Scorned Amazon,
escapes her rapist comrade submits to authorities
By CMO Battalion, 8ID PA
January
21, 2011
CAMP LUKBAN,
Catbalogan, Samar – After almost four (4) years of living miserably
under the inhumanity and brutality of the terrorist New People’s Army
(NPA), a disgraced Amazon who was almost rape by her comrades eagerly
decided to exile herself from the group that she sacrificed and toiled
her life by voluntarily submitting herself to the Army’s 34th Infantry
Battalion in San Jose de Buan of Samar province, 3:00 p.m. of January
15, Saturday.
Reports reaching this
headquarters from Lieutenant Colonel William Peňafiel, commanding
officer of 34IB disclosed that a certain Jocelyn Gabin known as “Jane”
in the underground for four (4) years, 20 years old, single and a
local of Brgy. Cataydungan of same municipality is one among the
numerous rebels who suffered in the hands of their own comrades.
Further, initial
custodial debriefing revealed that Jane is a member of Medical team of
YAMBI platoon, under Central Front Samar-1 (CFS-1), Samar Provincial
Party Committee (SPPC) of Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee (EVPC).
According to her, hunger, sleepless nights, anxious minds and
hardships she experienced from the hands of her comrades are just few
among the factors that made her decide to covertly leave the
underground. She said that she was not treated well as what was
promised to her when she was recruited.
Jane also narrated how
she suffered when she was hit by an ulcer and fever that no one paid
concern on her condition. She was even forced to work and walk even
she could no longer stand the pain and the sting of her body.
She even gnashed her
teeth when she recounts the moment when she was attempted to be raped
by her comrades. Accordingly, her life was already destroyed by the
movement and she could not longer standstill if she will be totally
destroyed by his comrades. These further forced her to flee and
returned to the safer place away form the evil spell of the people she
once trusted her life.
Jane was brought to
the headquarters of 34IB complete custodial debriefing then was handed
over to her mother Cecilia Gabin with the presence of Brgy. Chairman
Edusma of Poblacion, Kagawad Ronn Dacles of Brgy Cataydungan and the
local folks who served as witnesses.
Meanwhile, Major
General Mario Chan, 8ID’s commander expressed his admiration to the
bravery of Jocelyn for facing the real terror of turning her back away
from the underground movement despite her safety is at stake. Major
General Chan also said that Jocelyn made a right decision to fully
re-experience her freedom in the open without guilt and reservation to
the people who really desire peace and prosperity.
Major General Chan
once again reiterated his fervent call to the members of the
underground movement to lay down their arms and feel the warm embrace
of our government’s arm whose concern for his people is genuine.
“As I have told in the
past, I am happier to see these people peacefully reaching their arms
to the government for the sake of freedom and democracy than through a
bloody resort of struggles. After all, we are all Filipinos and our
true enemy is the deprivation of our rights, freedom and democracy”.
“While we are busy
reaching out to our people who are oppressed by our natural
calamities, we as you vanguard in the eastern part of our country
assure our people to keep away from harm and danger, either be by the
inevitable wrath of nature or the NPAs that sow terror in expense of
power. We will continue to intensify our operations both in combat
and disaster relief for you to celebrate each day as what is deemed to
necessary”, vows General Chan.