Military

My father was tortured, says Ka Emong?s daughter

By GRACE S. UDDIN and GERMELINA LACORTE | Davao Today The daughter of the captive New People?s Army leader Regenaldo Alicaba, Sr. alias Ka Emong said her father could have been tortured during the early part of their ordeal in the hands of the armed men who took them away from their house in Panabo at half past midnight of January 18. His ears, his knees and feet were swollen, recalled Rizalyn Manguilimotan, 28, when he saw his father for the first time at the Eastern Mindanao Command?s headquarters on Camp Panacan.Read on.

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NPA releases Special Forces army officer as ‘goodwill gesture’


Convenors of Interfaith Movement for Peace and the Release of Cammayo and Tumol (IMPACT) welcome 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo (right) during his release on Jan. 6. Escorted by the New People's Army custodial force and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cammayo was released in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, after being held as "prisoner of war" for almost two months. According to the Merardo Arce Command of the NPA, Cammayo was the team leader of the 11th company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the AFP who surrendered on Nov. 7 last year when his unit was ambushed by the NPA in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. His release, according to the NPA regional command, is a "gesture of goodwill" in celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines's 40th anniversary. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)

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Captured soldier Cammayo assures family in NPA video

DAVAO CITY?Captured soldier Vicente Cammayo assured his wife and family he is ?treated well? in a video sent by Communist New People?s Army (NPA) guerrillas to media on Sunday, almost a month after the soldier?s capture in an ambush in a Monkayo village. Cammayo, the commander of the 11th Company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion, also said in the video he was not wounded and that he surrendered to the NPA in an encounter in sitio Amagase of Monkayo town?s barangay Casoon in Compostela Valley province.

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More people in Luzon, Visayas call for a stop to the war in Mindanao

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

People in the Visayas and Luzon are joining calls to stop the war in Mindanao after the peace caravan that traveled the whole stretch of the archipelago for seven days had open their eyes to understand the conflict for the first time, Gus Miclat, the executive director of IID, said upon the return of the caravan here.

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