NPA owns up to raid of Davao Occidental town mayor’s house
By Eldie Aguirre
Communist rebels on Monday admitted that 16 of their guerrillas raided the house of Jose Abad Santos Mayor James Joyce in Davao Occidental and took away firearms.
Communist rebels on Monday admitted that 16 of their guerrillas raided the house of Jose Abad Santos Mayor James Joyce in Davao Occidental and took away firearms.
Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels raided the house of Mayor Jimmy Joyce of Jose Abad Santos town in Davao Occidental on Sunday morning, carting away firearms.
Communist rebels on Thursday attacked a big mining firm in Maco, Compostela Valley, burning vehicles and equipment, police and local officials said.
Benito, Wilma and Joma have been freed. No, they are not the top leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA).
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the government should review the previous agreements on the safe conduct passes granted to communist leaders taking part in the peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), saying he heard it “from the distant past” that the Tiamzon couple was granted those passes.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday said government authorities had arrested the eight-month pregnant daughter of Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) spokesperson Roger Rosal and her bodyguard.
A non-government organization working for children has accused the military of abducting a 14-year-old boy in Magpet, North Cotabato, and later presented him to be a child combatant of the New People’s Army.
Follow the light. The military said on Wednesday the historic signing of the peace agreement on Thursday (Mar. 27) between the government and Moro rebels was a “beacon” for communist insurgents to return to the negotiation table.
The military has a message to communist guerrillas, who are celebrating the 45th year of the New People’s Army (NPA) this week: Happy anniversary. We have your supremo.
Government troops in Negros and Panay provinces are on heightened alert following the arrest of top communist rebel leaders Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria, and in anticipation of the coming founding anniversary of the New People’s Army (NPA).
A bungalow residential house in sitio Bolok-Bolok, Barangay (village) Sangat, had been the safe house of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army leaders Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria for over a year now.
Complacency may have led to the capture of spouses Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, chair and finance chief of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), respectively.
The four rescuers of the Davao del Sur Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) – who were injured in the March 2 landmine blast in Bansalan, Davao del Sur—said they were thankful for the P10,000 cash they got as indemnification from the New People’s Army.
