The National Democratic Front, the political arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has ruled out “localized peace talks,” the government’s preferred method of negotiations to deal with the decades-old communist insurgency.
A protracted war alongside protracted negotiations. Malacañang suggested on Monday this communist guerrilla strategy, rejecting rebel claims that the Aquino administration was derailing the search for an end to the world’s longest-running Maoist insurgency.
As far as communist rebels in the Cordilleras are concerned, the prospect of forging a peace agreement with the Aquino administration is bleak, citing the government’s failure to implement an initial accord on respect for human rights and recent air strikes that left two teenagers wounded.
The “devils” took her son away, and Evelyn Pinated, mother of slain policeman, PO2 Elmark Rodney Pinated, wants them crushed.
Malacañang on Tuesday expressed outrage over the killing of eight policemen by a rebel landmine in Cagayan on Monday, saying this was a violation of international humanitarian law and treaty, and the convention banning the use of the explosive devices.
Two days after Abu Sayyaf gunfire mowed down seven Marines on southern Jolo Island, a landmine planted by communist rebels killed eight policemen on their way to a medical examination in the north of the country.
Two militiamen abducted by the New People’s Army have been released in Surigao del Sur, the military said.
The Communist Party of the Philippines ordered its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to “strike at” Philippine military units allegedly “engaging in intimidation against the people.”
The New People’s Army (NPA) are allegedly holding seven policemen escorting four barangay (village) captains who they claimed were out to
buy votes for a congressional candidate in the village of Paquibato, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday.
Three Marines were wounded during a firefight with communist rebels in Gingoog City Saturday morning, a military official said.
New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas killed two soldiers and two militiamen, and wounded eight others in separate attacks Thursday on security teams delivering computer equipment for Monday’s elections, officials said.
The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Southern Mindanao said Arakan Valley town policeman Police Officer 3 Maula Ali will be freed today (Wednesday) in an undisclosed area in the province.
The communist New People’s Army (NPA) on Sunday announced that it had confiscated nearly 100 sacks of rice from suspected political operators of local candidates during the past three weeks as part of its stepped-up campaign against vote-buying in the May 13 polls.
