Five days before the 46th year anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines, its armed wing, the New People's Army, released its two "prisoners of war" to Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte somewhere in the hinterlands of Montevista, Compostela Valley Province Sunday afternoon.
It will be a merry Christmas, indeed, for the families of the eight prisoners-of-war (POWs) who were captured by the New Peoples' Army (NPA) from August to December this year as the National Democratic Front of the Philippines ordered their immediate release.
The New People's Army's Northern Central Mindanao Command is paving the way for the release of two soldiers they held captive since August this year amidst separate ceasefire declarations of the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Family members appealed to New People's Army guerrillas to release two Army men they captured on December 2 and held as prisoners-of-war (POW).
The passage of a bill mandating the registration of mobile phones’ pre-paid Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card has earned criticisms both from mobile users and sellers, saying it is unpractical and may violate end users’ basic rights such as the right to communicate and the right of confidentiality.