The difficulty of holding talks with officials of The Netherlands-based National Democratic Front (NDF) has had a lot to do with the rebels’ use of outdated jargon, Malacañang said on Monday.
Communist rebels admitted they have in their custody a policeman and a soldier, who went missing in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley last week.
Cherry Mae Velasco sat quietly outside her grandmother’s house in Barangay 23 Gahub here. A faint smile was plastered on her face while she listened to her younger cousins exchange pleasantries.
The communist New People’s Army (NPA) has called on the people in the second district here to dislodge the over 20-year-old rule of the Garcia political clan, saying it only resulted in the exploitation of the people, especially during the election time.
Military and police units have been sent to go after a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, which allegedly opened fire at the convoy of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona, wife of former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, and killed two of her aides.
Senator Teofisto Guingona III blamed the New People’s Army for the assassination attempt on his mother, Gingoog City Mayor Ruth de Lara Guingona on late Saturday.
The New People’s Army has captured two police officers and seven militiamen in the Caraga Region, in separate instances, in the past days.
At least 113 persons were killed while 262 others were hurt by landmines and improvised explosives devices (IEDs) set off by the New People’s Army (NPA) over the past decade, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Sunday.
An alleged communist rebel was killed in an encounter with Army soldiers in Paranas town, Samar past noon on Monday.
The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao on Sunday said it has ordered the release of Police Officer 3 Ruben Nojapa, who was “arrested” by New People’s Army rebels on March 18 during a raid on a village of Nabunturan, Compostela Valley.
Communist rebels on Thursday freed the soldier and the policeman they took into custody in Laak, Compostela Valley, over a month ago, a military official said.
The military said on Thursday that communist insurgents in Eastern Samar have been demanding as much as P1 million in campaign fee from each of the gubernatorial candidates to allow them to campaign in “red” or communist rebel-infiltrated areas.
Suspected New People’s Army rebels burned down heavy equipment owned by a quarry company in Rodriguez, Rizal, on Sunday afternoon, the regional spokesman of the military’s Southern Luzon Command, said on Monday.
