Emergency responders who were hit by explosives of the New People’s Army during the latter’s operations against government forces last March 2 received indemnification Monday through church leaders.
Residents of Typhoon Pablo (International Name: Haiyan)-hit town of Cateel, Davao Oriental said they were discouraged by a barangay official and an Army officer from joining a rally last month that demanded “fair distribution of food and other relief materials”.
Families of the nine men who were arrested in the March 10 raid of a Davao del Sur police station insisted on the innocence of the men and that they were not members of the New People's Army.
After their successive attacks on police and military troops in Matanao, Davao del Sur, the New People's Army issued a statement saying their attacks were "punishment" for protecting a mining company and criminal syndicates.
Sheena Duazo, spokesperson of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, said during a press conference Wednesday that they would like to put the incident “on record," adding that the case was “part of a pattern of surveillance and monitoring which many us in the progressive group have become targets of.”