Despite the declaration of the fascist AFP’s 8th Infantry Division in October 2025 that it would end the revolutionary movement throughout Eastern Visayas by the end of 2025 through “Operation Clean Eastern Visayas”, the New People’s Army (NPA) wiped out at least seven fascist troops in several armed offensives.

On December 15, 2025, an NPA unit ambushed 19th IB troopers operating in Barangay Poponton, Las Navas killing two fascist soldiers and wounding several others. Another NPA–Northern Samar unit earlier thwarted the 19th IB’s attempt to overrun the guerrilla army’s camp in Barangay Gusaran, Silvino Lobos on December 10, 2025 killing a fascist soldier while a Red fighter was martyred in the battle.

Earlier last year, the NPA provincial command reported its active defense against a 37-man 19th IB unit that attempted to attack the NPA camp in Barangay L. Empon, Las Navas on July 22, 2025. In the battle, at least four 19th IB troopers were killed, while the NPA unit suffered no casualties.

NPA Northern Samar spokesperson Ka Amado Pesante stressed that these military actions prove the NPA’s continuous foiling of the fascist military’s all-out war and added that these victories had the peasant masses’ indispensable deep support.

Unable to destroy the revolutionary movement in the region, fascist troops of the AFP continue to heap abuses and other human rights violations against the peasant masses in Samar. They train their weapons against unarmed civilians, particularly children. In a village in San Jose de Buan town, fascist soldiers from the 46th IB fired an M203 grenade and shot two young siblings. The two were hauling charcoal to sell when they encountered three soldiers who suddenly opened fire at them.

The younger sibling was hit in the chest, hand, and foot and was left at the scene of the shooting. The family never knew of the still missing child’s condition. The older sibling managed to escape unharmed.