arms peacefully and rejoin civil society,” Badoy said.
“Our profound gratitude to the Armed Forces of the Philippines particularly the men and women of the 403rd Infantry Brigade under the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division–under MGen Romeo Brawner”•the real defenders and protectors of our people for once again putting us out of harm’s way,” she said.
They who fought this lonely war by themselves and who held the country safely in their arms with no thought for their own personal safety-until this singular President created the NTF ELCAC so that now the Filipino people stand united with them in finally ending
this bloody chapter in our nation’s history, she said.